Smartbomb

17 Oct

Weekly Game Idea 6: Full Spectrum Window Box

I think this one could be revealing a bit too much about my psyche. During a recent episode of River Cottage Autumn, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall gave a fleeting reference to lovage – a plant I have been gleefully looking for excuses to talk about since I first heard of it a year or two ago. To [...]

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12 Oct

Content Disclosure

Among the comments to my post about scrolling shooters, John writes: Maybe with the alternate path system your talking about, you could change the path and rhythm of the game [...] Thats got the old rub of making loads of content that people wont see though. This reminded me of something I read recently that [...]

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03 Oct

Weekly Game Idea 5: Seeds and Shotguns

THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING! IT’S THE END OF CIVILIZATION! Alert readers will already be aware that I have a degree in economics. The main thing I learned from this is that our banking system is a fragile house of cards built on blind hope and empty promises. This blog isn’t the place to discuss [...]

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02 Oct

How do scrolling shooters work anyway?

With work commitments out of the way, I’ve begin to devote more time to my ‘portfolio’. I have a few things planned, but top of the list in that I want to make a fun little 8-bit style game – something simple enough for me to wrap my head around, but with enough leeway to [...]

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