Today I’m beginning work on rebuilding Night of the Crescent Moon from scratch, using Love2d instead of Gamemaker Studio, for Adventure Jam 2019. At this point, I no longer utilize Gamemaker and instead fully embrace Love2d for game development purposes. I originally started this game way back in 2016 for…
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This game is currently under development This is a demake of the classic genesis puzzle game Columns 3: Revenge of Columns. How to play Line up rows of 3 or more either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Activate the crush ability to push your opponents blocks up and try to fill…
Laser Blast! 3: Fury of the Wizard is a 2d 8bit rail shooter in the style of Space Harrier. Enemies will periodically fly towards you. Shoot them down while avoiding their attacks. When the sun sets, defeat the level boss to win the game. Controls:– Directional keys: Move around– Z…
Today we’ll be looking at more programming concepts which are a bit more advanced. After learning these concepts, you’ll be one step closer towards game development. Flow Control Flow control is similar to a flow chart and is at the heart of nearly all programming. You can think of it…
Now that we have covered each menu of Pico-8, we’re ready to begin game development! There are different ways to start a project, such as coding, drawing sprites and writing music. For this tutorial, I’ll be focusing on the coding aspects since that is my area of expertise. The Game…
Pico-8 is a fantastic little program for designing tiny 2d sprite-based games. It uses the Lua programming language, which is a dynamically-typed scripting programming language. Lua is a popular language in building mods for video games since it’s very simple and lightweight. Lua is an easy, user-friendly language to learn,…
It’s no secret that we live in an age where more video games are developed than ever. With more and more games coming out each year, how can smaller indie developers hope to compete? Well…there’s all sorts of ways, as you might expect. Today we’ll be looking at the Unwinnable…
This is my first post where I will be discussing the development process of one of my games. I think it’s important to be able to explain to other people how your work is built so that they may be able to learn from it š If I get around…
https://rocstudios.itch.io/story-of-the-mirrorNote: This game was released on October 27, 2018 for Darktober Game Jam 2018. Story of the Mirror This is a short horror game that IĀ developed for DarkTober Game Jam 2018 using the Pico-8 fantasy console. This game is not suited for children or those who are easily disturbed. Controls:…
When designing a video game, there is a good chance that you will need to come up with some enemies and bosses for the player to face. Invariably, the question becomes: what makes a good enemy or boss design? In this post, I will look at some memorable villains of…