Do you remember the old NES classic Bomberman? Here is Bomberman reimagined as a 2D side scroller like Super Mario Bros. But because it is only one player, I shall call it Bomber Bro. Using sprites from NES Bomberman, Super Mario Bros and Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers, I cobbled together a fun platform game …
About strangers randomly (and frequently) posting on indie game developer forums asking for new ideas, you may feel like how I feel: unsure. Unsure of whether to be sympathetic or annoyed due to its frequency. So I’ve created a game idea generator where you can send these game devs to. Or if you too are …
Tim Ruswick is one YouTuber (Game Dev Underground) whom I appreciate being around. He strikes me as a sincere person, and very willing to share knowledge and even vulnerable views and emotions in order to help his viewers understand where he is coming from. Apart from him seeming like a really decent human being, he …
TL;DR? Bottom line in my post is to keep creating games to improve your game development skill and experience. Publishing more games quickly also gives you real market feedback a lot sooner. So if you are interested in understanding how I came to this conclusion? Read on. The question about getting game ideas has been …
Find It Casual, Puzzle, Free, Android One minute. Screens full of similar pictures… or are they? Point the odd ones out. Based on the old familiar children’s activity of pointing out the odd picture among a screen full of the same ones. But you have only one minute to scour through the many levels and it …
What was intended to be a very quick level creation turned out to have taken me hours because I could not make up my mind about many things. I’m happy to have finished this very short first person explorer in a small level. The setting is in a medieval castle that leads to a dock. …
Recently I tried to successfully write a C++ application that would run with MySQL. While there are several different methods shown in tutorials, I found the leanest way available at that time which I could use. If this interests you, here is the tutorial video I made that takes you step-by-step from installation to successful …
If you had recently installed Unity Hub and Unity 2018, you would find that there is no option to select a location of your choice. Unity Hub first installs in C:\Program Files\Unity Hub, and after you select your Unity version from Unity Hub (I reckon you would select Unity 2018), Unity will then be installed …
Working on particles on Unity is really fun. Was glad to make progress over the past week on firing projectiles, making laser beam explosions and getting sparks to fly as the ship grinds along the walls. Threw in an enemy ship just today, and worked out its death sequence. Everything worked out well, and I …