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11 BOSS BATTLES OF X-MORPH: DEFENSE - PART 2, TARANTULA MK V
11 BOSS BATTLES OF X-MORPH: DEFENSE - PART 2, TARANTULA MK V
In the next article of the series we describe the creative process behind one of the bosses from X-Morph: Defense. The Tarantula Mk V is the intro level boss. Being one of our first concepts it's surprising it's managed to crawl into the game.
June 6, 2018
Making Worlds in Yellowknife
Making Worlds in Yellowknife
In May of 2018, Rilla Khaled and Pippin Barr ran a Unity world-building workshop with participants in Yellowknife in the Northwestern Territories of Canada. This post is a summary of the workshop, its curriculum, and its outcomes.
June 6, 2018
The world of Pastorate
The world of Pastorate
This article will feature a construction of game setting from scratch. I will show how a mere idea has grown into an interactive novel that took 15 months of development. Maybe it will motivate someone to work further on their long conceived concepts.
June 5, 2018
Video Game Deep Cuts: The Dog In The Darkness
Video Game Deep Cuts: The Dog In The Darkness
This week's highlights include a very special mocap video game dog, the making of the creepy The Church In The Darkness, and lots more besides...
June 4, 2018
Neo-Retro: A design philosophy for Hyper Sentinel
Neo-Retro: A design philosophy for Hyper Sentinel
If retro gaming is collecting and enjoying classic games, the equivalent to owning and watching old movies, then Neo-Retro is the equivalent of Stranger Things – a modern entertainment product which weaves nostalgia throughout the experience.
June 4, 2018
Production Fundamentals - 3 Years Later
Production Fundamentals - 3 Years Later
Revisiting my fundamentals for Producers. The tool kit I try and use everyday.
June 4, 2018
How Disjoint got a perfect 5 star rating (almost)
How Disjoint got a perfect 5 star rating (almost)
CopperBrains' first release, Disjoint, was released in Nov 2017 and sits on the App Store with a nearly perfect 5 star rating.
June 1, 2018
The unexpectedly long tail of a shmup called AQUA KITTY.
The unexpectedly long tail of a shmup called AQUA KITTY.
In game development things do not always go to plan, and sometimes in a good way! In this blog post we track the long tail of a small shmup, featuring cats in submarines.
June 1, 2018
Prepping a Windows 10 Computer to be a Permanent Arcade Installation
Prepping a Windows 10 Computer to be a Permanent Arcade Installation
A quick guide to setting up a Windows 10 computer to act as a permanent installation. Turning the computer on and off on a timer and preventing interruptions to your app.
May 31, 2018
How porting to the PSVita improved performance everywhere else.
How porting to the PSVita improved performance everywhere else.
Porting our game to the Vita required lots of optimizations that helped all of our platforms. Read about what we did!
May 30, 2018
"Demetrios" Post Mortem – The lowest budget adventure game on all gaming platforms
"Demetrios" Post Mortem – The lowest budget adventure game on all gaming platforms
How a random French programmer made a 10-hours adventure game by himself and his success to make a living out of it!
May 30, 2018
[ALT CTRL] Game Design Beyond Screens & Joysticks - Interface Game Design (3/5)
[ALT CTRL] Game Design Beyond Screens & Joysticks - Interface Game Design (3/5)
Tatiana Vilela dos Santos is an indie game designer & interactive artist making games with special interfaces. She gave in March 2018 a 60 minutes talk at the GDC titled Game Design Beyond Screens & Joysticks. This article discusses details of this talk.
May 29, 2018