Game Development The last few days have been glorious! Perfect for some game development! Call me sad but I love being sat in the car, windows open, breeze coming through, music on, doing some game dev! The focus this week has been on the game loop. Starting from the start menu, loading the first level …
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Game Development It’s been a good week for game development. It’s been really nice to get back into a rhythm of development that doesn’t feel repetitive and dull. This week has mostly focused on developing Gym Empire to start to feel more like a simulation management game. To do this I am following a path …
Game Development So Far It’s done! It’s FINALLY DONE!! The Save/Load system has finally been completed!! It’s only taken me like what… three months? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry! I knew the Save/Load system was going to be tricky for me to implement. The more I understood the more the task grew …
Game Development Game development. Who ever said it was going to be easy. As many of you who keep up to date with the development Gym Empire are aware. It has been a good few months since any regularity in the Gym Empire progress updates. There are a number of reasons behind that. Partly the …
Is starting a blog in 2019 a good idea if you are a game developer? Making a video game is hard. Creating a good video game is harder. Making a successful video game is indie development on extreme mode! However there are some things that can be done as an indie developer to give you …
Game Development So Far I missed last week’s game development update because I don’t want to bore you with never ending tales of saving and loading. God knows it’s boring me! For the first time in my game development journey I’ve found something I’m not enjoying. No good complaining though. Head down and keep hacking …
Game Development So Far Long-time no see! It’s been just over a month since the last Gym Empire game development update and in that time a lot has been going on!! What a hectic month January was. Never the less game dev continued and took top priority just behind my family. When I last spoke …
Game Development So Far With another great holiday season in the bag it’s time to start the New Year strong. Game development last year went really well with a final push to clean up some of the UI for the staff and equipment selection. The changes have helped define the basics for the rest of …
Game Development So Far Last week I decided to focus game development on the UI menus and make them top priority. It’s something I’ve put on the backburner since the last big UI update. You would think the UI design is the easy part of development, but for me it’s one of the harder ones. …
