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 […]
Luckstone Lore #001: For you, it was Saturday
[Isaac, thx for getting in touch. Found the below on the old rig. Rough draft, rougher than I remember. Mind the grammar] “For you, it was Saturday. But for me? It was the start of the rest of my life” I didn’t know it at the time, but I had just experienced my first “Robert-ism”, a name […]
Sprint 2 – Onward, to Glory! – Plan
ONWARD, TO GLORY! Week of January 22nd, 2017 WARP DOGS’ CORP LOGS The state of our WARP CORP is still ~insanely heckin’ good~ The Extinction-Level-Event (ELE) is at a new all-time record of 48 weeks away. Indescribable! This week’s chart is a bit misleading! I didn’t spend a cent from the overall nest egg I’ve saved up, but […]
Sprint 1 – Here We Go! – Retrospective
HERE WE GO! Week of January 15th, 2017 OVERVIEW My first sprint is over, and I think I can with a straight face that it was a resounding success. I got a ton done! Given that I now have 8+ hours a day to work on this project instead of ~2-3 then I guess I […]
Feature Friday: An Early Look at Catching Critters
This is the first of what will be many Feature Fridays. Each Friday I’ll take one major feature or interesting mechanic that I’ve been working on in Monster Village and really dive into it. Today, I’m going to talk about the first of at least three hobbies: Critter Catching! What are “Hobbies”? At its heart, Monster […]
Sprint 1 – Here We Go! – Plan
HERE WE GO! Week of January 15th, 2017 WARP DOGS’ CORP LOGS The Pre-Sprints have been completed – we are now in the full sprint mode. A last minute rearrangement of finances was able to get the cash reserves to record levels. I now have 42 weeks to, bluntly, “figure this shiz out” and figure […]
PRE-SPRINT-14 – IT’S REAL AND IT’S SPECTACULAR – RETROSPECTIVE
IT’S REAL AND IT’S SPECTACULAR Week of January 8th, 2017 OVERVIEW This is it, friends. This big ol’ life change no longer needs to be spoken of in future tense or hypotheticals – it’s real. (and yeah, it’s spectacular) The career is dead; long live the career. All in all this sprint was absolutely wonderful. I […]