A free ebook written Bob Pape who coded the ZX Spectrum version of R-Type. It’s an excellent read! Link to the website: http://bizzley.com/ Original…
Found this today. There are also very good suggestions in the comments for similar developer journal-type reads.
Continuum of trying to bring games into making them active in the narrative and not observers of the narrative.
— Ken Levine on memoral VG character’s shared purpose.
An analysis of the first year of sales for our first game.
A little verse I made to a simple tune.
I’m planning on perhaps building more into it on another occasion.
Hooray for moments of melancholia.
(Source: SoundCloud / Chivalric)
Listening to Frank’s stuff while practicing sketching with Andrew Loomis’ “Fun with a Pencil”.
(Source: Spotify)
Finished another Game Maker Tutorial. I want to jump in and make something already ,but I want to finish every single tutorial and read up on the GML [game maker language] before I go ahead and make my own thing. Either way I might end up making something simple since I probably won’t be able to contain myself.
View Larger I have finished the first Game Maker tutorial! O_O
I know thousands before me have already done this, but that’s how one first begins right? Either way, I am proud of myself. Now on to harder stuff!
![So yeah. This is my second attempt at an original pixel art piece.
It’s pretty simple but hopefully after getting myself better acquainted with sketching and perspective I’ll be able to improve on pixeling as well. :]
Note: I posted this back on...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/e1245e84884377f0d419d57ebdc2d1a2/tumblr_mfvk8ak1Ef1s24jmqo1_400.png)
So yeah. This is my second attempt at an original pixel art piece.
It’s pretty simple but hopefully after getting myself better acquainted with sketching and perspective I’ll be able to improve on pixeling as well. :]
Note: I posted this back on Thursday, June 7th, 2012
I had to delete my previous blog (it didn’t have anything important really) since I wanted this as my main.