Partway through developing Entangled (* working title) I started to feel that it should be in 3D. I was comfortable with 2D, but I felt that the game might be more interesting and fun with an extra dimension. The game felt like it would have more potential in 3D. And the challenge of using 3D … Read moreEntangled* Dev Blog #2 – 3D or Not 3D
Entangled (*working title) is a puzzle platform game with a novel mechanic blended with physics in a science-fiction setting. You play as a robot with the ability to entangle objects to enable the solving of otherwise impossible tests…for reasons you learn over the course of the game. This dev blog is intended to show the … Read moreEntangled* Dev Blog #1 – Finding the Idea
In this dev blog, I like to tell little stories about the development process rather than focus on the progress of my game. I hope this gives readers a peek inside the world of making a game. In the course of making a video game, features come and go. In this article, I discuss two … Read moreThe Making of Mouse Dreams Part 4: A Tale of Two Mechanics
Here is a timelapse video I made of building a level in my game Mouse Dreams. It’s sped up (otherwise it would be very long and boring), and this level was already designed on paper before I started building it in the Unity editor. You can see how the layout was tweaked and improved as … Read moreDesigning a Mouse Dreams Level Timelapse
The article details how I went from wanting to make a game – but with no idea – through to finding and developing an idea through the process of development and prototyping. After finding myself with the time to make a new game (my third), I lacked one thing: an idea. I had prototyped a few … Read moreThe Making of Mouse Dreams: Part 1 – Getting Game Ideas