In any game, the more systems you implement, the more difficult it becomes to maintain a consistent game experience. Games tend to be at their best when they implement one system really, really well, although there are some notable exceptions. The easiest way to describe what we mean is with an example, and one of […]
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Episode Seventeen Episode seventeen of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. This week, for Project Spaghetti, Eric continues the Halloween celebration by finishing off the game’s graveyard level despite a naughty ghost’s efforts to mute his microphone. The video will have annotations to
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We’ve mentioned on the show a few times that overtime can be a troublemaker when using Agile. Not only does it throw off burndown counts (the number of tasks from your to-do list you finish off each cycle), but it builds over time as fatigue, which then results in slower and slower task burndowns. On
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To continue our early Halloween celebration, Eric took a look at three horror-themed games that have been eagerly awaiting his attention. A huge fan of anything that inspires a little dread, he’s hoping at least one of them will produce a few chills. Killing Floor, a co-op focused survival horror shooter, where Eric learns it’s
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Episode Sixteen Episode sixteen of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. This week, for Project Spaghetti, Eric kicks off the Halloween celebration early by laying the foundation for the game’s graveyard level. 00:00 Opening Credits 06:25 Live Show Intro 08:45 Overtime Task Overview
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As a follow-up to last week’s episode, here are a few resources that might help with improving your animations on your projects. None of us at Blue Tengu are experts on the subject, so we’re doing our best to heed some of the expert advice from these pages as we move forward with Project Spaghetti.
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While the big typhoon rolled through Tsukuba, Eric, trapped inside his apartment hoping for clear skies, got down to the business of having fun with four games on an episode of Blue Tengu Unplugged. All of the videos are archived over at YouTube. Beat Hazard, the rhythm-based twin stick shooter. DLC Quest, an action platformer
Episode Fifteen Episode fifteen of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. This week, for Project Spaghetti, Eric prepares the animation for our cowboy to mosey off into the sunset (or an enemy bullet). This episode focuses on the graphical side of things, so
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As we approach our animation tasks, it’s worth diving into a topic that relates to animation, and that’s frame rate, usually measured in frames per second. Literally, frames per second refers to the number of visual “pictures” or screens that are shown every second, and despite our advances in technology over the last century and
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Episode Fourteen Episode fourteen of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. This week, for Project Spaghetti, Eric adds sound effects, through the amazing tool BFXR, and particles, through the other amazing tool Particle Designer, to convey more information about what is going on
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