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…
Three times a year, there’s Ludum Dare happening, the event where you task yourself to create a game in 48 hours. That’s a pretty tough limitation! However, here are my personal suggestions and recommendations how to make it.
There’s not much that’s worse than patching your game. Maybe GUI coding. Apart from that it’s a chore. I mean, look: You got a game you thought was complete, functional and an overall aesthetic product you’re really proud of. “Look, ma! I did it!”. And once you show it around people tell you about that…
After development and offering new patches for Fine Sweeper is drawing to a close (which I am really happy about!), I am toying with a couple of new ideas and concepts. Here’s what’s currently on my mind for future games.
This post also appeared on the Ludum Dare blog, but I figured I share it here as well. Since I am planning to record a timelapse of my gamedev for the upcoming LD#33, I thought it would be nice to take a series of screenshots for creating a nice timelapse animation afterwards. I went ahead…
Not much to see here yet. I am still working out the details (this is the only work-out I get), so sorry for disappointing you for now, dear stray visitor to this page.