Twitter used to be a pretty safe place for your data, in a sense that you didn’t feel like it could be gone from one day to the next. But thanks to Elon willy-nilly poking at the system, firing half the staff, and being generally disruptive, you can’t be sure that your years of tweets…
The latest Free-to-Play game from Pokémon Go creators Niantic is set in the Harry Potter universe and tries to be more of a game than the Pokémon collect-em-all-a-thon. Does it really live up to its source material and is it more game than Pokémon thanks to its RPG mechanics?
So Jon Blow’s team finally released The Witness, as you might have heard by following any indie game developers on Twitter. Some see it the Best Game Of All Time, others give it 2 out of 5 stars. I will provide my perspective on this interactive experience, one utterly unique because I consider myself a…
Anybody who is creating something is familiar with it. The blank canvas. The empty document with a blinking cursor on the upper left. The baby-blue default background in Unity. The template class definition. The creeping need to procrastinate some more. Underneath my poker face there’s a war in progress, The Urge to Create battles the…
Super Mario Bros 3 is an excellent game. But there’s this one thing that particularly annoys me: Every time you die, you have to wait for Mario fall of the screen, fade to the map and level fade-in. That’s just five seconds but on a hard level when you fail a lot this becomes a…
Another staple of traditional game design is The Key. In my life as a gamer, I have found thousands of keys for doors, keys for treasure chests, keys for locks and even keys for the game itself. Here are my opinions about keys in game design, what they are, where they make sense, when not…
Crates in games are much like a living fossil now; they have been around for a looooong time, and a lot has since been written about crates in video games. There are even art projects about this trope. Everything about crates in games has been said. But not by me. Onwards!
What is automation? Why is it useful? Where can automation help you in your daily digital life? Read on. (Spoiler: Everywhere!)
Tools are an important part of game making. I am not talking about those “big” tools that come with your engine of choice, rather there are many little things over the course of making a game that can be automated. Here’s a little overview of the tools I coded and/or planning to make for myself…
This blog post was also published on the Ludum Dare Blog. You don’t want to read the success stories all the time, right? Sometimes you can learn from something that failed more than from what made it, right? So here it is, the little story of PONY! and how it became what it is. For…