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Costikyan, Indie Game Funding and Dragon Quest VIII

Game development rabblerouser Greg Costikyan puts his money where his rants have been and quits his job at Nokia in order to focus on a company that funds independant game development! He's blogging the process and it'll be great to watch how he does. I wish him luck and look foward to his company's success. You can read about Greg and his new company: Manifesto Games at his weblog.

In other news, you can register with Square Enix to get a demo of their new RPG: Dragon Quest VIII for PS2I. If you reccomend a friend you can get a free slime key chain! Neat! I stopped playing Dragon Quest after part III on the NES, but have been eagerly awaiting part VIII as it literally looks like an Akira Toriyama comic brought to life. I don't play many RPGs these days but I'll be ponying up for this one.

Posted by Paul Bellezza on September 28, 2005 10:16 AM |

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Great to see Greg putting his money where his mouth is! We'll see what he makes. At least an experimental stab at next-gen game distribution! Hurrah!

Posted by: Justin Hall [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 28, 2005 10:52 AM

Greg seems to be on the right tip...good luck to him.

Thanks for the DQ link, I'm a Dragon Warrior(quest) junkie, I'm excited to see how it translates to current gen tech.

Slime key chain, so cool...

Posted by: SEDinehart | September 28, 2005 11:52 AM

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