Vatn Squid: Postmortem
I have been getting a lot of questions about the process of creating this little game, so I'm going to do a mini-postmortem.
Play Expo 3.0
Saturday[1] marked the Play Expo [http://www.playexpo.org/], an event taking place in Whitewater Wisconsin where students and some Midwest Indies had yet another chance to show off all of their hard work from the year. I had the pleasure of entering in four of my games into
Midwest Gaming Awesome
The Midwest Game Fair in Green Bay was a great success! Super Space Rogues [https://rottentater.com/super-space-rogues] received top honors as the Best of Show recipient at the event, and I won a speed concept art competition with the drawing above. (The theme was 'Worst Day Ever'
Midwest Game Fair & Play Expo
ITT Tech Green Bay is hosting the 2010 Midwest Game Fair, and four of my games ( Fetus [https://rottentater.com/fetus], Vatn Squid [http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/shooter/vatn-squid/1672/], Thunder Gun [http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/action/thunder-gun/385/], and Super Space Rogues [https://rottentater.com/super-space-rogues]) have
Starting Up
After a half week of recovery from GDC insanity, I got together with a couple of guys who were interested in working with me on Visit III. Aaron Hoffman [http://twitter.com/aaron_hoffman], an amazing programmer currently acting as project manager for the Heatbees' game Existence, was very
We're Back
GDC was a blast! We got a chance to show off all of our work from the last year, and the Heatbees team made some really awesome connections. I especially got a lot out of being able to demo my work at our booth (paid for by the school). GOOD
GDC Time
I wanted to let everyone know that I'm leaving for San Francisco to attend the Game Developers Conference! Several other students and I from my university have been selected to attend the event, the only stipulation being that we each do a little time at the booth our
Vatn Squid
Deep sea research meets bullet-hell-squid-boss action! Activate your submersible's shield power to absorb bullets, converting them to missile power used to shoot back at the ten different teuthidan foes.
Super Space Rogues
Upgrade your ship and search a procedurally generated solar system for ways to repay $50,000 of cargo to the system's crime boss, or maybe you can get away with cheating him a second time...
Fetus
Join Aramas on his peregrination to escape the silent and evil geometry of the Abyss: navigating space, blocking lasers, and avoiding its unsettling inhabitants.
Descent
We're in a place beyond time and space — we encounter the ghostly being of Evil, who relentlessly taunts Aramas to stop delving deeper into the Abyss.
Visit II
Our brave interstellar civilization-hunter returns, and this time, he brought a friend! Solve even more puzzles on your journey to the first signs of life on Mee-mah: the Dark Tower...
Visit
Wander and puzzle your way during your visit to the cute landscape of planet Mee-mah in search of a lost civilization and its secrets.