I’m going to make a sweeping, possibly inaccurate, generalisation. Modern games are highly derivative, boring, and predictable. They nearly always involve some form of shooting; be it people, robots, zombies,…
Last week a great blog post, followed by a seemingly innocuous tweet from @mysterycoconut, escalated into what is now known as iDevBlogADay. The concept is fairly straightforward; Every day a…
It’s been some time since I wrote an update on my latest game. Whilst i’ve been fairly quiet on this blog, the game has changed a fair bit and, I…
There was a time when anyone who asked me “What will you be in life?” received the rather confident and totally serious answer “I’ll be an Artist”. I studied Art…
Progress on my game is pretty slow at the moment and that’s a good thing. Let me tell you why. Both Star Fusion and Rocket Santa had development cycles of…
Interesting week as always. On the game progress front, not too much has changed, I’m working on the level manager and will then move on to the core level editor….
This week I’ve really worked on refining the core exploration mechanic – there’s still more to do but the experience is beginning to take shape. I suppose one of the…
Project Management – It’s perhaps the least sexy part of independent game design and development. If you’re anything like me, you’ll have struggled endlessly with existing products trying to cram…
This week has mainly been about the game’s theme and artwork style. The blocks you saw in last weeks post were only intended to be placeholders and it had gotten…
Time for another weekly update. Also, I have a screenshot for you this week. So grab yourself a coffee and read on. Carrying on from last week, I’m continuing to…
