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 […]
My transition to a Mac developer was a bit tough. My biggest lament was giving up FlashDevlop on Windows, my favorite code editor for Actionscript and its counterpart for Unity, UnityDevelop. This didn’t affect me too much until I started my iOS game in Corona SDK, using Lua, and was coding daily. I was using […]
Update We have another event for Project Exonaut! To compliment the Adventure Time holiday special, we made our holiday event Adveture Time themed. Event Features: All Adventure Time exosuits (Finn, Jake, Marceline, Ice King and Princess Bubblegum) unlocked Players get 4x XP for playing as Adventure Time exosuits. Helix Grenades are snowballs and player receive […]
Update It’s hard to believe the last update to TKO was over a year ago but we got to make another TKO update for the Ben 10/Generator Rex cross over. We added the following bots: Upgrade Rex (Ben 10/Rex crossover) Bobo Haha (Generator Rex) Van Kleiss (Generator Rex) Agent Six (Generator Rex) Clockwork (Ben 10) Shocksquatch (Ben […]
My daughter is 3 and her school was having a Halloween party. They need someone to bring and run a game for the kids. Why not just design a new game? I approached this design as I do all other designs, nailing down goals and constraints. – audience: 3-4 years olds. – goals: a game […]
After upgrading my 3Gs to iOS 5, Xcode would not recognize my iPhone for development. It just listed my phone with the old version of the iOS, not connected. After updating Xcode through the app store, (which does not actually update Xcode, you have to find and run the installer in your Applications directory) Xcode […]
This was my second year at Austin GDC and again, it was fantastic. Austin GDC feels like GDC used to when it was held in San Jose, there is little press, no games reveals, no glitz and glamour. Just developers coming to meet, network and share their experiences and knowledge. It’s a great places to […]
There is an update coming for Exonaut soon and I am putting in some balance changes as well. This is all based on win/loss data for the exosuits. Ultimate Swampfire’s weapon mod damage increased slightly Bobo Haha’s weapon mod damage decreased slightly Flapjack’s weapon mod damage increased slightly Johnny Test’s weapon mod damage increased slightly Ultimate Humungousaur’s weapon mod damage increased […]
Design Goals One of the design goals for Exonaut was to not get caught in the “expansion for only high-level players” content trap. Many games do this and while you may be serving the most active and most vocal players, you will be serving a minority of your players. This is why Project Exonaut is set up so we […]
Recently we put our our first balance patch for Project Exonaut. Here is an overview of the process, data and how I reached the decisions of what to change. Assumptions I wanted to write down some assumptions before I dove into the data to see if my instincts would be correct about where improvements were […]