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He / Him, Bachelor of Fine Arts, self taught programmer, solo gamedev, iPad mini fan.

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For me personally, a vital part of the Designing a Dungeon process is to sit in a park and design the dungeon.

#DungeonDesign #DesigningADungeon

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@vampiress you know what's the size of a notebook? An iPad mini.

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@vampiress

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@vampiress sign me up

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@vampiress iPad Quantu... wait no thats a samsung product now

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If I had a very stupid cat I would call it Braincell.

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@vampiress if it ran away would it then be Freecell?

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#Coffee: the most important ingredient in the making of a video game
https://eigenmagic.net/@vampiress/112306362358010655

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@vampiress ah cof#e

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This week's blog post is a bit of a lore dump, but also a reflection on what "story" and “narrative" can mean within games, and why I tend to prefer building systemic games over narrative ones.

Also: enjoy a big robot smashy shooty gif.

https://www.anchoritegames.com/posts/05-04-24_balancing-act.html


An Exo (big robot) charges behind a gigantic log pile amid a desolate landscape, hides for a second then pops out, opening up it’s quad vulcan cannons on an unsuspecting Commonwealth tank and mech column before darting back into cover.

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This week: the first proper art pass implemented into the game!

Definitely feeling like it's turning up to be something!

https://www.anchoritegames.com/posts/08-03-24_art-pass.html

#gamedev

A giant robot blowing the ever living hell out of some buildings with quad vulcan cannons. viewed from first person perspective inside the robots cockpit.

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    @vampiress

    Delete Old Man GIF

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    @vampiress I’ve been using rss readers for nearly 15 years. They’re great. A slightly nicer looking one would be cool, but they’re super functional as is.

    Currently using Unread

    https://apps.apple.com/au/app/unread-an-rss-reader/id1363637349

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    @vampiress don’t tempt me. Been working with building rss for my website, surely it’s easy enough to build a design layer on top of an rss reader… surely

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    This week I spent my time on the games HUD. Trying to make it look distinct, interesting, and letting it convey necessary info, whilst making it respond to not only screen sizes, but orientations and controller layouts has been... challenging…

    https://www.anchoritegames.com/posts/26-01-24_heads_up.html

    A screen cap of Exoloper showing a user interface interaction when a user presses a button on their keyboard (or controller).

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    And yes, this interaction model is directly inspired by StarCon2.

    a screencap of Star Control 2, The Ur Quan Masters Hypermelee mode, showing pressing buttons having a direct on screen representation via character avatars.

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    @vampiress as previously mentioned, Ice that coffee

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