Episode Twenty-Seven Episode Twenty-Seven 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 wrests control of the decision-making process from individual enemies and hands it off to a central controller to allow for fine-tuning of the play experience in […]
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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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Episode Five Episode five of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. A month has passed since starting Project Spaghetti, so this week Eric revisits planning to see how his estimates worked out. After that, he jumps into making the game more like a
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One of the most difficult things to manage when working with a team on any project is fear. Of course that applies to game projects as well. It’s hard enough to deal with on a solo project, but fear grows with the size of the undertaking. A game jam is not as scary as 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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