[casey_lang]

It's fantastic to see this game finally get recognized. Amir is a great developer and it has been a lot of fun to watch the game progress over the past few months.

He's maintained a developer blog throughout the process. It's a really interesting read: http://amirrajan.net/a-dark-room/

I first learned of A Dark Room when Amir presented it to the local Dallas Ruby group. His presentation on development in RubyMotion is worth a read as well: http://amirrajan.net/12k-lines-of-RM/

[Steuard]

Reading his developer blog, I was completely caught off guard when he said (weeks in) that he had only then realized that there was a second phase of the game. Good for him for not just saying, "Oh, wow, never mind!" at that point! (But also, it's interesting that he found the first phase alone worth recreating. It's engaging, but most of the game's depth of story comes later.)