The business book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, and specifically the section on Company Building, sparked some thoughts related to the way game development teams seem to flounder as they move through the process of making a game the way businesses flounder as they grow larger. For building a company, Steve […]
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We have another double-header of Unplugged episodes this week: Costume Quest 2 and Tropico 5. In Costume Quest 2, Eric dons a few new outfits to gather up sweet candy and punish sour goblins who want to ruin Halloween in this trick-or-treating adventure game from Double Fine. And in the second game, Eric kicks his
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In this episode, we take what we’ve learned from the movement and circling mechanics we’ve implemented so far to find our base system for the game. For those of you who haven’t followed the show or this season so far, the core gameplay is circling around enemies to destroy them, while flying through an open
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We know it has been awhile since posting an Unplugged episode, so we’re going to fix that with a double-header. The first game is Vessel, a side-scrolling puzzle game where you have to find clever ways to get water under control (and water really doesn’t like being told what to do). The sound quality in
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In this episode, we add the last two candidates for the circling mechanic – one a semi-automatic version, where the player can control the radius of their circle attack with the input (locking the pivot to where they started the circle), and the other an automatic version which either generates a small circle for a
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Gall’s Law is a rule of thumb for systems design from John Gall’s book Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail. In it, he states: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be
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In this episode, we limit the player’s powerful circling mechanic with an energy supply that recharges slowly to a certain limit in dark areas, but much faster in designated “light” areas. Since the last episode, we also started making a parallel prototype in Unreal Engine 4, which we show, as well as a second circling
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In this episode, we implement the first possible enemy circling mechanic: holding the attack button to create larger and larger preset rings that do variable damage to enemies depending on their size and color. Credit goes to viewer Pandabitz for the suggestion as one way to keep the gameplay moving while still having a strategic
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In the 3rd episode for this season, we get started fiddling with flying controls, and get by with a lot of help from our friends. We also go over our thoughts on the project’s 3D outlook from an earlier blog post and some of the points for us to consider this month on whether to
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On last week’s episode of our Game Development Show, we played around with GameMaker’s D3D functionality to test the potential of the engine for handling 3D because Project Skyring would be a much stronger game if we could pull off a proper sense of height/altitude as opposed to going with a more retro solution. We
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