Episode Forty-Three 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 a little atmosphere to Project Spaghetti’s levels with weather effects like snow, rain, and dust. 0:00 Opening Credits 9:02 Live Show Intro 11:23 Today’s Goal 13:06 Overtime […]
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In the seventh and last of his GDC 2015 takeaways, Eric summarizes a talk that might come in handy for anyone in a management position, whether in a big studio or at an indie developer: Game Studio Management: Making it Great! This was one of those talks where I waffled about going right up
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On the latest episode of Blue Tengu Unplugged, Eric carries on like a Supernatural Winchester, heading into haunted houses to clean out the monsters for cold, hard experience points. Larva Mortus is a fast-paced, top-down monster killer with plenty to keep you on your toes and a giant sword for when you want to go
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Episode Forty-Two 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 converts all of our storage and memory-inefficient background images for the different stages in the game to tiles and lays them down in GameMaker. To save you from
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One of the benefits of living in Tsukuba, Japan is all of the amazing research facilities crowded into the small town at the end of the Express Line coming out of Akihabara. Saturday, the government threw open the doors to all of their facilities to the public, so Eric, being the space nut he is,
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Starting with the sixth GDC 2015 takeaway, Eric switches from game design to business. The first business talk, Surviving the Jump from AAA to Indie, was packed with plenty of warnings for any game developers who are thinking of going Indie. When I spotted a talk about jumping from AAA to Indie, how could
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This week, we’ve got two new unplugged episodes that require a little thinking – something Eric isn’t very good at. The first is the colorful adventure game / Kafkaesque nightmare to be had during the Journey of a Roach. The second is the gorgeous and surreal Mirror Moon EP, which prove Eric’s mental muscles need
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Episode Forty-One Episode Forty-One 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 takes viewer Pandabitz suggestion to mix and match enemies and bumpers from different stages to create new rooms to challenge the player, including a cacti gauntlet,
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In the fifth GDC 2015 takeaway, Eric focuses on two talks, given by independent game designers, with the same goal: finishing a game. The first focuses on efficiency, while the second focuses on polish. The two talks I’m about to summarize hold special interest for me, because we’re in the latter half of development for
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Craft yourself a raft and let the ocean take you to beautiful islands packed with hardy deer and angry pirates in the game Salt. Although it takes a few tries for Eric to gather all of the twigs and sticks he needs to set sail, the pleasant, rolling ocean pays off the effort. Who’s an
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