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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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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