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Rocket Rascal Postmortem

Rocket Rascal Postmortem

[color=#282828][font=arial]My latest game, Rocket Rascal, was just released into the iOS and Android app...

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Rocket Rascal Optimizations

Rocket Rascal Optimizations

My latest game, Rocket Rascal, was just released into the iOS and Android app stores.(You can get it here for iOS and here for Android) I wanted to...

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Alien Star Menace Post-Mortem

Alien Star Menace Post-Mortem

Preamble[color=#444444][font='Helvetica Neue']Alien Star Menace is available now for iPhone & iPad on the Apple App Store and on Android in the...

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Alien Star Menace is Out

Alien Star Menace is Out

My latest game was released! For both iOS and Android - I didn't intend to make an Android build, but it turned out to be way easier than I...

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Promotional Materials

Promotional Materials

Alien Star Menace is in review with Apple right now and should hopefully be available for iOS devices in the next few days.Here are various promo...

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Pixel Space Horror Demo 2

Pixel Space Horror Demo 2

I've just released the second demo for my game Pixel Space Horror.Play the Second Public-Ish Demo HereI'm not going really wide until the alpha...

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Pixel Space Horror Rebalancing

Pixel Space Horror Rebalancing

[color=rgb(68,68,68)][font='Helvetica Neue']Rebalancing[/font][/color]One of the criticisms of my pre-alpha demo of Pixel Space Horror was the...

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Pixel Space Horror Levels

Pixel Space Horror Levels

During this phase of development for Pixel Space Horror, I'm focusing on content. Specifically, I'm trying to get the first 15 levels roughed in -...

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Pixel Space Horror Units & Enemies

Pixel Space Horror Units & Enemies

I spent most of the weekend adding the vast majority of units & enemies for Pixel Space Horror that will be seen in the game. The majority of the...

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Pixel Space Horror Pre-Alpha Demo

Pixel Space Horror Pre-Alpha Demo

Update 4: Pre-Alpha Demo[color=rgb(0,0,0)][font=Verdana][background=rgb(252,252,252)]I wanted to put together a small web build, mostly for friends...

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Pixel Space Horror UI Update

Pixel Space Horror UI Update

Most of the last few days has been spent putting together some necessary UI elements. I'm trying to keep the game pretty UI-lite, but there's no...

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The AI of Pixel Space Horror

The AI of Pixel Space Horror

BackgroundPixel Space Horror (PSH) is a very streamlined strategy game: units can only move and attack. For movement, they have a fixed range they...

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Cuddle Bears Gets Update, Free Version

Cuddle Bears Gets Update, Free Version

I haven't posted here in a while. Most of that has been because my side-projects were completely buried under the weight of my job project (go play...

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iPhone Development Pitfalls

iPhone Development Pitfalls

These are fresh in my mind, so I thought I'd put together a quick blog post:Don't assume that because your app runs on an iPhone 1st generation that...

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I'm Not Too Bright

I'm Not Too Bright

Spot the insanity:struct WordTreeNode{ bool IsWord; StringBuilder Word; DynamicArray Nodes; DynamicArray UsedNodes; int UsedNodeCount;...

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Digging Into my Toolbox

Digging Into my Toolbox

I've spent the better part of my professional game development career developing tools. All the same, when I'm involved in a personal project, I have...

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Thoughts on Android NDK

Thoughts on Android NDK

In my spare spare time (that is, my time not dedicated to my day job or an active side project), I've been hacking with porting Word Duelist from...

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Word Duelist iPhone Post Mortem

Word Duelist iPhone Post Mortem

ForewardJust a quick word before I get into the post mortem proper: Word Duelist for the iPhone shipped about 12 hours ago. I'm writing this while...

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Word Duelist Ships!

Word Duelist Ships!

My second personal iPhone game has now shipped and is available on the app store! Go get it:Free Version Full VersionI'm a bit rushed for time right...

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