For reasons some of you may be familiar with, September was a hell of a month. Along with many other independent game developers I was knocked significantly off-track by Unity’s antics, and it’s something of an open question exactly how…
Around the start of July, I went on a trip for a couple of weeks. I mention this to explain why this is another two-month DevBlog: When a trip like this coincides with the start of the month, it’s easy…
It’s been an exciting and frustrating month as I keep running ahead and getting pulled back. This is the first time in quite a while I’ve gotten to focus on seriously expanding the game rather than just refining and polishing…
One of the most hazardous unquestioned assumptions of game design is that a game should be balanced. Don’t get me wrong, it certainly can be an issue if one tool is too strong, or many tools too weak, particularly in…
I find randomness a fascinating topic. Core to many game designs, a hint of randomization can cause the possibility space to explode in many directions, create a sense of mystery and possibility, and convert simple puzzles with straightforward solutions into…
After Slay the Spire released into Early Access in 2017 and was one of the best-designed games ever made, a wave of roguelike deckbuilders inevitably followed. Most of these were, I would say, pretty uninteresting — Slay the Spire excels…
Well, my assumption was that after finishing the demo, I’d be mostly taking the month away from Bound City to focus on other things. That didn’t happen so much for two reasons: First, the feedback from the demo and bugs…
I recently saw this video explaining easy ways to make your game feel “juicy”. I don’t know if I’d heard this specific term used before, but it meant exactly what I would have assumed it to mean: Adding a bunch…
“What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I’m told.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. One of the most interesting and useful angles with which to examine any art is that of what…
Well, first off, apologies on having to make another two-month devblog, and on having not really kept up on other weekly posts. Hopefully, though, what I’m about to say will make up for it: The demo/vertical slice that I’ve been…
