ProMaRaRo: Revision
I haven’t played the game I drew this week at all. I think that I made some assumptions going into this that have proven to be false. I had assumed that because I spent so much time during the day…
Eve DevBlog 54: Animation System
Last week’s estimates proved to be overly optimistic. The animation system, which I had hoped and expected would only take two or three days, ended up absorbing all of my effort this week. The good news is that it all…
Storyland
Here’s a weird idea I’ve been playing with: A concept of narrative dimensionality. First, take a painting, or a photo, or even a description of a room. This is a moment, frozen in time. It may imply a greater story,…
Fear Itself
What am I scared of? Here’s what I’m scared of. I’m scared that if I miss one post then I’ll miss more. I’m scared that if I let one deadline slip then the concept of the deadline will be invalidated,…
ProMaRaRo 6: FEZ
The world is a big place. And just when you think you’re starting to understand how big it is, you find that the world you’ve been living in is just the shadow of something greater, just a two-dimensional projection of…
Eve DevBlog 53: Making a Monster
This is a kind of boring week to talk about. Don’t get me wrong, I got a lot done, but the stuff I’ve been working on is all architectural foundational stuff leading up to developing a robust and flexible entity…
Idea Man
Sometimes, as a creative-type person, you are going to realize that you have no ideas. Absolutely none. And, when you’re starting out, it’s easy to convince yourself that you’ve run out. You’ve tapped your well. You’ve emptied yourself, and now…
ProMaRaRo Relocation
I think I’m going to shift the ProMaRaRo updates over to Saturdays, since I think that schedule makes a bit more sense. Also this gives me a little more time to explore FEZ, which is a really interesting experience: I…
Driftwood
I can’t think too good right now. –––––––––– When life starts getting difficult to face, it’s a natural tendency to try to section off a bite-sized chunk of self-destruction, to burn a piece of ourselves in effigy. Destroy a piece…
Eve DevBlog 52: Times Past
This week was a music week. I had naively assumed that, because a lot of the music I’d worked on in the past had gone fairly fast and easy, that this track would be no different – oh, it’s real…