So I’ve been making more progress on the Game in a Week. No game screenshots to show yet, but here’s a neat piece of tech that I’m using, which will be finding its way into MMORPG Tycoon 2.0. What you’re looking at again is a slow zoom-in on a very, very small terrain in wireframe…
So after a day of consideration, I’m putting forward my current musings on a design for GiaW #6 (currently work-in-progress-titled “Lord”). As a reminder, the theme quote this time is: “Lord, save us from that horrible land!”, a lyric taken from the novel Dune. First, some constraints that I need to keep in mind during…
I have a confession to make. I never liked Dune. Now, I’m not talking about the father of the modern RTS genre, nor am I talking about the frequently-incomprehensible David Lynch film, nor even the John Harrison miniseries (although I never particularly liked any of those, either). No, I’m talking about Frank Herbert’s Dune, the…
Well, it’s been well over a week, time to talk about how things went with Robot Finds Ice Cream. In general, I’m pleased with the game, but less pleased with the production quality that came out of it. I justify it by pointing out that it was implemented in just a week, and that explanation…
So it’s time to talk a little about the Game in a Week that I’m ostensibly working on. This particular GiaW is interesting, in that of all the GiaWs I have done, I got the final game idea for this one the earliest in the week (Tuesday morning), but left the first implementation the latest. …