A few months ago I was writing posts here on the state of my little UDK project. Since then it’s been rather quiet on here but that’s not because the project ended. If you are following me on Twitter then you will have spotted that work was still happening but the update posts had moved [...]
In ten years of games development I have never worked on a game where the resulting product paid more than a passing resemblance to what was originally designed. Such is the way with an inherently creative process like videogame design.
I have returned from a weeks holiday with a brand new eye infection (or an allergy nobody is willing to commit just yet) and as such I for once have an awesome reason for having done no new work on my UDK game. However there is more recent footage on the interwebs than my youtubes [...]
February 18, 2010 – 10:34 am
I’ve been reading The Paradox of Choice again. It’s one of those books that has actually caused me to try and change the way I live my life and so far it’s turned out for the better. The argument put forward is that when faced with too much choice people will often choose nothing at [...]
January 20, 2010 – 12:01 pm
My UDK project is not dead. However at the moment I don’t have anything crazy awesome to show as I’m working on “The Boring Bits”. This includes the UI, Scoring and Online Scoreboards. I find procrastination tends to set in at the end of my projects because of these boring bits and because I don’t [...]
December 21, 2009 – 10:54 am
Good morning! This is in danger of becoming a regularity but don’t worry! I’m away for the next 2 weeks so there is no danger of this becoming a regular feature just yet. Lets start with the video: The most notable addition this week is a new enemy called a “Bumble”. Bumbles are so named [...]
December 13, 2009 – 6:24 pm
I’ve been working on my UDK game a little bit at a time, mostly on weekends. So to update: I decided to ditch my efforts to make a physics based puzzle game for two reasons: The cap on angular velocity. I wanted to make a game where you get to blow things up. If I’m [...]
November 19, 2009 – 1:29 pm
So a couple of weeks ago now Epic released the Unreal Development Kit and lots of people rushed to download it (some 50,000 apparently). They all then rushed to the forums to ask how you make a game. Fortunately I’m an old hand with Unreal, starting back in 2000 modding Deus Ex and then progressing [...]
August 5, 2009 – 12:45 pm
[Via Gizmodo] To the right you can see a graph plotting the total money spent by consumers on music since 1973 divided into different media. There is a clear trend here of one new media type taking sales away from it’s predescessor. Until you get to the drop off in CD sales. Now the RIAA [...]
