Tag: indie game dev

Balloon Chase Vehicle – Dev Log Week 2

3:30pm – 2:45am | +11.25 Hours Dev Time | 19.25 Hours Total Dev Time

9:56 PM – 2:45 AM


  • 2:45 am Calling it a night, will come back to the movement code with fresh eyes another time!
  • around 1 am, we are getting burnt out, not much is working with the movement code.
  • Posted screenshot of the title screen artwork on twitter
  • More working on getting to know Unity
  • Amazing Idea for a level: Moon Level!
  • Worked more on artwork, working on a promo/possibly title screen

7:26 PM – 9:56 PM


  • Dinner was awesome, who said Louisville doesn’t have any authentic Mexican Food?
  • Played some Super Mario World for physics research, (photo) trying to nail down some smooth acceleration and momentum carrying into jumps
  • Worked on some art elements for the first level, trees, mailboxes, fire hydrants, clouds…

6:58 PM – 7:26 PM

  • Made some adjustments to Mono, like dark color scheme: Check that out here
  • Creating a simple movement script in C# for player movement, based on our two-button scheme, go and jump

6:10 PM – 6:58 PM

  • Talked over control scheme for keyboard/controller/touch scenarios
  • Talked about dinner -Mexican!
  • Looking at some tutorial videos, thanks Youtube!

3:30 PM – 6:10 PM

  • We have decided to use Unity for the Balloon Chase Vehicle.
  • Learning about Vectors and UnitVectors from Anthony
  • Thinking about stuff

Squid Game Dev Log – Pill Sprites and Video

Awesome things:

Using Orthello to achieve 2d sprite animation in Unity3D I found a cool setting called “Start on random frame” on the Animating Sprite which allows me to have my pill spites rotate independently – which adds a cool little visual.

Also I am learning how Hinge Joints work for attacking my seaweed sprites to the floor and allowing the player to collide with them and cause them to jostle a bit. I set the z axis (depth) to different amounts for each seaweed, and some are jostles more or not at all depending on the depth relative to the player.

I am obsessing over tiny details, but really fun!
Unity3d is crazy on options.

Squid Game Dev Log – awake meter and seaweed

Okay so, here’s where I’m at with the squid game.

I have added and have been working on a debug level where I will try out different physics stuff, objects, terrain types, and eventually enemies.
One of my friends had a cool suggestion that though the course of the game you upgrade your bed to a full, queen and eventually king size, seems like the perfect nonsense for the game!

Squid Game Dev Log – re-done sprites!

(above) This is when the character takes damage in the game.

(below) The whole point of the game, avoid letting the squid fall asleep!

I will post some of the animated sprites soon, but they arent refined and smooth yet so I will wait.

Click on the images to view the Deviantart page, and comment, or leave a comment below.

Indie Game

So I noticed this movie when I was flipping though Netflix and thought I would check it out, it’s called Indie Game The Movie, ( you can check it out here: bit.ly/Km3WmG )

Indie Game: The MovieThe movie itself was really well made, and followed the surprisingly interesting and emotional stories of some unique game developers. These developers don’t work on 1000-person teams for the big guys like EA or Nintendo, instead they work from home or in small offices with teams of one or two people. They are passionate about their creations, and all of them spoke of some part of themselves going into thier work. The great thing about the Indie realm is that they made a big distinction between where (mainstream)games have gone, and the games they loved as a kid. The all talked about Mario, Megaman, Metroid, Zelda – the classics, and were quite frank when giving their opinions about games like Call of Duty and Halo being crap. The movie stirred up the plan I always had when I was a kid, my first dream career was always a video game developer. I used to draw characters from games I loved, but mostly my own I dreamt up, I even tried to make some of my own games in the past using flash but never got too serious with it. After watching the movie  I was inspired again and I started a new side project – a game.

Game Concept Sketch

Squid HTML5 Canvas jQuery javascript Game PreviewMy plan is to create a game using HTML5 Canvas and jQuery/JavaScript that will be playable in browser, or on the iPhone. Another part of this goal is that the game works well, and fits a comfortable button-mapping to an SNES controller.  The underlying reason for this project, like with TouchTint, is that in addition to it being a possible source of income, it will be a big learning experience. I don’t yet have a goal of how big or involved the game will be, but I will include a link to the in-progress version so you can check it out if you want, and see how far along I am.  Hopefully there will be much more to come as I continue on with this idea!