Did some “worldbuilding” last night, this time fleshing out the village of…uh, unnamed, I guess. This part has been without a doubt my favorite. Names in bold are mostly final, whereas the unnamed villagers get just a short blurb describing their general idea. There’s a lot of them – probably too many. They aren’t all […]
SNOWED IN Week of February 5th, 2017 WARP DOGS’ CORP LOGS The state of our WARP CORP continues to hold steady at ~really god damned good~ The Extinction-Level-Event (ELE) is now ~46 weeks away. Remarkable! An errant Comcast payment aside, this was another good week. All my planning and saving is apparently paying off, which is good! Maybe […]
THE EMERALD CITY Week of January 29th, 2017 OVERVIEW This week had some of the highest highs as well as some of the lowest lows. On Tuesday I had perhaps my most productive day so far on the technical front, and on Friday I finally reached the summit of Mt. Dialog and implemented that system […]
Welcome to another edition of Feature Friday! Yet again we’re taking a deep dive into one of the many features and systems you can find in Village Monsters Today, I’m going to talk about how conversing and dialog will work. Let’s take a look. You’re going to be doing a lot of talking in Village Monsters. There […]
THE EMERALD CITY Week of January 29th, 2017 WARP DOGS’ CORP LOGS The state of our WARP CORP continues to hold steady at ~insanely heckin’ good~ The Extinction-Level-Event (ELE) is now ~45 weeks away. Remarkable! As my team of highly-respected accountants points out, this was the first week in the WARP CORP’s history that we had to […]
ONWARD, TO GLORY! Week of January 22nd, 2017 OVERVIEW Another week in the books, and another good one at that. This week was that of systems. The biggest – by far – was the enabling of the day/night cycle and related systems surrounding it. Slowly but surely this virtual world is waking up and becoming […]
Welcome to another edition of Feature Friday. Today, I’m going to go over one of the constants in life and video games – the passage of time. What Makes You Tick? First up, I want to talk a bit about my overall design goals for the passage of time in my game. Village Monsters is a […]