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GottaEat is now available
My first game is now on the App Store! Huzzah! GottaEat is a casual arcade game for iPhone and iPod Touch. It costs a dollar (in the US store). Hop to catch flying insects. Avoid the deadly bees or you’ll … Continue reading
Terrible Ideas: Bread-chucks
Note to self: eat breakfast before doing daily sketch. Pencil on index card. Painted in Photoshop CS4.
Palette knife
Faber-Castell PITT artist pen size-S. Tinted in Photoshop CS4.
The Cleanup Sprint
Coming into the home stretch of THE OCTOBER GAME, I took some time to do a little cleanup. What came before After finishing the level editor, I created the last few stages and played the game through many times, editing … Continue reading
Posted in Technical, iDevBlogADay, process
Tagged awesome-fun-cookies, bugs bugs get 'em off me, cleanup, performance, THE OCTOBER GAME
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Programming Praxis with Code Katas
As THE OCTOBER GAME nears completion, it’s all debugging and cleanup. It can be both tedious and frustrating working on the same codebase for so long. I’ve mentioned before the little side-projects I work on. But there’s another kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged kata, praxis, THE OCTOBER GAME
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The Level Editor Sprint, Pt.4
My third attempt at a level editor for THE OCTOBER GAME succeeded, but not how I expected. As I mentioned last time, the game was feature complete including scaffolding like the Top Scores and Help screens. I’d found creating levels by hand to … Continue reading
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Tagged level editor, small bets, THE OCTOBER GAME
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The Level Editor Sprint, Pt.3
My second attempt at a level editor for THE OCTOBER GAME was a useful failure. A few months after my last effort, I wanted to try a new method of app development. Previously, I tended to write code in a … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, lessons learned, level editor, rework, THE OCTOBER GAME
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The Level Editor Sprint, Pt.2
My first attempt at a level editor for THE OCTOBER GAME was an instructive failure. Writing code is fun and this leads me to jump into projects, then drown in rising complexity. To counteract this, I try the simplest thing … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, lessons learned, level editor, rework, THE OCTOBER GAME
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Emperor Penguin
Faber-Castell PITT artist pen size-S. Tinted in Photoshop CS4.
The Level Editor Sprint, part 1
Early on, I decided the THE OCTOBER GAME would have designed levels rather than random ones. That decision led to significant complexity, here’s how: The core of the game is simple, the player jumps up to hit enemies flying across … Continue reading
Posted in Technical, Uncategorized, creative, iDevBlogADay, process, sketch
Tagged complexity, iDevBlogADay, level editor, THE OCTOBER GAME
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