In some ways I admire Triforce — he’s an entrepreneur and gives back the the gaming community. Sometimes, I want to introduce him to a therapist. At least he’s honest about his fandom, I suppose. Nontheless, here’s a writeup about him by Polygon.

Looks like it won’t be so hard for indie game developers to find money after all.

Mike Rose of Gamasutra:

The Montreal-based Execution Labs has raised $1.4 million through venture capital funding, and is headed up by Jason Della Rocca, a former director of the International Game Developers Association, Alexandre Pelletier-Normand, most recently head of deployment at Gameloft, and Keith Katz, previously VP of monetization at OpenFeint.

The start-up is offering what it describes as a “first-of-its-kind hybrid game incubator and go-to-market accelerator,” as it looks to make the process of funding and creating games much more manageable for indie teams.

In this interview by Polygon, Jeremiah Slaczka takes readers through 5th Cell’s game development process and discusses the challenges of designing a launch title. Scribblenauts Unlimited may be one of the most exciting games for the Wii U.

Wesley Fenlon:

For 5th Cell, this is new. Though the studio has been developing games for nearly 10 years, Scribblenauts Unlimited represents a trio of intimidating milestones. It’s the first launch title 5th Cell has created, meaning it’s the first time it’s dealt with the headaches and unknowns of pre-release hardware. It’s 5th Cell’s first major console release, in fact: the developer has never shipped a game on a disc. Scariest of all, Scribblenauts Unlimited isn’t just a Wii U game — it’s launching simultaneously on Wii U and 3DS and hitting PC a mere week later.

Listening to Creative Director Jeremiah Slaczka describe the development process, though, those milestones sound more exciting than frightening. And if the Wii U hadn’t come along, Scribblenauts Unlimited may have been a dramatically different game. If it existed at all.

Develop’s Craig Chapple regarding Haunts: The Manse Macabre‘s dire situation:

Taking to the game’s Kickstarter page to reveal the bad news, creator Rick Dakan said the principal cause for the “dire condition” of the project was that there were no longer any programmers working on it.

The game’s lead programmer has moved on to work back at Google, as had previously been planned, and no longer had enough spare time to make progress on the title.

The second programmer on the project also quit the game entirely to take another job, with Dakan claiming the developer no longer wanted to work on the title in his spare time.

Here’s hoping they find new developers quickly. Maybe they should consider backing the What’s in a Game? Kickstarter so they can get beta access to Gameifesto.

Hooray! Internships are popping up in China with the same (if not worse) poor working conditions as America! How nice of Nintendo to help children around the world advance their careers in such an inspiring way.

Game Rant’s Ben Kendrick:

According to a segment aired during the “Voice of China” program on China National Radio, Foxconn utilized children ranging in age from fourteen to sixteen in their Wii U production. The children were brought into the company through High School-level internship programs where they could receive credit toward their diplomas for work in the factories. However, many of the interns have reported that they were strong-armed into working lengthy overnight hours and/or physically demanding labor – threatened with the loss of their internship (as well as school expulsion) if they didn’t comply.