Hey everyone, I'd like to introduce my new game, Demon's Mirror! The game is a roguelike deckbuilder with strategic puzzle elements thrown in. Anyone who's a fan of Slay the Spire or Monster Train should dig it. If you played and liked my other game, WarGames: WOPR, you'll be pleasantly surprised as parts of it have been brought back to life in Demon's Mirror. The [...]
I recently stumbled upon an entertaining video devlog on Youtube. It's one of the best devlog entries I've come across. It's so well crafted it makes me cry. If you've ever worked on a game I'm sure you've run into many of the thought processes and problems he highlights. The creator goes by Mythic Legion, but there's a lack of other content so it's [...]
The IGF 2015 Entries have been posted. This is the Independent Games Festival, which is basically a giant list of (most of) the best indie games recently released or soon to be released. My game, A Spire To The Gods, is listed on the front page because the judges thought it was so awesome. Just kidding! It's alphabetical. It would be nice if the web page had [...]
Last weekend I took part in a game jam at the SETI Institute. Several local developers showed up to make some interesting games, and quite a few teams participated remotely. Overall, the SETI game jam was a great experience. For games in this jam the only 2 rules were that they had to use part of the Drake Equation and something from the SETI Data Page. From the [...]
Now that I'm back full time on A Spire To The Gods I'd like to keep you updated every few weeks with videos showing off the latest features. This last week I implemented enemy special abilities, AKA special moves. Certain enemies will be able to do one of these actions: Heal Ally - Heals a damaged enemy on the screen. If multiple healers are present [...]
The Omega Jam consists of a group of indie game developers getting together to push hard on individual milestones in a shared work environment. We started on January 21, 2014 and have the space until February 21, 2014. It originated with 6 teams of 1-3 people each. Check out OmegaJam.com for game info, live streams of our work, and more. What's amazing is we found a space [...]