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Last week Bungie announced that the Destiny Beta was open to the public. I didn’t hesitate one second to start my Xbox 360 and start downloading the beta. Overall, the game is very impressive and I enjoyed every second of playing it. Trying out the beta even made me reconsider to purchase Destiny. Below are some of my views on what I liked and disliked about the game.
This is just a quick announcement post to say that one day I will continue working on Nameless. For now the game is indefinitely on hold. Over the past few months, I have started to lose more and more interest in the game. This could be because I have not chosen a direction to take the game in or because I keep adding unnecessary features. Whatever the reason might be, I have decided that for the foreseeable future I am not going to work on Nameless.
One day I hope to continue working on Nameless. If not I would like to implement some of the features I had planned with the game into another game. I am sorry if this news disappoints anyone (I expect it doesn’t). However, the good news is that my first ever finished game, ADROIT, is out now! Therefore, you can take that as consolation prize, I guess.
During the past couple of few weeks whilst I was working on Nameless, I decided to start working on another game. This game was the recently released ADROIT. The game was going to be a small game to sort-of celebrate a year since I started game development. I decided to make this game as I had not completed one game yet from prototype to final release (I don’t count games made during game jams).
ADROIT is an endless vertical runner where the player has to dodge spikes at high speeds. Scrape along the sides, squeeze between spikes and dodge spikes at the last millisecond.
ADROIT is out today! I have been working on ADROIT for the past couple of weeks, whilst also continuing to work on Nameless. ADROIT is the first ever game I have made from beginning to completion. It is a casual game released for the Android platform. It is available to download from Google Play and Amazon Appstore. You can find screenshots, videos and press kits on the official ADROIT page. Did I mention it was free?
ADROIT is also my game for July 2014 for One Game A Month
This is the third development log update on my Nameless game. In this video I talk about all the updates since my last development log video. This includes the change in the game direction, change of art style, and what I am working on now for the game. I also state the release window for the game (it is not any time soon).
If you got any questions, feedback or ideas about the game then leave a comment or hit me up on Twitter.
This month was Low Rez Jam 2014 where the goal was to create a game with a maximum screen resolution of 32×32 pixels. The game could be about anything so the only limitation was my mind. I decided to create a game called Pixel Tournament 2014.
Over the last weekend was Ludum Dare #29. This was the first time that I participated in Ludum Dare. Ludum Dare happens every four months where the goal is to create a game in 48 hours. The theme for this Ludum Dare was ‘Beneath The Surface’. I created a game called Beneath The Game.
This was the second GM(48) game jam I had participated in 2014. GM48 is a game jam that happens every season (3 months) where the goal is to create a game using GameMaker Studio in 48 hours. The theme for this game jam was ‘Guns That Don’t Shoot Bullets’. I created a game called Arena Hunter.
This post is some shameless self-promotion of the game I recently made for the seven 7drl Challenge 2014, Wild West Roguelike. This is the first time where I have been getting positive reviews from a game I have made. So I decided to put all them nice mentions/reviews in this post. I will update this post if my game gets mentioned anywhere else as well.
So it is March now and that means its time for the annual 7drl (Seven Day Roguelike Challenge). Before I continue with this post let me state two important points:
So let me explain my two important points. I knew what a roguelike was but I never played one. I had seen them being played but I was usually put off by their graphics. But since games in recent years started to have roguelike features (which I found out I enjoy after playing the original version of Spelunky last year), I decided to look more into what a roguelike is. I first decided to actually play a proper roguelike which ended up being NetHack, a second generation major roguelike. I was surprised how much I enjoyed that. Whilst I was looking more into roguelikes I found out the 7drl was happening in a few weeks. Foolishly (or bravely, you decide) I decided to enter. The finished game will be submitted for 7drl 2014 and also for my March game for One Game A Month. Below is my development log of how the seven days got on.