Episode Twenty-One Episode Twenty-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 gets started making the aliens in the night level feel more like aliens with reflective shields and the beginnings of the laser attack. 0:00 Opening Credits […]
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Episode Twenty Episode Twenty 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 prepares some crystal bumpers and the rough assets for the night level, including a few variations of aliens to find the one that fits. For a
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On last week’s show, episode 20, we roughed up five aliens with the help of our Twitch crew (thank you Pandabitz!) and came to the conclusion that the fifth and final one – a mix of the original idea with the large head/narrow body idea was the way to go. We’ll be implementing the gameplay
Episode Nineteen Episode nineteen 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 fights his cold by heading out to the desert to implement the gameplay, including angry cacti and armored scorpions, for the level we prepared graphics for
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When tasks are first put into an Agile backlog (the to-do list), they’re usually kept quite vague to avoid the work of defining the specifics until those specifics need further defining. This works as long as the time estimate for the task is within a reasonable ballpark of what it’ll take when broken down, and
Episode Eighteen Episode eighteen 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 whips up the rough graphics for the third type of level: the desert, which consists of bleached bone and cacti bumpers as well as the armored
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In any game, the more systems you implement, the more difficult it becomes to maintain a consistent game experience. Games tend to be at their best when they implement one system really, really well, although there are some notable exceptions. The easiest way to describe what we mean is with an example, and one of
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Episode Seventeen Episode seventeen 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 continues the Halloween celebration by finishing off the game’s graveyard level despite a naughty ghost’s efforts to mute his microphone. The video will have annotations to
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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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To continue our early Halloween celebration, Eric took a look at three horror-themed games that have been eagerly awaiting his attention. A huge fan of anything that inspires a little dread, he’s hoping at least one of them will produce a few chills. Killing Floor, a co-op focused survival horror shooter, where Eric learns it’s
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