Still alive
Yup, still going, just not been updating as I’m changing the game engine I’m using. I’m moving from 3D Game Studio to Unity as I prepare myself to go full time indie! Oh yes, no more...
Author: theworm
4. Digging deep
So, just how am I going to create this game world? In a programming and design sense? Programming 1. Randomly generated levels Eager to remove as much labour from this development as possible, I...
3. Harsh Realities
I mentioned in my last post that I had a flood of ideas. Lots of “cool stuff” that could go in. However all this detail was starting to become far too unwieldy, not to...
2. Drilling down
Once I had decided on the basic idea for the game, I needed to think harder about the actual game mechanics. I focussed on the drilling aspect first of all: Scanning – The player...
1. “The name of the game”
Don't worry, I'm not going to be crowbarring in ABBA songs titles each week 🙂 For this first post, I'll talk about which game I've decided to do and why I picked that one...
Entire game creation process – Intro
I'm the kind of person that needs a constant push to get anything done. I do have motivation, it just needs cranked up every now and again. So to that end, and to hopefully...
“Design me a graphics!”
Just taking a broad view of the industry and videogames technology in general, it is now fairly safe to say that graphical fidelity can't increase any further. There are some incremental gains to be...
Gulp! – You swallowed 40,000 times.
I hate Achievements. If there was an XBOX 360 setting where you could turn off Achievements for all games then I would choose it. But there isn't, and you're stuck with them and I...
Games – Art vs Product
This medium is still maturing away from the purely technical games design (racing games, RTS, sports simulations etc), away from the cliched, pulpy, teenage male wish fulfilment stories (FPS, pretty much any Japanese RPG)...
Cat’s cradle
Just a wee update – something to bear in mind for your string table. For those unsure what a string table is, essentially it's an excel spreadsheet file that contains all the text strings...
