Pixel → Tile → World

A few days ago, I finally finally started working on the AdventureFar code again, instead of monkeying around with tools. For the record: I completed one large tool (to assist in plot development) and one minor tool (to assist in tile art) both that I'll release next week for free, and two or three really minor tools that are in-house only, and I was...

I've been working on the plot of AdventureFar some more. One of my brothers and I are kinda passing the plot back and forth; I wrote the first general draft, he redacted some, rewrote some, and expanded some, and now I'm redacting, rewriting, and expanding some more, and we'll...

Three journal posts in three days, after 30 days of silence. I must be on a roll! Except, uh, none of them are about progress on my RPG project.

My brother recently observed over the phone that,...

As part of my cleaning up and organizing files, as mentioned in my previous post, I decided it'd be a good idea to backup the almost 30GB of DRM-free indie games I've purchased over the past few years.

I happened to have on-hand 20 blank DVDs with cases which I...

I've been busy working on a number of small cool tools, more info on that in a future post.

I've also been busy doing some "spring cleaning" (in the middle of winter) of my computer.
My dev machine (Also known as 'my computer', seeing as it's the only one I have) is starting to show it's age (bought in the fall of 2007),...

I'm just stepping in for a moment, to highlight the very fun game called 'At a distance' by Terry Cavanagh, the same guy who made VVVVVV ( you should go play that one too, if you haven't...

As mentioned previously, I've been working on some small side-tools apart from AdventureFar for a few months. More on that some other day. However, whenever I can't bring myself to work on code, I just open up MS Paint and Paint Shop Pro, and start working on game graphics.

For fun, I just compiled and tossed up a few more tile art packs on...

I'm back, with some news about AdventureFar's status. The status of AdventureFar is: I haven't... actually made any... progress on it's status...

Now before my nonexistent fans eagerly awaiting this game break into a riot and start...

I've been working on AdventureFar for six months now (since the 26th of December, 2010).
I've been working on the Map Editor for even longer; almost one year (Since about July 10th, 2010).
I've had a general goal and concept in mind for about eight months.
I've been journalling about it for about five months (since...

Map load speeds

I've been chugging on and off with optimizing AdventureFar's load speeds. This is a very important part of AdventureFar - I must have seamless loading between areas... and now I do!
I had to rewrite the entire map...

How the scoring works: I score 0 to 5 points on...

How the scoring works: I score 0 to 5 points on each topic. Each point is equivalent to 0.5 points on the overall scoring. So each topic can contribute a total of 2.5 points to the overall score of 0 -...

I did reviews of every single submission, barring a few that wont run or that I couldn't download. You can read them all here.

All in all, my favorite entries are (in order of best ones first):
First place: Bubble Time (by...

I don't want to do a more extensive review of this game, since it's clearly in a very incomplete state. I'll just hit some bullet point comments.
No real goal other than 'survive'.The ship looks kinda cool, but it's disapointing that the level has no boundries and just ends.Despite the menu screen promising music,...

How the scoring works: I score 0 to 5 points on each topic. Each point is equivalent to 0.5 points on the overall scoring. So each topic can contribute a total of 2.5 points to the overall score of 0 -...