Digital Nomad – Year One
Today marks the anniversary of the day we departed* from our home country to live abroad for an extended and indeterminate amount of time. Six months ago, we’d lived in …
BuildDown, Monetized
Part 2 of a discussion of game design decisions made for BuildDown. Part 1 is here. BuildDown is a simple, action-oriented game, which made it somewhat challenging to figure out …
BuildDown, Redesigned
Part 1 of a discussion of game design decisions made for BuildDown. Part 2 is here. One of the first projects I wanted to tackle on the road was to …
Digital Nomad – 6 Months On
This week marks six months since we set out on this adventure of ours. In that time, we’ve lived in six different countries – Thailand, Malaysia, Portugal, Spain, Croatia, and …
Bindable Enumerations
As much as I love BindableValues, there are still some features that are frustratingly out of reach. First and foremost, I wish we lived in a world where enumerations in …
Digital Nomad
“We’re going to travel the world.” It sounds like such a glamorous affair. Opulent, even. But for us, the decision was profoundly practical.
GGJ2014: Unnatural Disaster
Global Game Jam 2014. It’s late Saturday night, on the eve of our home stretch. My team was well ahead of schedule. We’d gone with an unusual project, a card …
Event Aggregator
The next step up from simple events is the complete decoupling of the event publisher and event receiver through an event aggregator. Consider the case of a game over message. …
Liftoff
A while back I had an idea for a game about launching rockets. Way out of my comfort zone, right? Basically it would be a blend of the engineering and …