There’s a hell of a lot of talk about the indiepocalypse. It’s all a little disconcerting when you’re new to the community to hear that you’re choosing to aim to build a career at the beginning of the apocalyptic end of the craft you hold dear. Why even bother? What’s the point of trying? It’s …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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? 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 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 …
