The bulk of this week was taken up by completely overhauling the game’s tile system. I’ve created a new template for all future tilesets: Because this is standardized, I’ve updated the in-game collision data to match the template, which means…
We are writing the ghosts that haunt us. We write them out onto the page hoping that they might continue long after we have gone. Someday they will haunt the world, but for now they just haunt us when we…
After a bit more programming work, I’ve finally got the core game to a point where I can spend some quality time actually building content. In this case, I’ve been working on building the first areas of the game. Actually,…
What role should frustration have in the player’s experience of a game? It’s a tricky question. For a while game designers assumed the answer was ‘none’, that frustration was an inherently unpleasant experience with nothing to offer, that it stood…
Well I just spent a week getting something I had working before working again. I’m sure this is a common programmer experience but still: Goddammit. The good news is, I guess, that the code is more elegant and straightforward, rescalable…
More than once I get an idea and start writing a post only to realize after one or two hundred words that I don’t really believe in what I’m writing. It’s a concept that sounds logical, and I can wrap…
Something I’ve noticed: While I was working on the final mastering phases of my album, even though it was a lot of work of a sort, it was also a section of the day where I had nothing else to…
Sometimes it’s embarrassing how simple our tastes really are. You know, we can write essays about why we love what we love, what works and doesn’t, about the delicate structure of ideas that play against each other in this particular…
Weird week, though I know I say that a lot. Took a first run at trying to work on AnxEdit concurrently with the game, which worked alright for the first couple of days, while I built out a general task…
Over the last year, I wrote a piece of music each month with the intent of collating all of them into an album. Most of these I’ve put up on the blog as I went, generally as a sort of…
