Tesseract's Game Development Journal, by Tesseract

Declarative Declarations

I haven't had much time to code this past week, but I have thought quite a bit about how the different parts of the game will fir together. Right now I am sorting out the logic of re-creating a biosphere from scratch, and how the elements of propagation an...

4e7-ish, or UFEC!

Wow, has it been a long time since I posted here.

The Unofficial Four Elements Contest ("UFEC") brought me out of hibernation, and has inspired me to put together a casual game.

Here are t...

Diving Back Into This Stuff

After some self-enforced exile from the game dev world, I am diving back in. After some extremely helpful feedback over at the Kongregate community I am working on TriGaVoid 1.5, which will be more of a professional effort and include things like achi...

Another Tutorial Uploaded

Quick note: I just uploaded a new tutorial to Kongregate. This one explains - with code - the formulae I used to build the Bad Guys...

Perlin Textures in Flash Tutorial

While I am ...

I Launched a Game!

Hello, everyone. Long time no see! Suffice to say, the final quarter of 2008 treated me very poorly in all aspects of my life.

Perlin Ants

2008.10.27 world...
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<h1>Another Week, Another Experiment</h1>
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Tile-based...
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<h1>Gyruss Clone - Against the Horde</h1>
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Gyruss, against th...
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<h1>Weekly Gyruss Clone Update</h1>
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Gyruss-like Flash gam...
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<h1>More Spiral-ey Things</h1>
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I just posted an update to the Gyruss clone. It includes one cosmetic change - the color palette of...

An Iteration, A Combination

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Passages, All Alike

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In my research into procedurally/randomly/runtime generating assets for Flash...