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A narrowing of focus

Jason Ward — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:20:26 +0000

Over the past few years we’ve covered a fairly broad range of topics on this site, blogging about anything even tangentially related to the Games Industry. At the same time we’ve provided period reviews of titles both big and small on all platforms. Heck, we’ve even covered Industry Events such as E3, E for All and others, with our team of…well, admittedly lazy but quite zealous geeks marauding about assorted booths taking pictures of scantily clad babes, playing stuff that hasn’t been released and generally having a good time.

But the raison d’etre of the Ugly Baby Studios team has always been the development of fun ideas, especially those relating to games and animated shorts. We’ve participated in (and actually did pretty well at!) film festivals with ridiculously short deadlines, we’ve worked on Mod projects, and generally had a good time doing all of it. Now it’s getting a little more serious, and so we’re honing in the focus of both our team and our site. As we move forward from now, we’re zooming in on Independent Games, with a special focus on XNA and Xbox Live Community Games (XBLC), which may just be the most significant turn to ever hit a games console or the Indie Developer scene. We’ll have some announcements coming a little further down the pike with regards to this topic.

As always, UBS will remain a blog, and as such we’ll do periodic reviews, though we’ll focus these on Indie Games (or their demos if we’re too cheap to buy the full game). We’ll blog about tools and techniques that you can use in your own Indie Games, and we’ll interview and have conversations with other Independent Development teams who’re working on their breakaway masterpieces as we speak. Any way you slice it, though, this narrowing of focus and reinvigoration of purpose will enable us to deliver a superior experience as we move forward, and we hope you’ll join us.

If there’s something specific you’d like to see covered, by all means let us know! We’re always open to hearing from you and believe me, we read every email we get from those who feel the need to drop us a line. If we can make your experience on the web a better one, don’t hesitate to tell us how.

A new year, a new look!

Jason Ward — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:32:24 +0000

I know, I know, we JUST changed the look. It’s a bit soon to be making the change, but we felt that the new look, while a pretty good improvement over the old one, just wasn’t quite popping for us. Consequently we’ve moved onward, upward, forward, and here we stand. Whaddya think?

And we’re back!

Jason Ward — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:49:52 +0000

So, you can probably tell that a couple of things have happened. First off, we’re back. Yay us! Second, the site’s different now…like WAY different. We’ve taken an exciting plunge and dumped our previous content management system, Joomla, in favor of the vastly superior WordPress blogging system. For our needs, WordPress is simply a better fit and offers far more features with a great deal less management hassle, and we’re excited to be joining the very large community of WordPress bloggers out there.

Obviously enough, the site’s not quite finished, yet here we are live before the world. We’ve been working through the migration process for the last several days and were very nearly complete when yesterday, unexpectedly, the Joomla database simply crashed. On the bright side, we’d already exported the entire database a couple of weeks back and so we’re in the clear as far as content goes. User accounts weren’t as lucky, but you’re always free to register with the new system, which I think you’ll find is superior to the old in countless ways.

So without further ado, welcome to the newly revised Ugly Baby Studios site. We’ll be busy from here on out, so stay tuned!

Forgive the mess…

Jason Ward — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:58:46 +0000

UPDATE: What you see now is close to the final new look of the site. Expect a few tweaks here and there, as well as a regular addition of new content going forward. Welcome back!

Previously on Ugly Baby Studios:

After a long hiatus this year, we’re finally preparing to rebuild, revise and relaunch the Ugly Baby Studios website. Fear not–the look you see today is not final, but lookout for our new face in the next 48 hours!

I’m heading out the door to E3–excuse me, E for All–and will have new info, new…news, and an all new look for an exciting new year!

Welcome to Ugly Baby Studios

Jason Ward — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:00:42 +0000

After somewhat of an extended “hiatus”, the UBS team is returning to the web. In the coming weeks you’ll see our new site evolve into a busy community with news, updates on our projects, artwork and tons of
discussion on all aspects of game and animation development.

New to the site, we’ll be talking about and promoting our Film Projects, which is a new passion that’s taken root in the UBS Team. We can’t wait to share some of our ideas and creations with you, so be sure to check

back regularly! See you soon!

The UBS Team