Is really quite brillo. Also, I have an invite. Am I super-magickal or what?

New opinion article about Dead Space Extraction coming soon, stay tuned.

Also, in other news, I might post an essay I wrote about T-Mobile.

It does have some strange game design choices, though. Like the oft-mention flashlight that runs out of batteries, but takes less than a second to recharge once it does. I also, personally, don’t like that you have to shine the flashlight to find secret items–Metroid was never like that. The colors were revealed to you.

The spacing of checkpoints is atrocious, in my opinion. Please don’t put a checkpoint, then a boss, then a firefight, and then have the character have to go back to before the boss when they get killed. I also don’t like the design during the first boss–you need grenades to defeat it, but you only get six, and getting more is quite difficult.

All in all, it looks like a fun Metroidvania explore-em-up, but with some deplorable choices in design and unforgivable checkpoint spacing. After playing it more I may post further impressions.

I’ve recently learned of Dog Adventure Game Engine (Dage), and I’ve been trying to get into it. It’s got HUGE potential–I might make some editors for it for myself for personal use if I can ever get out of the bug I’m in–but it needs a bit of work. I think that if the author open-sourced it a lot of things could be worked on, and I hope that if he ever does discontinue it that he open-sources it. I can’t wait to follow this program’s development. It’s about time the indie community had a 3D adventure creator. I also can’t wait until some great talent catches on and releases a killer freeware app on it.

Well, that’s it for now. You should really all follow me on Twitter! All negative one of you!

Now, obviously, this game is a bit beyond my scope at the moment–my vision for DTD involves incredible graphics, flawless netplay, and well-balanced maps. However, it is within my ability to create a series of prototypes that will allow me to refine the gameplay concepts that I one day wish to implement. The first series of these prototypes will be 2D, and I will be documenting every step of work that I do on them.

Nazi Zombies, as a game itself, is a VERY two-dimensional concept. Zombies shamble towards you along a flat plane, and you kill them by shooting them anywhere. Three dimensions aren’t required for fun with this concept, even though the game is executed in that way. That’s why it’s my belief that a perfectly playable, and fun, 2D representation of the game can be created. And that’s my goal right now. To make a fun 2D game.

Will the graphics be good? No. Is netplay feasible? Not particularly. Can I even do this? Only time will tell. But it’s worth a shot. So I give to you, using graphics that are entirely not mine, the first ever screenshot of the Desktop Zombie Defense 2D prototype.

50,000 words. 30 days. Final Destination. No items.

I’m glad to be plunging life into Nightmare Mode this month

As someone who has devoted countless hours of personal time into the Turok franchise, these words make me pretty damn giddy: “I felt like I was 14 again, playing Turok on my N64.”

This will be a special game.

On the eve of NO GAEMS, when I need you the most.

Come back, my Xbox :’(

It basically seems like a Diablo game with modern RPG sensibilities. Oh, and no randominity. But I’ve just started.

If anyone has an opinion of it and would like to let me know, shoot me an email or comment here

A colorful current-gen shooter on the WII?! It’s like a dream come true.

I cannot WAIT for this game.

Genetica is one of my all-time favorite programs. It allows me to quickly and easily create and manipulate procedural, seamless textures and export them to whatever environment I need in my pipeline. The textures looks great and although some programs may have slightly better results, this one is EASY to work in! From concept to completion I can create a texture quickly–and Genetica 3’s canvas features are only gonna make that time faster!