This has been a productive month, though much of that productivity has been invested into small tweaks and improvements that it’s hard to say much about. As I continue work on this project, I’ve been trying to develop better and…
Solving a problem is one of the most satisfying sensations in the world. Often this satisfaction is preceded by hours, days, months, or years of tedium and frustration as we struggle to understand the problem, collect the tools and skills…
March is over, marking the one-year mark since I started working on this project – a project which was originally meant to last one month. I’m not sure how to feel! Obviously I didn’t expect this game to take this…
Several months ago, I had the idea that I was almost done with the initial vertical slice of the game, and wanted to push to make that happen. Now I’m a month away from the one-year anniversary of the project,…
We educate ourselves in the arts trying to learn how to create better art, but the process of improvement is a strange and unsteady one and the paths we take don’t always lead where they seem to. The main thing…
Almost no actual development work happened over the last month; I left for a trip on the 11th and got back on the 24th, and several days on either side of that were spent either preparing for or recovering from…
For the past few months, the higher-ups at game company after game company have announced that they’re going to be integrating NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) into their games. For those unfamiliar with the concept (probably not as many of you as…
One of the biggest outstanding tasks on my list, from the moment I started this project thinking it was a one-month game jam project, has been that of the first boss. It has come to stand in my mind as…
Last month I said I wanted to get a few enemies done to flesh out these early areas. I also said, somewhat optimistically, that I thought I might be able to do them all in a week – this turned…
You split your brain in two. One half holds what you’re seeing – either through the mind’s eye or through the two normal face eyes – and perceives edge, brightness, darkness, every piece of reality in relation to itself, defined…
