I have a long commute to work. During my drive time I listen to audiobooks. I listen to many different things – comedy, fantasy (a lot of fantasy), science fiction, non-fiction, lectures – a varied mixture of genres. This past year I tried something different, I decided to catch up on all the classic sci-fi […]
There is a good deal of debate on the value to randomness in game design. Many designers have a snooty idea that randomness is a crutch. Other designers, especially board game designers, will tell you randomness is a key component of a successful, long lasting design. It’s easy to see randomness everywhere in games. Most […]
I am very excited to announce our latest update to Project Exonaut. It’s been a while since our last update but we have made up for the wait with a ton of new content. Atlas Exosuit – Penny Gumball’s crush, Penny is the Atlas equivalent to Banzai’s Bobo Haha, quite possibly the most dominant Exosuit […]
At some point in time you are going to have to cut the scope of your game. You are going to run into a resource issue be it time, money or people, or perhaps a certain feature took 10x longer to implement than planned. It’s going to happen. When scope cuts come, they feel like […]
New Exosuits We got to add Rigby and Skips from Regular Show! Rigby is a fast, Tridex-weilding exosuit. His Tridex deals many shots in a short, high-damage burst. Skips is a fast double-firing Ballista user. http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/exonaut Fixes We made some really important fixes. New players no longer get stuck at “LOADING” after initial exosuit selection […]
I just lost half a day to this issue, so I thought I would share this find so others can avoid this pitfall. We have a game that loads levels, these levels are individual asset bundles that are loaded at runtime. We tested a level and then made some changes. The changes didn’t show up? […]
New Exosuits! For our 1-year anniversary, we took the Ben 10 exosuit, gave it a coat of paint for both Atlas and Banzai. It’s cool to see the “poster” exosuit in the game. A Big Change There is an exciting change coming for Exonaut’s 1 year anniversary. Exosuits will no longer be level-locked – if […]
Mobile games are certainly the hot topic in the games industry right now, and rightly so. They are selling like hotcakes, and many of them are very, very good. I myself get very excited and buy many game. However, I never find myself playing them. I must have 50 games on my iPhone I have […]
After our successful holiday event, just a month later we added two new exosuits, Ultimate Kevin and Alien X from Ben 10. I was very happy to get to add these, as Alien X was easily the most requested exosuit on the forums.
I have made the jump from Flash to iOS development and the combination of the Corona SDK and TexturePacker has been super fast and efficient. I have set up a really fast workflow for creating my animations so I thought I would share. Photoshop Animation Panel The Photoshop animation panel is amazing. I animate faster […]