I started a project ages ago, a game that was to be a shooter intended to help students learn phonics. The ship shoots sound bullets; all the enemies have letters on their ships and are only vulnerable to the sounds those letters make. Some ships are therefore only vulnerable to Continue Reading
My best friend linked me an article in which Steven King talks about opening sentences to books — how important they are, why that is, and what makes some more memorable than others. He spends a long time crafting the opening sentences to his books. It’s a fascinating read, whether Continue Reading
Six years later edit (April 21, 2019): Links to the bundle have been removed. They now lead to a page that seems dangerous. Additionally, I’m no longer convinced bundles are a good thing. That’s another story, though. There are so many game bundles on the internet (thank you, Humble Bundle, Continue Reading
I originally posted this on April 9, 2013 on my blog on Gamasutra. Cross-posting here, as I should have done before. I first learned of Ludum Dare last August. I wasn’t in time to participate, but I was able to play a wide variety of interesting games. That got me fired up — Continue Reading
Poke & itch.io Six years later edit (April 20, 2019): You can no longer download Poke from itch.io. Sorry folks Item one: there is now a Mac OSX build for Poke, the game I mentioned in my last post. It can be downloaded from item two, which is my profile Continue Reading
Another Ludum Dare has come around and once again I have participated. The theme this time was Minimalism, and I did not do as well this time as last time.
One of the things in my mess of being busy in the past couple of months was Ludum Dare, a game jam which is held every four months. A game jam is a challenge in which game developers must create a video game from scratch — concept, design, coding, everything Continue Reading