We caught up with Bruce Chia at the CarneyVale: Showtime booth. He’s one of the four programmers who worked on Showtime as undergraduates at the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab. If you missed the game’s preshow summary, you can find it here. Read on for a peek at the inspirations, problems, and future for CarneyVale: Showtime.

The Penny Arcade Expo is right around the corner, and if history is any guide that means it’s time for this site to start giving shout outs to the PAX 10. So for the next week, your regular posting schedule will be filled with some of the most innovative gaming of 2008 and 2009. We present to you the PAX 10.