You asked for it. We delivered. Cogs is finally available on the Mac in all of its original shiny, high-poly glory! Check out the screenshots in the gallery.

To celebrate the release of Cogs for Mac, we're cutting prices across the board! For a limited time, Cogs for Mac will be on sale at $4.99, half off the base price. We dropped the price of Cogs HD for the iPad from $4.99 to $2.99 and the iPhone/iPod Touch version is now FREE!

If you've purchased Cogs for the Mac and found a bug, please let me know by sending mail to support@lazy8studios.com.

For my third year in a row, the Global Game Jam was an immensely positive experience for me -- an opportunity to meet new people, learn new skills, and see a game design through from inception to completion. I worked with a team of four at the San Francisco venue. Robin Yang and Sara Thatcher focused on game design, UI, web design and gameplay tuning. John le Plastrier and I played the role of programmers.

This year's theme was extinction. Not wanting to take the theme literally, we decided to brainstorm about more exotic ways to interpret the theme. Eventually, this led us to talk about our hopes and dreams and the fear that if our aspirations aren't nurtured, they can go extinct. After a few dead ends in the brainstorming process, this eventually led us to the two-player game that you can find right now at aboutOurDreams.appspot.com. [A warning: you may want to encourage a friend to play at the same time if you don't want to spend the day waiting around an empty chat room. If you don't get properly connected, try pressing the "New Game" button every 15 seconds until you connect.]

When we first created Cogs for the PC, we really went crazy with the graphics. The good news is that the game is beautiful and it ushered in a new standard of quality for puzzle games. The bad news is that a lot of our fans couldn't get Cogs to run on their laptop hardware. That's finally fixed!

I finally figured out what to do with all these lost animals that keep wandering onto my farm.

Last week, Intel invited me to participate in the Intel Developer's Forum and the inaugural AppUp Elements conference, a newly created event to bring app developers together in one place to plan the future of the PC app market. The event was designed to coincide with the official launch of Intel's AppUp store -- basically iTunes for netbooks.

“Summer Lovin’, had me a bla-ast.” We love you guys. Without you, we wouldn’t be able to devote our lives to making great games. As a show of our affection, we’re bringing you the Summer of Love Bundle — 6 award-winning games at 70% off the regular price with no middle-men and no DRM on downloads!

“Summer Lovin’, happened so fa-ast.” The Summer of Love Bundle will only be available from September 16-22, so don’t let this Love slip away.

“Tell me more, tell me more!” If you want to know more about the people behind the Love, check us out at www.theindiebundle.com.

A number of indie developers banded together to declare that today is "Size Doesn't Matter Day." The objective: Dispel the myth that a game has to have 40+ hours of content to be fun. And while I have quite a bit to say on this topic, I think that my fellow indies have already covered it quite thoroughly, so I'm going to tackle it from a different perspective.

If you're a game developer, the truth is that there are simple things you can do to extend the replay value of a game. Here are a few tips:

I just went through the process of upgrading Cogs to take advantage of the new capabilities of the iPhone 4. Since I had such a tough time getting everything working on all of the iOS platforms, I figured I'd make a list of my changes to help out other developers who have built apps based on Apple's OpenGL ES example.

So, you've always had a passion for games. Now you have a few CS or art classes under your belt and you're serious about getting into the indie game development scene. But what's the next step? Allow me to recommend a game jam.

What's a Game Jam? Every jam is a little different, but in general, it's an opportunity for a diverse set of game developers to come together in one place and make game prototypes during a 24-48 hour time window. Most jams cater to all skill levels. In most cases, teams of 4-6 members are randomly chosen at the start of the jam in a way that insures that each team has at least one experienced programmer and one artist.

Award-Winning Puzzler in Touchable High-Definition

San Francisco, CA – April 3, 2010 – Lazy 8 Studios announced today that their award-winning puzzle game Cogs HD will be available as a launch title on the revolutionary iPad. In this groundbreaking game, players build increasingly complex machines using sliding tiles in 2D and 3D environments. New puzzles are unlocked by building contraptions quickly and efficiently. Players can work their way through more than 50 unique puzzles in three different gameplay modes.