I have been doing some game design thinking lately and one topic that has been on my mine is villains. What makes memorable game villains? Can an otherwise great game become mediocre if the main antagonist is kind of lame or ordinary? And what traits make the best game villains? So, I started trying to Continue Reading »
In 2014 Casey Muratori started a live stream series called Handmade Hero. I have been following it for a while and I fully enjoy it. He is developing a professional quality game from scratch using no libraries. In the processs, he wants to teach everyone else how to do the same thing. As of this Continue Reading »
Jonathan Blow, the maker of Braid and The Witness, recently spoke at the Reboot Develop conference. The topic of his talk was about making game programming less terrible. He started off by describing what is wrong with the current world of software. He used Adobe Photoshop as the examples by showing how slow it was Continue Reading »
Here is a collection of all the HandmadeCon 2016 videos I could find. Update 9-25-2017: Casey Muratori has released official videos from the event so I have updated the list here. Compression – Jeff Roberts and Fabian Giesen Fabian Giesen’s Blog. Compression Followup – Charles Bloom Charles Bloom’s Blog. Asset Systems and Scalability Technical Direction Continue Reading »
A game made in less than 48 hours for the Ludum Dare 35 contest. You are a new experimental robot that can fire projectiles that shapeshift objects. Use your powers to escape! Game Controls: Jump = W or space barRight = DLeft = AMagic/Weapon = Left Mouse shoots. Mouse Aims Ludum Dare 35 page | Download: Windows
