Imparting game development wisdom of dubious quality a ridiculously long time.
This is currently the easiest planet, "Gray Blob Planet", although I might go with "Generic Planet", because that'd be funnier. It's mostly just gray blobs.
I wanna find some more "physical" looking hexes. It's really looking more and more like a boardgame, so I think if I made the tiles look like …
Was playing around with various bits of alien-worthy clipart, and I think I inadvertently invented Beard Planet.
BE SKEERED OF THE ALIEN BEARD!
Idle muse. If Apple ever does drop non-iOS desktop/laptop computers, how will they handle software development?
1. Port their development tools to iOS.
2. Dump development dog-fooding and make development kits that run under Linux and/or Windows.
Number 2 seems kinda unthinkable, but cross-compiling …
Unity's posted an update on their AR objects that abstract both Google ARCore and Apple ARKit.
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/12/18/unitys-handheld-ar-ecosystem-ar-foundation-arcore-and-arkit/
So Dwarf Planet Pirates has grown in scope. BUT unlike Zeptoys, I have an end-goal. I need to get the level-up stuff working. After that, it’s a matter of creating content, like planets and players and extra abilities and achievements. Almost all the underpinnings are in place.
Here's a dynamically…
Well now I feel good.
Just did the last session of my most unruly class yesterday. This is the class of 16 kids (14 boys), and it went for 12 weeks instead of 8. While most of the kids were good, there were about four rather obnoxious boys and one not-especially-smart girl that I really could've do…
Reason number 637 why you should never read your product reviews. They make you lose your faith in humanity.
During a mandatory update of my games, I noticed that someone docked Dice Planet two stars because the random number generator is insufficiently random.
Seems to still be working.
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It says in the post that the free offer expired but it didn't just yet...
https://ozb.me/o/1nCv?u=gp
Okay, so here's the Java Mess as I think it currently stands. Oracle has, for the third time, figured out that "open source" generally means "people will use this product without giving us money", so they're moving further development to a non-free fork for enterprise customers (see also, MySQL,…
Finally figured out how you'll finish up a planet. I was just gonna have it announce that you were dead once your health hit zero, but I never much liked that. If you're not paying attention to your health, it feels that the game pops up a dialog announcing that you're dead at arbitrary times.…
Sorry, but I seem to have forgotten to post anything for three years. That is likely to change. . .
Well at some point a couple of weeks ago the hard drive in my Main Development Box decided that booting to an OS was no longer necessary. And it chose to do so…
Well at some point a couple of weeks ago the hard drive in my Main Development Box decided that booting to an OS was no longer necessary. And it chose to do so right in the middle of a deadline. So I hoofed it over to Frys to purchase a replacement drive and a copy of Windows 8. While the UI is co…
Okay, this is mostly just testing. Looks like Blogger is finally integrating itself with G+, so posting stuff to Blogger will automagically repost on G+. I rather figured it would go the other way, with some kind of checkbox that I could click on long G+ entries to make 'em post to my blog.
Yes, ag…
This is a long-needed change to the Mac versions of my games. In the past, my Mac games worked on both the old PowerPC-based Macs as well as the newer Intel ones. Well, now the PowerPC Macs have graduated from "old" to "ancient", and Apple has been gently nudging developers into working only with …
Tech support tip for independent game developers selling game downloads
Gmail is a GREAT tech support tool.
I've been selling downloadable games on my website since 2007. And in those years I've had plenty (and by plenty I mean hundreds) of emails to support@thecodezone.com from people who need help…
Gmail is a GREAT tech support tool.
I've been selling downloadable games on my website since 2007. And in those years I've had plenty (and by plenty I mean hundreds) of emails to support@thecodezone.com from people who need help.…
O'Reilly
ActionScript Developer's Guide to PureMVC
Google Script: Enterpris…
Been about forever since I posted a good deal. So here's a good deal.
Three good freebies from Daz3D.
Mind you, it requires that you sign up to a newsletter and such. But still, they're some fun 3D programs if you're looking to model stuff.
This deal's apparently lasting all the way through February,…
Three good freebies from Daz3D.
Mind you, it requires that you sign up to a newsletter and such. But still, they're some fun 3D programs if you're looking to model stuff.
This deal's apparently lasting all the way through February, …
Problem is, the Amazon-scraper we u…
Problem is, the Amazon-scraper we use…
Following this post of a couple of years ago, here's the second in my series
How To Write A Losing Pitch For Your Indie Game Project
I just found this taking up a little space in Google Docs. It's the original "pitch" I made for Monkey Blockade a couple of years ago.
To be honest, I don't even …
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Yeah, I noticed my last post to the blog was a quick postmortem of Marble Bump, which was a game that I intended to take from concept to app stores submit in two weeks.
Well, I decided to one-up myself, and I wanted to find something I could write and submit in ONE WEEK, mainly to get stuff in app-…
Well, I decided to one-up myself, and I wanted to find something I could write and submit in ONE WEEK, mainly to get stuff in app-s…
