Everything is moving so slowly! Realistically, this is because I currently have my attention divided in a ton of different directions, between a music project I’m trying to wrap up and a plethora of disparate odd jobs I’m pursuing in…
It will be okay. If I don’t make this one post, it will be okay. If I don’t work on my game today, it will be okay. I have to keep reminding myself. I have to keep telling myself over…
The line between playing games and watching them has been blurred once more, in a rather interesting way, by the huge success of Twitch Plays Pokemon. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Twitch Plays Pokemon is an event which…
There’s a disease that programmers catch frequently: MostGeneralCaseitis. Those infected find themselves unable to concentrate on the task at hand, no matter how trivial, and instead extrapolate outwards from it and try to solve the entire set of related problems.…
I’ve been holding off on writing this for some time. I got Rogue Legacy shortly after its release, something unusual for me, because I wanted to play it as soon as I saw it. On paper it seemed like the…
Either everyone is hounding me for the things that only I can offer or everyone’s being nice because they feel sorry for me. Either I can’t find time to work on the thing I want to work on because there…
Well, so much for completing the entity editor this week. I’ve made some good progress, but, well, suffice it to say that I slightly underestimated the full challenge of building these control panels. There are several behaviors which are going…
Fuck it, writing is impossible. All of the words I have are either dumb and self-indulgent or dumb and overdramatic or dumb and untruthful or some combination of those. I’m not sure what my point is, I am increasingly uncertain…
I finally started in on the entity editor. It’s obviously still got a ways to go, but some important components are in place already. The green bar on the left holds a complete list of all placed entities in the…
Games seldom allow you to experience them all at once or in any order you choose. Though open-world design has become more popular, there are usually some obstacles to exploring the world in its entirety, even if in some cases…
