Sometimes it’s the little things that can make all the difference. If you’ve been keeping up with my blog you’ll know that it’s been a difficult week. On top of that I’ve been struggling to regain my momentum in game dev during the start of 2018. I’d found myself against a bit of a brick …
As I continue to develop Gym Empire I find more and more just how different working in 3D is. Creating objects in the world is not too difficult and placing them just involves understanding that there is a 3rd axis that you need to accommodate for when defining the position. It however starts to become …
Over the past week I have been focusing the development of Gym Empire into getting the basic systems up and running in Unity. I expected this to take a bit of effort but I didn’t realise that each individual step would feel like such a challenge. The issue is one of two halves. To start …
Game Development So Far Last week I managed to get the systems in Gym Empire to a fit enough state whereby I could start to test them out a little. Most of the work was done in Visual Studio using Windows Forms. This has been great for providing a pure number simulation with some very …
So after some work this week I’m starting to get the systems in Gym Tycoon/Empire into some sort of playable game. It’s very early and clunky but there is already a ‘game feel’ to it. The current systems are in place and currently form the foundation for the game: Gym – The gym is a …
I’ve been bouncing between Gym Tycoon and Gym Empire for the past weeks trying to decide which name is best. In the Tycoon corner I feel it would be nice have Tycoon in the name as it stands out for me and takes me back to the good old days of the original Tycoon games. …
Something I learnt whilst developing Glo, is that although a quick dev cycle is great for productivity, it is actually terrible for marketing. I believe that once someone becomes relatively successful then a quick dev cycle can work as marketing should be easier if you are more well known. However, for someone still starting out …
