Well, I’m done with the sprite shader project – sort of! As you may have noticed, I haven’t announced its release on the Unity Asset Store or, indeed, anywhere. This is because while I did indeed finish the project itself…
As I’ve written about extensively for the last few months, I’m currently in the process of creating a tool to go on the Unity Asset Store. Every tool carries within it a set of standards and expectations. Sure, everyone knows…
Games have a weird relationship with morality. For a while, many were including ham-fisted ‘morality systems’ – absurd contrivances where you were presented with two exaggerated choices, choosing between senseless slaughter and saintly forgiveness, and then assigned to be good…
The ‘roguelike’ genre started, appropriately enough, with the game ‘Rogue’ in the year 1980. Rogue was an appealing but simplistic game, a primitive ASCII-based RPG. Soon more robust imitators came along, extrapolating on its mechanics to make more complex worlds,…
As usual, everything has taken longer than expected. I started with creating the blur and outline effects. There are lots of tutorials and examples for effects like this out there, but none of them were entirely suitable – they tended…
The study of game design is, to a significant degree, the study of education. Much as the joy of gameplay lies in the sensation of learning and practicing, the skill of creating that joy in others is similar to that…
While as an artist I am generally fascinated with the study of technique, and the methods of self-improvement necessary to attain it, I find myself less and less interested in art which exists solely or primarily to be a showcase…
There’s two desires that motivate creativity: There’s the desire to create, to pour a part of yourself into crafting art by some sort of cathartic action; and there’s the desire to have created, to have generated some idea, given it…
Another month, another weird devblog. They keep coming out later in the month as well, so at some point I’m going to have to correct for that and put up an update after just a couple of weeks of work.…
It’s daunting to imagine all the things I’ve forgotten. What percentage of a life gets remembered? A slender one for certain – even the people and events we remember we remember in silhouette, in snippets of noise and face and…
