Last year, around July time, I was given the incredible honor of “Doctor of The University”, from the University of Derby, for my years of service in the video game mines. Because I’m a bit of a dork, and hardly ever update this site, I never got around to posting about it. I stumbled on […]
Blogs are old fashioned now. Someone told me they’re like vlogs only in black and white. Funny stuff that! Everyone who’s anyone is doing a vlog, and blogs are dead. The way people consume information in this modern era is very visual and stimulating, and I’m not sure people even read nowadays. Sadly, I’m not […]
OK, my detour this past week into web site development has come to an end. Mission accomplished, and everyone is happy. And so I turn my attention back towards my little game project. Hooray! I was in the middle of coding various weapons, and so that is where I rejoin the fray. I have 3 […]
I have a fairly tight, albeit self imposed schedule on this new game project, and so far I’ve been doing OK, keeping on track, checking stuff off my task list and making steady progress. And then 2 days ago, I got a call from a friend in distress; Her website, which I built for her […]
After my lazy weekend working on the high score stuff, which I ultimately shit-canned trying to keep the game in scope, I got my head down to finish up the pick-ups and power-ups in the game. I’ve been working on in-game pick-ups the past couple of days. Pick-ups are bonus items like secondary weapons, power-ups, […]
As part of this new game, I’m planning on having a global high score system where players from anywhere can post their initials and have them displayed across all game instances, and on the game website. Technically, doing that is pretty straight forward. You have some code running on a web server that receives and […]
Honestly, I didn’t get much done today. It’s Saturday and there are a ton of distractions all vying for my attention. I was supposed to be working on my high scores web service (which is mostly done), and the in-game UI and high score table functionality (which is NOT mostly done), but I ended up […]
Tea and chocolate are two very important things in my life, and they both bring me an enormous amount of joy. Both things are linked with good times and good memories of places and people. Putting all that emotional stuff aside, taking a step back, and looking at tea and chocolate objectively, they both have […]
Day #1 OK, it’s not really day number 1. I’ve actually been working on this prototype for about 5 weeks now. I woke up one day with a monkey on my back whispering in my ear to make a twin stick shooter. Not sure why, but I’ve always loved the genre and have never got […]
ENEMY WAVE DEVELOPER BLOG! Because the world needs another grumpy old game developer blogging about his game dev escapades, and because I happen to be developing a game right now, AND because I’m stuck in my house hiding from COVID-19, I’ve decided to do a dev blog. Hooray! Over the next few months, you can […]