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| Developer Journal - 6 days, 8 hours ago S.H.I.P C.R.A.F.T.E.R - Update #3: 382 Items so far! - By boolean The game is at http://shipcrafter.stillholdsup.com Ok, it was painful but it's done. The game now has 382 damn items in it, so there should be enough content to progress all the way to level 20... |
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| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 3 days ago ViewTiled - A small tool for artists - By Servant of the Lord When I work on pixel art , I use MS Paint and Paint Shop Pro 11 . It works fine for me making simple game graphics, though I'm sure professionals would prefer something else .When making pixel... |
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| Status Update - 2 weeks, 3 days ago swiftcoder My compiler now has 3 passes, and I haven't even started semantic analysis yet... |
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| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 5 days ago S.H.I.P C.R.A.F.T.E.R - Update #2: A whole bunch of items! - By boolean http://shipcrafter.stillholdsup.com So I just finished building out around 150 items for the game. That was exhausting 0_oAll the items I've added are system modules which means once there are... |
| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 5 days ago If It Weren't February, We'd Have An Alpha - By meh.team I hate the month of February. I completely despise it. I detest it, and to keep the "d"s going, it disguists me. It's the start of the longest and most borring stretch of school we have... |
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| Developer Journal - 3 weeks, 1 day ago Blood pumping, heart racing, I can almost smell the pixels in the air - By Servant of the Lord 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)... |
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| Developer Journal - 3 weeks, 2 days ago been a while... - By LarryADaniel82 Ok, its been a couple of weeks since I was here and I've accomplished alot and nothing all at the same time. I ordered some books from the site and have been studying pretty hard.I ordered intr... |
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| Developer Journal - 3 weeks, 6 days ago ViewTiled - A small tool for artists - By Servant of the Lord When I work on pixel art , I use MS Paint and Paint Shop Pro 11 . It works fine for me making simple game graphics, though I'm sure professionals would prefer something else .When making pixel... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 6 days ago Working on the plot - By Servant of the Lord http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4057/73443946.pngI'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... |
| Developer Journal - 1 month, 1 week ago On our way to an Alpha... and more? - By meh.team As we get further along in our development it seems that the finish line keeps moving further away. Fix a problem, more begin to arise. Write a side story, discover that the main story doesn't... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 1 week ago Playing Games in The Name Of Research - By meh.team Any of you guys seen that art institutes commercial? Ya know what I'm talking about, the one with the game director for God of War III. While doing some lore work for "This World", his... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 2 weeks ago It finally has a name! - By meh.team Well our game has a name and so I am going to tell you now and give it a decent description. Drum roll please...This World Ain't Big Enough This is going to be a mmo... |
| Developer Journal - 1 month, 2 weeks ago Ship Crafter - Semi-Launch and looking for alpha testers - By boolean So for the last few months I've been working on a little browser game called (for now at least) S.H.I.P C.R.A.F.T.E.R. It's a pvp focused browser game set in space where you buy ships, buy... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 2 weeks ago Apologies and Headaches - By meh.team So I must first start this off with apologizing to the "writing for games" forum users for my triple post. Internet lagged and i don't know what really happened. Anyways it's fixed... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 2 weeks ago Future of Gaming: Facts - By LoreHunter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=219YybX66MY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW8rgKLPHMghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel Wiki article on Voxels.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 2 weeks ago Full Internet Resources! - By meh.team Well I finally set us up. We got a Twitter, a Facebook, a website, and even a donate button from PayPal. Anyone interested in the game should definitely check them all out. Read my other posts for... |
