Episode Thirty-Nine Episode Thirty-Nine 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 lays the groundwork for Project Spaghetti’s day and night system. 0:00 Opening Credits 9:02 Live Show Intro 10:59 Today’s Goal 14:15 Overtime Tasks 15:32 Current State […]
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Kids get in for half price, but no responsible parent would ever bring them to the deadly medieval theme park of Dungeonland. Eric discovers the value of smashing everything in his quest to put the monsters back in their place. If you like a straightforward, colorful action game with treasure hidden in every trash can,
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In the third part of the GDC 2015 takeaways, Eric discusses some lessons learned in the Game Design Case Studies seminar, hosted by Eric Zimmerman, where game designers Tanya Short, Dan Cassar, and Bennett Foddy dug deep into one of their game systems to show the process behind arriving at the one that ended up
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Someone get the manager! Eric gets out some work-related stress by tearing through a building full of zombie office workers with the best, flat voice acting in a video game. If you can’t tell by the screenshot, this extremely addicting action game is violent, so if that’s not your thing, this might not be the
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Episode Thirty-Eight 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 revisits the gigantic cowboy boss fight and does some work to make it a more epic struggle, as opposed to the boss shooting himself in the face with
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Here are some more takeaways Eric brought home from the Game Developer’s Conference early in March. This time from the session “Rules of the Game: Five Tricks of Highly Effective Game Designers” The first non-bootcamp session I attended at GDC involved five game designers going over a trick they’ve each used to help improve
Space! Yes, we’re heading back above the clouds into Eric’s favorite place. This time we’re going where no tengu has gone before with X Rebirth, thanks to the Steam free weekend. Come join Eric, along with his stowaway in her highly inefficient spacesuit, as they take to the intergalactic highways in a one-of-a-kind ship and
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Episode Thirty-Seven Episode Thirty-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 makes the player work for their points by collecting coins that explode out of enemies. 0:00 Opening Credits 7:03 Live Show Intro 9:44 Today’s Goal 10:47
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Those of you who follow the show know Eric was out last week, across the ocean in San Francisco, attending the Game Developer’s Conference. He’s still in the process of digesting everything, but here are a few takeaways from the sessions he attended, starting with the two-day Game Design Workshop that kicked off GDC.
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Episode Thirty-Six Episode Thirty-Six 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 sets up stat tracking for Project Spaghetti, storing all of the information about how the player is doing from the number of bullets fired to the
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