Eve DevBlog 26: Inertia
I’m noticing that I tend to start a lot of these updates off by talking about what a weird week it was, which seems like a bad habit. That said, it was still kind of a weird week. I may…
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Eve DevBlog 25: Writing the Angles
Kind of a weird week since I spent all of my Eve time on writing more level flow and story. I know it’s real work, but it don’t always feel like it… Here’s where I’m at. There are four chapters…
Other Lives
Isn’t it strange how complex and overwhelming our feelings about fictional people can become? There is a conflict of impulses: The sympathetic and the dramatic. We want characters to be happy for the same reason we want our friends and…
Eve DevBlog 24: Flow State
This week was mostly dedicated to writing out level flows. I’ve planned out most of Chapter 2 in general terms, and all that’s left to do to complete this phase of Chapter 2’s design is to plan out a few…
Eve DevBlog 23: A Conclusion
Weird weird weird week. Okay, so it started out pretty good actually. I started working on the animation for transitioning from idle to run, and made some pretty decent progress on that front: Not bad for a couple of hours…
Eve DevBlog 22: Frustration
Basically spent the entirety of this week wrestling with AS3’s 3d API. It’s not well documented and it’s not very elegant, but hopefully once I figure it out it will at least be fast. That said, after days of wrestling…
Eve DevBlog 21: Tension
Been working really hard this week but don’t have nearly as much stuff to show for it as last week. It has largely been an exercise in frustration, both in terms of dealing with the infuriating little life things (such…
The Forest for the Trees
I’ve been struggling a bit to find a topic I want to write about this week, and upon extensive reflection I thought it might be a good idea to write about how I’ve been struggling a bit to find a…
Eve DevBlog 17: Tactical Retreat
I said I wouldn’t do this DevBlog update until I had some progress to update. Sorry about that, turns out I was lying. I guess I just took a week off. Not thrilled about it. I’ve been having to think…
Greenlight District
A few weeks ago Steam came out with their hotly if somewhat anxiously anticipated Greenlight system, and so far it’s… definitely a thing? I wanted to talk about this a couple of weeks ago, but at the time I wanted…