Archive for the ‘Dev Diary #1’ Category

March 15, 2006 6 Comments

Prototype number 1

I’ve been very busy recently so the dev diary has been the thing that takes a back seat (again). Also I have never liked releasing things this early in case people aren’t impressed/ interested, or simply because I don’t want negative feedback. I have to keep reminding myself that this is the whole point of doing the development publicly. So let’s get it over with…

Prototype 1

Ok – Prototypes. I’ve never bothered prototyping games before, and to tell the truth ...

January 14, 2006 3 Comments

Dev Diary : Design

Well – I got a little behind with my dev diary. First Regulus became rather more popular than I expected, and then EbayEd sunk without a trace (FWIW I never expected it to be popular – it IS rather limited in appeal), I got accepted into the 9rules collective, and then there was Christmas. Now all that’s out of the way I can get back to making games.

Hoorah!

Story

Part of the design doc demo I downloaded says ...

October 18, 2005 1 Comments

Dev Diary : Feature Set

Now that I have a rough game design worked out I need to start figuring out what features will be included in the game.

The feature should be thought of as a baseline to work towards. New things may be added, and items may be changed, but in general this is the guide to which the game will be made.

General Features

First things first – the general features. These are the things that will decide the programming language and the recommended ...

October 2, 2005 0 Comments

Dev Diary : Game Design

Before working out what sort of game to make I need to find out what is in a design document. These are new to me so a quick Google threw up a handful of sites. The most likely was found at ihsoft which has a number of articles on game design and development. I downloaded the design document template (which can be found at the top of the page) and had a read. The document itself was pretty ...