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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Episode Forty Episode Forty 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 the visuals for Project Spaghetti’s day & night system to give the player some awareness that enemies power up once the sun dips over the
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In the fourth in the series of GDC 2015 takeaways, Eric combines lessons learned from two related talks: Anti-Social Behavior in Games: How Can Game Design Help? and More Science Behind Shaping Player Behavior in Online Games. He’ll also jump into rating systems for user-generated content based on a finding in one of the talks. I
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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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