Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Episode One

Episode One (Part 1/2)

Episode One (Part 2/2)

Our live development show kicked off on Twitch.tv, and Eric is now working on the game Project Spaghetti two hours a week with a goal of getting something playable by December 31st. Thank you to everyone who stopped by Twitch.tv! Eric, Steve, Bob, Dotty, and B.Grimm will be back again next week to start working on the first game assets. We hope we could give you a few tips on planning a game that you can use when making your own game. For those of you who missed the broadcast, we’ve put the episode, broken into two parts, up on our YouTube page, with links to help you jump around to the parts you’re interested in. The first episode focuses on project planning and contains:

Part One
00:00 Opening Credits
01:04 Animated Sequence
06:55 About the Show
13:08 Morning Power
15:32 Planning is Important!
21:48 The Game Project
23:29 The Tools (GameMaker)
32:29 Planning
36:00 Planning in FreeMind

Part Two
0:00 Double Checking the List
3:02 Making the To-do List
4:39 Using Trello to Manage Tasks
9:29 Estimating
46:36 Prioritizing
1:01:32 A Warning about Tools
1:06:09 Breaking it Down
1:27:27 Priorities and Deadlines
1:31:03 Tracking Time Spent
1:32:33 Making the Deadline
1:34:28 One Step at a Time
1:35:49 Wrapping Up
1:42:07 You Can Make a Game
1:44:29 Next Week
1:48:01 Closing Credits

And here are links to all of the software tools mentioned in the show:

Game Engines
GameMaker Studio – the engine we’ll be using
Unreal Development Kit – a powerful alternative
Unity – an amazing engine that does everything
Game Salad – an easy-to-use tool for developing mobile games
Construct 2 – an intuitive, easy-to-use tool for developing HTML5 games

Planning Tools
FreeMind – the open source mind mapping software
Trello – the web-based to-do list which we’ve made public

Graphic Design Tools
Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator – the design tools we’ll be using
Krita – a free alternative that does a good job of handling spriting

 

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