Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Non-MMO games.
Monday evening, I understood what my game wanted to be about. Tuesday, I realized that the game was horribly, horribly flawed. Coming in, all I really knew I wanted to do was the graph paper-like room generation, and I hoped the rest of the game would occur to me as I was doing that. And … Read more
For those people who don’t care about the 7DRL game design challenge, don’t worry — things will be back to normal this weekend. I’ve just finished day 3 of the seven days, and I’ve almost finished the basic mechanics. Today I added the inventory system and integrated it into the targeting window. You can only … Read more
My 7DRL entry is moving along, but it’s not moving quickly. I’d said even before I started this that, given a full time job, how the game was at the end of Sunday — today — is how it would have to be. I ALMOST got inventory in today; it is partially in, but I … Read more
I started working on my entry to the annual 7DRL (7 Day Rogue-like) game design challenge today. I’ve been working on algorithms for the game for the past week; today I took the algorithms for map generation and room connectivity and put them into real code. It turned out pretty much exactly as I imagined … Read more
I’ve decided to take the jump and enter the Seven Day Roguelike (7DRL) competition starting next month. The challenge? Write a complete “rogue-like” adventure game in just seven days. The additional challenge is that these include WORKING days, so there’s far less time in which to do it. My first inclination was to do it … Read more