My newest game experiment is up.It's TurboGarbageTruck... a name and concept stolen entirely from my son. So... not really my idea.I have a theory that feedback on a game (or quite probably an...

rebootOkay, I’ve been working on the same project for ages. In multiple languages, and a couple different frameworks. My plan from the outset was to create something small so that I could lea...

previous posts in this series Intro Randomization Engagement Asymmetry Before writing this I tried really really hard to think of a sport that is asymmetric. Baseball and Cricket are played as...

previous posts in this series Intro Randomization If it wasn’t already painfully clear, I really am not speaking from a place of authority here. I really don’t know if what I’m writing is accura...

Randomization Most, if not all games, contain some element of randomization. I’m talking games here, all games, not just video games. Ball bounces, dice rolls, card shuffles, are all complex enoug...

just a quick aside.Before I put up my post on randomization in video games, I thought I should make a comment on the latest build of "colour game" (working title).The latest build of the game is up...

Space Invaders That’s it. I’m making space invaders. Enemy blips locked in an inevitable march toward one lone protagonist. I think I come by it honestly. An awful lot of video games are space in...

Months ago I wrote a checklist. I did a breakdown of my short and long term to do's. When I went to look them over today I found that I had done them. all of them.umm... I sort of didn't expect tha...

New Graphics!Yay!'cept they are only marginally better than the old graphics, you might say. you would be right. but the groundwork is there for them to improve a bit at a time now. The old version...

So my UI design was lousy. really really lousy.but that is A-OK.See, the real purpose of doing this game... and writing this blog, is just to learn.I set about the task of creating a throw away gam...