Hey everyone, how’s it going? It’s Friday so that means it’s time for the next entries into the vault. This week I’ve been pretty busy progressing on Glow so I’ve not done as much research, as such I only have two entries for this week, but I found them both very informative and worthy of …
Hey everybody, how’s it going? As I make further progress on Glow I get closer to needing to decide a release date. It would be nice to just release when I’m done. But the reality is to help the visibility of Glow I’ll need to plan the release date well and the activities building up …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? A bit later this week but time for another quick update on the last weeks progress: Get the different glow colour affects working and if not decide on a way forward – I finally got this sorted, and in time for #screenshotsaturday. It felt great finally achieving this as I …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I was going to start discussing in more detail the marketing strategy I’m beginning to develop. I figure now is a good time to start that. I’d like to state that this is strategy is still being developed and I haven’t …
Hey everybody, how’s it going? As I’ve been doing a lot of research over the past few months in the world of indie dev I’ve come across a wealth of informative and interesting articles, videos and podcasts. A lot of them have helped me gain confidence and earn an appreciation for the depth and passion …
A bit of a random one today but I couldn’t help myself. I was hammering my way through YouTube today on a grinding mission to collect contact details for the channels I want to contact. Anyone who is familiar with will know that to get to the email address under the about section you have …
Hey everybody, how’s it going? One of my main aims for getting a nice look to #Glow was to have the ability have different colour glows. I feel it’s really needed to avoid the game looking too stark and to add some overall eye candy to the experience. The way I’ve been generating the glow …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? A quick update today on last week’s progress: Add fully functioning enemies to Glow – I managed to add the enemies to Glow and put in their core mechanics. I’m pretty pleased with how they are functioning so far. The next steps will be to refine their design and sound …
Hey everyone! How’s it going? This weekend I finally posted the first prototype gif of Glow. Its shows the basic hook of the game. The game is an abstract, twitchy platformer with the lights turned off. The environment is mostly pitch black with the only light sources being from Glowie (the main character), the escape …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? I’m feeling pretty confident in Glow now and I think I’ve got enough prototyped to start putting it out there and testing the water. I’m going to knock up a gif or two and put out for #screenshotsaturday and see what type of response I get. I feel like I …
