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Mostly technical ramblings through the years of indie game development
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October 28, 2010
I'm Alive
Holy christ, will my house ever be finished?

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March 16, 2010
busy busy!
Work has been moving along with Morning's Wrath 2; I have had a change of EDIGames development manifesto recently, now that I've been on the path of game development for roughly a decade; hopefully more on that in a later post.


I've been focusing a TON of time on the gameplay and interface,
here is a…
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EDI
January 13, 2010
Similar Ideas
Noticed this article GameDev.net today. While it is concerning mostly MMOs, the tool they've created embraces a lot of the concepts I designed in Selenite:

-automatic data sharing (images, meshes, etc.)
-known resource data coverage/usage
-strong structuring of environments
-removal of monolithic file…
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January 04, 2010
A brief talk about Selenite
I've spent the last month tweaking and revising Selenite, getting it ready for licensing and the production of bigger and better games.

Development of Selenite began in Jan 2009, so that makes it officially 1 year old; having already written and released a game with it (STATIC: Investigator Training…
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EDI
December 23, 2009
It's the holiday season!
So aside from trimming the tree, Christmas cookies and mistletoe; I've been working away.


STATIC: Investigator Training

About two months out now, sales are so/so; more would be nice, but every little bit counts; it's awesome to have created another game, of a very different style and managed to sell …
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EDI
December 03, 2009
Busy, Busy... So Busy!
Greetings folks!

So, lots on my plate these days:

Enjoying the Holiday Season

Gotta have some fun, or whats the point right?

Jacki and I are heading up to the White Mountains of New Hampshire this weekend to get our XMass tree, as we do every year; it is a fun getaway and a great tradition :)


Finishing …
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EDI
November 21, 2009
STATIC: Investigator Training has been Released!
After a slight delay from our Halloween deadline, we are happy to say that STATIC: Investigator Training is now finished!

You can now find the full game for $9.95 on www.staticgame.com

We hope you all enjoy playing STATIC as much as we enjoyed making it!

I'd also like to thank my wife Jacki for design…
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EDI
October 13, 2009
No Rest for the Weary when it comes to Game Develo
Jacki and I had a hugely productive weekend; and the Static: Investigator Training Demo is almost finished; you can expect to find it on www.staticgame.com this week.

Hunkering Down:

So in an effort to keep development smooth through Static: IT and into Morning's Wrath 2; Jacki and I have moved our d…
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October 08, 2009
Let's Beta Static: Investigator Training - DEMO
We're gonna be Beta Testing the Static: IT DEMO this weekend/monday; and if you're a member of The Copper Group, you can too!
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October 07, 2009
Static: Investigator Training - Development Cunrch
Detailing the pitfalls and victories of a weeks worth of hard development crunch, Watch it on www.EDIGames.com
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October 06, 2009
EDIGames on Zazzle
After years of folks asking where they can get EDILogo t-shirts and such, we decided to launch a Zazzle site for EDIGames if anyone needs anything custom feel free to drop us a line.

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October 02, 2009
Subversion Intergration
Just finished added Subversion integration into the Selenite Editor; now I can Import, Checkout, Update and Commit all from within my IDE with a single click. :)
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September 21, 2009
Website Under Construction
Don't mind the man behind the curtain... or the tons of broken links.

Everything should be back soon :)
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September 09, 2009
New Animations for Morning
New Run/Idle/Warp animations for Morning; in addition to a change to the control system. As always, work in progress :D


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September 03, 2009
Work In Progress - Lust Gate Materialization Effec
For your viewing pleasure :)
A combination of a custom pixel shader, and the color-system.
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August 26, 2009
New Website logo/template Work In Progress
Our first Press Release, announcing Morning's Wrath 2: Caverns of the North is coming very soon; so time to finally give the ol' site a rework:

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August 19, 2009
Prototype Spell: Orbit Shield
Two videos (with slightly borked timestep from video frame drop)
showing a prototype for a spell in MW2 called Orbit shield, which picks up environmental debris and whips them around you at a fixed distance creating a ring of rotating matter that can both protect and harm enemies; me likey :)


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August 17, 2009
Relaxing game development
Here is a small video of some pre-alpha physics game play integrated over the weekend.
http://www.edigames.com/mwcotnv10.wmv

http://www.edigames.com/mwcotnv11.wmv


The last couple of weeks have been quite relaxing; Selenite has been making short work of integrating graphics int MW2, and I am confident …
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EDI
August 04, 2009
MW2 coming along
Getting the maps into the MWCotN project in Selenite :)

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August 03, 2009
Not Dead :D
I'm still here, Just finished a full remodel of my bathroom... kinda tired :)

I foresee before and after pic posting :D

Also, received the final map-art delivery for MW2, so I've been getting that all organized, trying to solidify the plan for getting MW2 out around November.


More on that and Selenite…
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EDI
July 28, 2009
GUI Part 2: A simple example
In my last post I spoke about how writing your own game GUI was a long and difficult task a best; and how using different technologies for different needs can save you time.

I'm going to explain my GUI needs for Selenite (notably the Win32 runtime) and show how I've used multiple systems to expedite…
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