Another Early Morning

Global Game Jam: A Post Mortem

2010-02-05T09:21:13Z

This year I attended the Global Game Jam and made The Cleaner. More than creating a game in 48 hours I came away with more insight into the process of developing games and gameplay. In this post I expand on some of the lessons I took away from the game jam. Ultimately, I think the [...]

The Cleaner: Global Game Jam Game

2010-02-02T06:05:55Z

This year I participated in the Global Game Jam! It was a lot of fun and a great way to meet other game developers in the area. We worked our asses off over the weekend to throw something together — I’ll share more thoughts on that later. In the meantime, I’d like to share with [...]

Global Game Jam 2010!

2010-01-27T02:14:09Z

It’s a new year which means it’s time for another Global Game Jam. I didn’t participate last year but after reading all about it I felt it would be a major loss to skip out this time. Fortunately for me DigiPen will be holding a meet-up. I hope you guys can find a place nearby [...]

Thinking About User Interfaces as Games

2010-01-20T02:07:07Z

Really interesting article by my colleague over at Lost Garden. Dan talks about a new project that he’s been working on to blend game design and user interface principles. As a game developer and someone who works a lot with user interfaces I found his piece very provocative, so I thought I would share it [...]

More experimenting

2009-12-16T05:25:27Z

Thanks goes out to everyone who gave me feedback on my last experiment! It’s always fun to share things with you guys and hear what you think. Since I posted that experiment I’ve been hard at work on another word game — which I will hopefully be able to share with you soon. Enough about [...]

Flash Game Market Survey Results

2009-12-14T03:14:47Z

Recently Mochi and some other big players in the Flash gaming community sponsored a survey to get a feel for the state of the industry. The results are in and it’s worth taking a look. What really stands out to me is that most Flash game developers are making games as a hobby and with [...]

Can I Get Your Opinion?

2009-12-05T09:04:47Z

Hey everyone, I’d like your thoughts about a possible art-style for another word game I’ve been thinking about. Basically I’d like to hear whether you think it’s aesthetically appealing, whether you’d click and try the game based on this look, and anything else you care to share. Check it out and let me know what [...]

Box2d and Flash

2009-12-04T22:33:03Z

After I completed Adlib I started to play around with a bunch of different technologies. I wanted to try out new technology and new ideas and see what came up. One of the things that interested me was more realistic physics simulation. With Fluster I wrote a simple physics system to accommodate the platforming elements, [...]

Silverlight Game Source Code

2009-12-04T20:48:03Z

Thought I would share the source code for my recent excursion into Silverlight. I haven’t done anything special here in terms of design, so just consider this as a good starter project for picking up the ABC’s of Silverlight game development. Anyway, I hope that you find this useful and if it’s missing something or [...]

EA’s Battlefied Changes Pricing

2009-12-03T01:10:48Z

I came across this article on Ars Technica the other day. It’s not a great article, a little whiney to be honest, but the subject is interesting nonetheless. Battlefield is a competitive multiplayer game where players can purchase shortcuts or upgrades for a fee. The plan was to earn back the initial investment through such [...]