Episode Forty-Five 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 scoring to the pinball-style bumpers in Project Spaghetti and adds visual effects to make sure the player knows they’re getting rewarded. 0:00 Opening Credits 8:45 Live Show […]
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Last week was a holiday in Japan, giving Eric a chance to tackle some tasks for Project Spaghetti. There were quite a few changes, so rather than go over them all during the live show, we’re going to post about them in a little more detail here. Night Time System Bullets now show up at
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In this episode of Unplugged, we strap on our grenades, rocket launchers, and throwing knives to face the dangerous 80s in the over-the-top action game, Expendabros. Free your inner action star!
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Episode Forty-Four 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 lighting effect for when the sun & moon go down in Project Spaghetti using GameMaker surfaces. 0:00 Opening Credits 9:53 Live Show Intro 12:29 Today’s Goal
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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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