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Darklands and the Black Arts of Text

Darklands and the Black Arts of Text

[font=arial]This piece was originally posted on my personal website blog yesterday, though I think it'd be appropriate to put here as well due to...

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Selling Assets Online & Store Comparisons

Selling Assets Online & Store Comparisons

In additional to my own projects and freelance jobs, one of my goals this year is to build a humble - but steady - stream of income from selling game...

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Learning 2D Unity

Learning 2D Unity

So I've been doing lots of reading up on Unity & tutorials to get a grip on how it works. I felt like rambling about a few thoughts and observations...

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A review of works from 2011-2016

A review of works from 2011-2016

So it's been five, almost six years since that last entry. I was busy for a bit there it seems, eh? Let's do a quick review of what happened to catch...

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Starfarer: Celestial Spheres

Starfarer: Celestial Spheres

[font="Arial"][size="4"]The world of Starfarer has lovely 3d planets which roll beneath whatever chaos you are sure to wreak out in space. It is only...

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Gaslamp Games on Immortal Machines podcast

Gaslamp Games on Immortal Machines podcast

So Nicholas (brave code-wizard) and I are going to be interviewed on the Immortal Machines podcast. Here's the entry on Colony of Gamers where people...

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Dungeons of Dredmor skill/spell icons

Dungeons of Dredmor skill/spell icons

I've just finished the latest round of revisions to the entire pile of spell icons. This is just one task which is part of the massive spell overhaul...

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Starfarer: Modern Ship Designs

Starfarer: Modern Ship Designs

(This post is written to promote the game Starfarer by Fractal Softworks.)There's more to space combat in Starfarer than nearly-obsolete front-line...

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"Binb is not Bomberman"

"Binb is not Bomberman"

Here's a trailer for "Binb", a simple but compelling game by Maxim Karpenko (posted on IndieGames at the end of December) for which I drew some cute...

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Starfarer: Pew pew!

Starfarer: Pew pew!

Or: Weapon design & graphics modularity in StarfarerA game which revolves around combat in space naturally places great importance on the weapons...

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Untitled

Untitled

Or: Weapon design & graphics modularity in StarfarerA game which revolves around combat in space naturally places great importance on the weapons...

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Bard's Apprentice

Bard's Apprentice

Bard's Apprentice, a cute little Flash combat rpg, was released earlier this month on Age of Games. It was developed by Cun Sun for whom I drew the...

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Dredmor Skill System Design

Dredmor Skill System Design

In the current revision pass on Dungeons of Dredmor we've finally had to make some hard choices about what skills mean to a player's character. Thus...

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Dredmor: What is a Warrior to do?

Dredmor: What is a Warrior to do?

Combat RPGs don't traditionally offer much active choice to a warrior character: Do you attack? Do you not attack?Maybe you get to quaff (but never...

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Starfarer Ship Design

Starfarer Ship Design

This is from a series of posts I'm writing to promote the space combat sandbox/rpg game Starfarer by Fractal Softworks.Ahoy there! My name is David...

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Starfarer by Fractal Softworks

Starfarer by Fractal Softworks

The game "Starfarer" by Fractal Softworks has just been publicly announced! It's a sandboxy spaceship combat/strategy/roleplaying game and is still...

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