Recently, a couple of my older ideas have finally started seeing the light of day. Specifically, the air strike, transport saucer and flamethrower are finished now ( Read more... )

I don't know if I'll leave this in the game, or I just made it as a joke, but today I made a sort of "super spawn." Basically, if a Spawn survives for a while, it has a 50% chance of changing colour. If two Spawns of different colours collide, they create one "super" Spawn ( Read more... )

I know that at this rather late stage in the game's development it's probably not a good idea to start implementing totally new ideas. But today I came up with an idea that seemed so exciting I might just have to add it ( Read more... )

The TitanBot is coming along well, if not exactly effortlessly. Drawing the sprite(s) for it has been exhausting and although it looks good, its animation is still just a bit odd. But it will have to do ( Read more... )

Today I came up with the solution, I think, for one of the biggest obstacles toward speedy game development: long load times. On my old computer, each time I re-build the game to run it and try out new changes, it takes about 2 minutes to load the game. This makes it very time-consuming to make small adjustments to the game, and then try them ( Read more... )

Various things have distracted me from the game lately. I was working on a game for a competition for the local Game Development Guild (download it here: http://www.karenkaydesigns.com/TheLostShip1.3.zip). Then I started coding this goofy dynamic lighting engine ( Read more... )

The idea of making a random level generator never really left my thoughts completely, and on Sunday, I actually started making it. The hardest part was actually deciding what approach to take, but once I finally decided, it actually started moving progressing pretty smoothly ( Read more... )

After Christian died it was pretty hard to get back to work on the game. He was the one I used to talk to about it a lot, and he was the first person to play it besides me. I'm pretty sure he hadn't played the last two versions of it. I know he was losing interest in it. But still, for me to even think of him being gone is just...well, I just ( Read more... )

One of the most important things that makes the game entertaining to play is the robots' behaviour. The other day, I came up with an odd new kind of robot. Unlike the other robots, this one will serve a strictly defensive, as opposed to offensive, role ( Read more... )

The TitanBot is what I've been planning as being the ultimate evolution of the robots. It'll be the biggest, hardest robot in the game by far. I didn't want to start working on it until the game is actually close to being finished, but lately I've been getting more ideas for it so I'll just write them down now ( Read more... )