Location: Lincroft, NJ
Contact Email: gaiiden@blade-edge.com
Contact Phone: 732.492.5027
Contact IM: darkpylat (AIM), 70449988 (ICQ), Gaiiden (Skype)
Developer Type: Contractor
Developer Interest: 2D action, puzzle, strategy games using TGB

Company History

Blade Edge Software was founded back in 2001. Originally developing games using a home-brewed SDL-based engine called Katana, Blade Edge struggled through three years of development until suspending operations due to limitations with the Katana engine. A year later GarageGames debuted the Torque 2D engine, now fully released this year as Torque Game Builder. Recognizing the stability and cross-platform benefits of TGB, Blade Edge has been working with TGB since its inception back in 2005. Now that TGB is fully released, Blade Edge is striving forward to complete its two current projects and gearing up for future projects.

Current Status

Two internal projects are being developed for release in 2007, both with TGB and both with the hopes of also being ported to the XBox360

Blitz Blox

A furious block-dropping game that pits you against your opponent on the same playing field. Defend your blocks, attack your enemy's blocks. Make use of special blocks to turn the tables. Play against calculating AI or against another player


Galaxy Conquest

Take over the galaxy, fighting for space against as many as 4 players, human and computer. Place your planets to take over your opponent's systems to win in one of 4 main modes of gameplay. Watch out also for hidden special systems, which can both hinder and facilitate your path to utter conquest

New Jersey Developers - Get Involved!

The IGDA's New Jersey chapter gives local developers the opportunity to network, learn from each other, and build a professional community. There is no fee to attend the meetings, and IGDA membership is encouraged but not required. For more information about the IGDA itself visit the main website at www.igda.org

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Develop.Network.Learn.

If I've played it over the past month, it's here. Sorted from most recently played (1) to last played

Drew Sikora has been active in the games industry since 2001, when he co-founded the NJ North IGDA chapter with Darrell Porcher, which has since grown to become one of the leading IGDA chapters in the world. He’s been involved with GameDev.net since 2000, becoming Executive Producer in 2006 and working hard with his team of awesome people to make GameDev.net a valuable resource for game developers of all trades. He’s also worked with Game Institute since its conception in 2001, supporting the growing community, managing live seminars on game development topics by experienced industry members and judging the institute’s regular game programming challenges. His past writing credits include three chapters in Game Design Perspectives (published by Charles River Media), contributing to and editing the GameDev.net Collection series, and well over 100 articles and interviews published on GameDev.net covering industry events and game development topics. Since 2008 he’s been mentoring students attending the GDC as part of the IGDA’s scholarship program. In whatever spare time he has he likes to program small game projects whenever he gets the urge.

When he’s not doing anything industry-related, he can be found practicing martial arts, bouncing high on trampoline or tumbling, doing stuntwork, playing his Playstation3, driving really fast in his car or on his motorcycle, hanging with friends or musing about something on his blog www.blade-edge.com

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