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The Indy Game Festival is THE place to be for a rising independent game devloper. Some of my favorite titles have been a part of this festival (and the prizes aren’t that bad either!).
But more than anything, I really want to get some eyeballs on the game and show an interested audience what BEEP [...]

Since Maya included Python as it’s scripting language, animation TD’s all over the globe have made the transition from MEL.  While learning a new language isn’t always easy, I don’t know of a single person who misses the days of MEL scripting. Python is, in every conceivable way, better than MEL.

I’m building a videogame (BEEP) that belongs to the ‘platformer’ genre. More specifically, it’s a ‘2d side-scrolling’ platformer. Platformers were THE dominant videogame genre for much of the 80’s and 90’s. This article explores the platforming genre to understand exactly what it’s all about. After all, platforming remains one of the highest selling and paradoxically, [...]

BEEP is at the point now where we are cranking out levels and prepping to begin audio work. I’m happy with the gun controls and general locomotion. I have a nice little selection of enemy types (both stationary and ones that chase the player). The ‘AI entities’ ( ie. Finite State Machines with basic ray-casting [...]

Not having a lot of time for lengthy updates, I’ve decided to bundle a bunch of stuff into a single article. I think it gives you a snapshot of the sorts of things that lie on the periphery of game development but are integral to the final product. In recent weeks I’ve been scrambling to [...]