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Space Grunts 2 DEVLOG #10 – Are we on SCHEDULE?
A very tight schedule giving me only a few more weeks before we go into public early-access.. let’s see how far we are, and what’s left to work on before that happens? READ MORE
Space Grunts 2 DEVLOG #9 – Long list of changes
This week’s video covers most of the development work I did this last week, but there’s still some pondering going on about alien plant forms! READ MORE
Space Grunts 2 DEVLOG #8 – Creating alien plant life
Creating alien plant forms, more humanoid enemies and making it possible for all items to get damaged causing all sorts of problems when you use it.. it’s been a fun week in the world of Space Grunts 2 ! READ MORE
Space Grunts 2 DEVLOG #7 – Don’t mention the Space Pirates…
Drawing calls and drawing pixels, this week development of Space Grunts 2 was mostly about drawing in one way or another! Also finding out what makes the classic sci-fi look work! READ MORE
Space Grunts 2 DEVLOG #6 – Game progression, artwork and music
With this weeks video covering the mostly non-technical stuff, let’s dive a bit deeper into the other changes I made. This includes new camera code, but also new and more moody lighting. READ MORE
Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics- update v1.06b important fixes!
Two very important bug fixes, one fixing a lot of “budget” Android devices not being able to run the game beyond a black screen. The other bug fixing a problem with missions not being able to complete (or taking a LOT of levels) READ MORE
Space Grunts 2 DEVLOG #5 – Creature Creator and pixel-pushing
The heat-wave hits hard this week, so I traded my game-development for pixel-pushing and started drawing a bunch of stuff that the game still needs. Luckily there are still many aliens and tilesets to be drawn! READ MORE
Space Grunts 2 DEVLOG #4 – Interface and mouse controls
The major focus this week was on some reprogramming of the monster AI, by adding signal-maps to the game, allowing fun toys like signal-bombs to distract or lure aliens. I’ve also plugged in some funky A*-pathfinding mouse-controls and made sure that bomb-explosions now also cause walls to be destroyed.
All in all, a week with small but important changes to Space Grunts 2. Check out the video, and read the tech-blog by clicking! READ MORE
Devlog 3: Adding EXPLOSIONS, doors and cute aliens
Door generation with keycards and locks, a host of new cute little aliens, and some explosive additions to your card-deck in this weeks devlog! READ MORE
Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics – v1.0.4 and an Android Release!
A short list of maintenance bug features, preparing the game for next Tuesday’s Android release! READ MORE
Devlog 2: Shaping the world and adding a Twist
World generation and card battling.. Space Grunts 2 is getting a bunch of new features and changes in this weeks update! READ MORE
Devlog 1 : Setting the rules for a new project
A new game project starts here and it’s called: Space Grunts 2 ! Let’s first set some rules on what this game should be and limit ourselves so that we can, hopefully, have a short development cycle READ MORE
Gunslugs:Rogue Tactics Finally released! and first iOS patch update
The game is now available (on iOS) ! And a much overdue list of fixes, changes and improvements.. seems like I skipped a few versions in these blog-updates! READ MORE
Rogue Tactics: v0.8.0 – Manual aiming and BETA feedback
Trucks, guard-towers, sticky bombs and manual aiming are just some of the new things in this build. And that’s not even mentioning all the improvements on the “old” things in the game! READ MORE
GS:Rogue Tactics v0.7.0 – Redone skills, added socks and more!
Combining two big updates into one! Redesigning the way skills work and the whole skill interface, and of course a huge amount of fixes, changes and improvements! READ MORE
How to create TRAILERS for your GAMES
GS:Rogue Tactics v0.5.0 – FINALLY HERE.. look at that changes list
Let’s just release this build already, because the “change list” is overflowing! Final update before this game goes in a public-beta! so check what’s changed, new and improved! READ MORE
Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics v0.4.0 – 105 hours of work on new content and fixes!
Another flow to the game, new missions, new items, shops and even some new graphics. Not a bad couple of weeks working on the game. Read more for the biggest changes, and a full list of bug fixes and additions. READ MORE
DEVLOG Gunslugs 3: Creating an END BOSS
Gunslugs 3 – DEVELOPMENT COPY
A weekly Development-copy of Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics while it’s in development for the coming months. For $2+ Patreons! READ MORE
A pencil sketch turns into ANIMATED PIXELART
What am I WORKING ON!?
Gunslugs 3: Rogue Tactics
Gunslugs 3: Rogue Tactics is the title for my next game, or at least the working-title. The original Gunslugs (close to 4 years old?!) was my first attempt at adding some procedural and rogue-like elements to a platform run-and-gun game, and I did a bunch of things right, and … READ MORE
Post mortem on Meganoid 2017
Welcome to the Meganoid(2017) post-mortem, as promised a few weeks ago, this post-mortem goes into the details on the Meganoid figures and stats. Without context the stats are pretty much silly numbers, so please make sure to read all of this because there … READ MORE
Meganoid releases next week, what’s left?
A little less than a week to go, and this game goes live on all platforms (“all” as in: iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux).
So the game has been in Early-Access on Google Play for a while now, and it’s the … READ MORE
Meganoid now in Google Play Early Access
Releasing games often leaves room for experimentation. So I decided to check out the “Early Access” version of Google Play, and release Meganoid into it.
Basically this is a public BETA test of the game, but, that’s kinda what Early Access is at it’s … READ MORE
Achieving the implementation of the Meganoid achievements
Can you smell it? It’s the smell of a game release nearing.
It feels so long since I released my last game, but in fact it was just last June when Heroes of Loot 2 hit the stores. Now I’m preparing the release … READ MORE
Creating the Meganoid trailer, and working toward release
This is just a little teaser of the trailer I’ve been making this week. The full trailer is a little over a minute, and I’ll put it online when the game releases (cause it hopefully tickles people to go and buy the game when they see it!)
Creating the trailer I had a … READ MORE
Squeezing out the final polish on Meganoid
I’ve been hard at work on polishing the gameplay. There are now proper level-templates used for every world, so there is a real sense of progress and a real variation between the different area’s in the game.
Seeing as next week March starts, and my target date was March, it … READ MORE
Twitch: Pixels and code for a stargate !
I booted up the old Twitch.tv channel again this week, doing some game-testing and pixel-pushing. For more live streaming visit the channel here: Twitch.tv/orangepascal
All games should be roguelike-likes-lite-games!
Let’s not get into a fight: I’m not here to say what exactly a rogue-like is or isn’t.. but some elements of “rogue likes” should be in all games!
Meganoid comes with some of the rogue-like elements that I love in games. … READ MORE
Meganoid is alive
So another week with all my time put into the Meganoid reboot (still thinking about the name.. Meganoid reboot.. Meganoid 2017.. not sure yet).
Right now we actually have a fun playable game, I added the third environment (world) to the game, … READ MORE
Meganoid returns
Surprise! and not just for you, also for me! Creating a new game in the Meganoid universe has been an itch for a while now. I think I showed some early video’s from a new “Meganoid” game back in 2015 and then … READ MORE