It’s been a really busy yet still productive week. I managed to get some really good progress on most of the tasks to get ready for a beta release: Add a menu system – managed to add a start, level select and pause menu Polish the animations – got some work done on the death …
Things have been going pretty smoothly in the development of Glo the past few weeks, and I feel it’s a decent enough state to start getting some user feedback and also taking on board some new ideas. I’m planning to upload Glo Beta in the next few days to itch.io so whoever fancies giving a …
Happy Friday everyone it’s vault time! I’ve been thinking a lot about game launch this week. Partly because I want to make sure I’m well prepared ahead of the game and partly because I’m just excited at the thought of it. Therefore this week has a lot of focus on game launch and contacting press, …
I’ve gotten to the point now where I like squeeze in even a little bit of game dev every day. If I don’t I feel it’s a bit of a wasted opportunity to make progress and to express myself artistically. But I made a conscious not to today. Today was always going to be a …
Over the past few weeks I’ve been tirelessly scouring the web finding contacts for my press list. I’ve now finally completed this and I’m ready to move on to Part 2 of my marketing strategy Creating a Press Kit. I’d like to reiterate that this is the strategy I’m currently developing for the release of …
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So a quick update on last weeks activities: Finish the remaining 50% of beta levels – I’ve got all 25 levels complete now and the first boss. There’s still some fine tuning for the boss but I think it’s pretty much there for the beta test. Generate a banner ready for marketing purposes – I …
TGIF and vault time! My opportunity for research this week has been a lot less as any spare moment I’ve had on the Internet has been working on my press list. However I still have a some really useful takeaways from the week. Five Key Areas of Discoverability for Indie Devs – this first entry …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? I’ve been pretty busy the last couple of days using every minute I’m not designing #Glo levels scouring the Web for marketing contact details. That means I’ve not got as much to discuss this week. There is one thing however that I’ve wanted to talk about for a couple of …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? Last week I decided to take a slightly different approach to setting my task list. I realised there were some big areas I needed to focus on getting to a certain point before going back into iterating on each task. I think it really paid off as I managed to …
Hey everybody, how’s it going? Hope you all had a great weekend! I took a break from developing this weekend to enjoy some more family time, but that didn’t stop me and my wife discussing some of the less intensive aspects of the game design. We spent quite a bit of time discussing soundtrack options. …
