The subject of difficulty makes for interesting debate. There is a trend these days of making easier games to reach wider audiences. Is that a good thing? Back in the days of the Nintendo NES and SNES, games were much harder as a general rule, particularly when talking about modern Nintendo or casual games –…
This tutorial is the first in a new series aimed at absolute beginners who want to learn how to program and make games. Even if your interest isn’t games, these tutorials will give you a thorough grounding in the basics of C# programming you can apply in other areas. Later series will build on these…
If you’ve ever wanted to write a script that could make your sprite flash a different colour or turn them transparent in Unity, there’s an easy way. The following code is C#. Sprite Renderer You’re sprite is contained in a component called the Sprite Renderer. Now if you click on “Color”, you can manually change…
I’ve mentioned Mark Brown before as a game design channel you should watch. One of his more recent videos is on the game design of Mega Man 11. Making a platformer is something I’ve always wanted to do, and with Super Mario Maker 2 coming out soon for Nintendo Switch, I really enjoyed watching his…
I was reading an article yesterday by the developers of Slime Rancher. It talks about crunch in the industry, but gives a unique perspective of their own experience. According to the article, they have maintained 40 hour work weeks, and furthermore, do not believe they have made a successful game despite those hours – they…
Yes, I know it’s been out for a long time, but I resisted. Not anymore. My friends have all been playing it, and I partly avoided it because I knew it would be addictive – I didn’t want anything to get in the way of study. Now that study was over, my excuses were thin.…
One of the people I respect is Bart Bonte. He’s put a lot of puzzle games out and has had a successful blog running for quite some time. I also heard he recently got to 500k players on his game Black. Well, Bart put an article out recently on how he’s become a successful mobile…
This year has been one heck of a year. In fact the last three years. I’ve disappeared into the world of study, doing study in programming and then post-graduate studies in business. Now that time is about to end. This means I will have the time to be a lot more active on this blog.…
I’ve given hints of a new puzzle gaming coming. Now it’s time to announce that game in full. Puzzledorf. Puzzledorf has been in development for a couple of months now. I’m hoping it will be ready for release in 2019. As I am a solo developer and caught between work and post-grad study in business,…
This post is part of a series in learning how to make games with PuzzleScript. If you haven’t read my previous tutorials, I recommend you do so here, as that is assumed knowledge for this post. The Action Command By now we know how to walk around, push blocks and pull blocks, but what if we…
Sometimes you might want to check what’s next to an object. You might want to check if a duck is sneaking up behind you, or you might want to create blocks that can only be pushed horizontally, but not vertically. We can do this without too much difficulty.
I’m always on the lookout for good sources of materials on Game Design. One such source is Mark Brown’s Youtube Channel. He does a really amazing job at looking at different games or topics and breaking them down in really understandable and interesting ways.
