There’s a disease that programmers catch frequently: MostGeneralCaseitis. Those infected find themselves unable to concentrate on the task at hand, no matter how trivial, and instead extrapolate outwards from it and try to solve the entire set of related problems.…
I’ve been holding off on writing this for some time. I got Rogue Legacy shortly after its release, something unusual for me, because I wanted to play it as soon as I saw it. On paper it seemed like the…
Either everyone is hounding me for the things that only I can offer or everyone’s being nice because they feel sorry for me. Either I can’t find time to work on the thing I want to work on because there…
Well, so much for completing the entity editor this week. I’ve made some good progress, but, well, suffice it to say that I slightly underestimated the full challenge of building these control panels. There are several behaviors which are going…
Fuck it, writing is impossible. All of the words I have are either dumb and self-indulgent or dumb and overdramatic or dumb and untruthful or some combination of those. I’m not sure what my point is, I am increasingly uncertain…
I finally started in on the entity editor. It’s obviously still got a ways to go, but some important components are in place already. The green bar on the left holds a complete list of all placed entities in the…
Games seldom allow you to experience them all at once or in any order you choose. Though open-world design has become more popular, there are usually some obstacles to exploring the world in its entirety, even if in some cases…
There’s a danger in getting better at things. Well, there are probably several, but I have one in particular in mind right now. As you improve in your chosen field, art or music or writing or whatever, you gain the…
I really don’t have a lot to say. This week has been entirely spent on slowly writing up and polishing a big chunk of back story. It’s still not quite in a place where I feel comfortable posting it, and…
With game design, as with any sort of design intended for human use, simpler is, generally speaking, better. The history of game design is a history of streamlining and simplifying, merging similar ideas together and glossing over the technicalities. Firearms…
