Tales of the Rampant Coyote: Small Business Blog of the Day

A few days ago, we highlighted Green Cine's blog that discusses independent films. Today, we found one that discusses independent video games. How cool. So when is the Sundance Video Game Festival?

What it is
Tales of the Rampant Coyote is the video game blog for the video game company Rampant Games. Jay Barnson is the author of the blog and owner of the company.

Features
A great review of independently created video games. Most of the posts include commentary about products, industry attitudes, and personal ramblings that are more entertaining than self-serving.

Favorite Post
How To Sleep Less and Get More Done is about Jay's ability to survive on five or six hours of sleep a night, a critical skill for a video game developer.

"The tail-end of college had me sleeping a lot less as I pulled the late-night study sessions, but the real change was forced by my first career job. As a young programmer for a start-up video-game company. The stories of psycho crunch-mode cycles in the game industry were very true at this company - not because anyone was really cracking the whip on us, but just because we had a stake in the company and we knew the first two games that we were working on for the brand-new "Playstation" game console would be critical not only to the company's success, but to whether or not we had a job the following year."

Further Comments
Pretty interesting blog. Jay once accepted a challenge to completely create a video game in one week. Reading his posts are exciting and filled with drama that only good writing can produce. This is an example of where writing can really make your blog. Jay is very articulate and a pleasure to read, even if the content is way out of your interest.

Tags: video game | independent video game | jay barnson | video games | independent video games

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[Nancy]

Hi, I've discovered your site and will be back to check for updates!
Nancy
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