So, this game I’m making…
For those of you who know me as a writer, you may be wondering what I’m jabbering on about when I say I’m making a videogame. Well don’t worry, I am still writing Powerless...
Category: Game Design
Indie games are all the same?
Just a quick post to say I am still alive! Been busy with my daytime work and writing my novel and have neglected this blog unfortunately. Thankfully other people have been keeping theirs more...
It’s a lovely world
I was at the World of Love indie games conference last Friday (25th June) and I have a head full of ideas and thoughts and comments ready to spill out when they are slightly more...
Indies think big! Small.
I know we’ve all been battered over the head by developers (large and independant) telling us that the best way to start making games is to start small, but don’t you just want to...
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...
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...
