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  • 7 Day RL Update – Wednesday

    New screenshot! New UI! Excuse the dungeon tiles – they are in a bit of disarray at the moment. There’s going to be multiple different levels to the game so so far there’s five different dungeon styles. I think we just made the pretty-hard decision to cut a lot of content in favor of getting…

  • 7 Day RL Update – Monday

    This is starting to look like a game! Switchbreak has added items and inventory. The things you see circles for are things I need to make art for. I’ve made eight basic characters (male/female of four classes). I think the game may have only four classes for now. It’ll be important to have a variety…

  • 7 Day RL Update – Saturday

    Switchbreak is doing some amazing work at coding, so the game is already working well! There’s walls and floors and you can move around in them. It looks like this… I’m meanwhile creating some different themed dungeon tiles, which look more like this: I’m actually going to tone the wall back a bit, since it’s…

  • 7 Day Roguelike

    I’ve decided to try to participate in the 7-Day Roguelike challenge! I love roguelikes, and I’ve wanted to make one for a long time, so this seemed like a really good excuse. Switchbreak is doing the code! I’ll be coming up with design ideas and art. I’m excited to collaborate because I know that it…

  • Dive 2.0

    Dive is working again now, after my site outage yesterday.I took the opportunity of the crash to update it based on a couple suggestions. The big one is that colors will now change depending on your location in the story. Thanks to Porpentine for helping me figure that out!

  • Some DNS Issues

    Sorry – I had a temporary service outage. My blog hasn’t been too disrupted, but anything hosted on secondtruth.com, including my recent Twine game, isn’t functioning right now while they restore my backup web site. I hope to have everything fixed by tomorrow!

  • Eight Women I’ve Loved

    This Month’s Blogs of the Round Table is about our female role models. Though there’s lots of women in the industry whose work has inspired me, I’m going to talk about characters, because I’ve always had one foot planted in fiction while my foggy head travels the real world. I’m also not going to talk about…

  • I Made A Twine Game

    Cipher Prime had a game jam Thursday night. The theme was “vacation.” I was a little distracted, but I took it as an opportunity to learn Twine, the super-accessible hyper-text adventure game creator that’s sweeping the indie nation. I once tried to learn SCUBA diving on a vacation, so I made the game about that.…

  • Mostly, Some Spoilers about inFamous

    Last weekend I went out to IndieCade East and had a fantastic time! I’ll be posting more about that here later, but first let me direct you to Tap-Repeatedly where I posted an editorial about the idea of the Expo Game. This was specifically in regard to Hokra, with a detour into Monopoly and Starcraft and…

  • Now Playing: inFAMOUS

    To follow: some thoughts on the game called Infamous, which is stylized inFAMOUS or sometimes inFamous, and was released for Playstation 3 consoles in the year 2009. This is another one of those games that I missed when it was new due to lack of the proper hardware. I don’t think I will write a…

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