So, you’ve decided to take part in your very first ever Ludum Dare… congratulations! I’m assuming you don’t know what you’ve got yourself in for, so just remember: your primary objective is to finish something that (even vaguely) resembles a game. It doesn’t have to be good, it just has to be. Here are a […]
Another bit of earwax unearthed from the 2005 archives! This one is pretty good, not withstanding all the Thomas Dolby/Beastie Boys copyright infringement.
Ok, Apple comes out with a brand new programming language. Creating a new programming language is the absolute surest way to invite a hurricane of internet pain from coders worried they’ve bet on the wrong horse. Generally they’ll try to shout at the horse until it dies – mostly with nasty tweets. Yet somehow Apple […]
Ludum Dare 29 delivered us the theme “Beneath the Surface”, and I, in turn, delivered my first Ludum Dare novelty offering: Metal Meter Madness. It was my attempt at an 80s 8bit english-humour style farce in the style of Jet-Set Willy or Hover Bovver. However, due to hang-over-ness and appartment hunting, the wackiness meter never […]
A couple of recent tracks for ma games: Oscillator & Mister Moonboots. Excuse the abrupt halt to Mister Moonboots… he’s supposed to loop oop oop.
One week ago I would have sworn that Flappy Bird was a case of beautiful dumb luck: some guy threw a bunch of out-of-the-box elements on a screen, and accidentally created a world-wide phenomenon. But after subjecting it to scrupulous analysis during the process of “accurately” cloning it, I discovered so many fundamentally important details […]
Bust out the champagne (or the chartreuse, if you’re feeling game): Mister Moonboots has been released on the App Store! Rush and play it 3 times now, then go and rate it 5 stars (if you loved it) or 4 stars (if you’re a heartless miser who wishes to suck all traces of joy from […]
Well, that escalated quickly. PLAY NOW!, come back for detail later.
The creator of the current smash-hit game “Flappy Bird” is either a certified genius or an authentic wacko. In either case, this game ignores every rule of good design: plopping you into your own personal crazily-addictive fire-y hell of casual gaming. All you can do is suppress your rage, grit your teeth, and try yet […]