For those of you who tuned in last weekend to our second episode of the live game development show, you might have wondered why we were so intent on using an oddly assorted 16 color palette to make Project Spaghetti. Well, that 4 bit palette of 16 colors was the same palette that created the […]
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After a decade of seeing games and other entertainment products being put together, I’ve noticed a trend that the development teams that don’t settle for the low-hanging fruit, and the game directors that influence people to come up with “better”, tend to be the ones to produce the great games that make a lasting impact.
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Episode Two (Part 1/2) Episode Two (Part 2/2) Episode two of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. This week, we jumped right into the tasks for the game Project Spaghetti, which Eric planned out on last week’s episode. He managed to get a
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Last week we went through the planning phase for Project Spaghetti, though it’s worth going into a little more depth on a particular issue with planning for those of you who got something out of the talk. Ideally, the person making the to-do list and setting the priorities on that to-do list is different from
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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
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Three days left to go, but before the launch, we still have two more members of Eric’s team to introduce. For today, we’ll introduce the artist of the bunch, Dotty. Dots, are you as excited to get started as we are? Dotty: I’m not paid to get excited, and if it doesn’t say “Dots” on
Before kicking off the live game development show, it felt appropriate to take a trip through the back catalog of everything I’ve ever played (at least to the best of my memory) and decide what game experiences influenced me the most as a developer. It’s not an easy list to winnow down when three decades
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We’re down to the last week before the launch of Blue Tengu’s Live Development Show on Twitch.tv. For those of you in the US, it starts on Independence Day, but here’s a more detail rundown of the times: July 4th US & Canada: 4:00pm – 6:00pm Pacific 5:00pm – 7:00pm Mountain
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Blue Tengu is a game development studio seeking to demystify game development through live broadcasting all the way from game concept to approval and distribution. It might be awhile before everything is in place to begin the show Summer 2014, but it’s coming.
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