In the newest episode I will go into how stories in games evolved and where I think it will go. I also tell some of my story based game ideas. If you enjoyed or hated the new format I would be happy if you could tell me. Continue reading Devlog 18 – Narrative in Games
This time I focus on a prototype that I build on the weekend (thanks to bittwyst for the inspiration), after discussing what went wrong, I also go over some guidelines to create a successful casual puzzle game. Continue reading Will Glow the Wisp – Devlog 17 – Prototyping a Casual Puzzler
In this episode i talk about how the Unity input manager, can introduce bugs in your game and how non narrative game progression can be implemented in different games. Continue reading Will Glow the Wisp – Devlog 16 – Non Narrative Game Progression
In the second episode we talked about, how to become successful as a game developer, what we tried and where we failed. Listen to this episode here Continue reading Going to the Experimental Game Dev Podcast Show Part 2
This week i did a couple of bug fixes (performance problems) and created a couple of characters. In addition i implemented a pause menu and prototyped some mechanics which i dropped later. In the YouTube video i go over all that and i am talking about how low friction controls can influence other parts of your game (where is it good and what traps to … Continue reading Will Glow the Wisp – Devlog 15 – Frictionless Controls and Characters
I went to the Experimental Game Dev Podcast Show and had a great time. We discussed all kinds of things, related to game development. Starting from my struggles and ending at a discussion about new genres and opportunity for game developers. Listen to the first episode here: http://www.indiegamepod.com/?p=3349 Continue reading Going to the Experimental Game Dev Podcast Show Part 1
In this Episode i talk about how I am planning on implementing the different difficulty settings and go over all the other things on my ToDo list of the second Alpha. Download the current Alpha version here XNA Button Pack 2 Created by Jeff Jenkins (sinnix@360prophecy.com) Hosted on 360prophecy.com Music End of Days by Platinum Butterfly (c) 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) … Continue reading Will Glow the Wisp – Devlog 14 – Learning from Mistakes
In this episode i am talking about what I am doing for promotion and my mistakes. I am also going into the feedback I got so far and talk about future plans. Download the game here: http://www.indiedb.com/games/will-glow-the-wisp/downloads/will-glow-the-wisp-self-extracting-executable XNA Button Pack 2 Created by Jeff Jenkins (sinnix@360prophecy.com) Hosted on 360prophecy.com Music End of Days by Platinum Butterfly (c) 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) … Continue reading Will Glow the Wisp – Devblog 13 – Controls and Promotion
Finally “Will Glow the Wisp” is in Alpha, if you want to download the game you can get it here: On Indie DB Self extracting exe Zip Continue reading Will Glow the Wisp Alpha available
In the newest episode of my Devblog from Will Glow the Wisp i show off the new UI and talk about my struggle in getting the movement to feel just right. Continue reading Will Glow the Wisp – Devblog 12 – More UI and Movement
