Halloween exchange with Dock
Posted: October 31, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: halloween, sketch Leave a comment »this is dock as EVA01 from neon genesis evangellion, didn’t know what to draw him as since I don’t know him all too well, at first I figured I could do him cosplaying bayonetta, whose clothes are her hair, but since this requires more hair than dock has it would be a naked dude with high-heel-guns, I figured that might be funny, but in the end I went with an evangelion costume, since, who doesn’t like evangellion?
(better plug the costume in or you'll only get 5 minutes trick-or-treating!)
you can see dock’s rendition of me in costume along with all his other halloween exchanges here, his stuff is awesome as always, I strongly recommend checking him out 🙂
Unity Tutorials, BCS talk at Glasgow Caledonian
Posted: October 27, 2010 Filed under: General Stuffs | Tags: talks, tutorials, unity 6 Comments »So I recently gave a talk at the Glasgow Caledonian University, which was more or less built on my world of love talk, but with a few extras and tweaks. if you want slides and my planned text, view this post in full to check that out if you like 🙂
Also I did a couple of Unity3D masterclasses, and some folks asked for some unity tutorials so as promised, here you are you guys 🙂
- unity3dstudent.com (Site by Will Goldstone, who wrote the book on unity)
- Infinite Ammo Tutorials (Alec Holowka knows his stuff)
- Introduction to JavaScript (good for beginner programmers)
- Unity user manual (might seem obvious but too many people overlook it)
- Unity script reference (covers everything plus it has example code)
also worth checking out:
- Unity Answers (someone has probably had your problem and solved it before)
- Unify Community wiki (lots of handy stuff)
- Unity Chat – irc.freenode.net/unity3d (friendly people who are helpful)
- Unity Forums (kind of a no brainer to check out this place :p)
- Google (plenty of other people are doing unity stuff, you might find it useful)
Ok, I think I’m all linked out for now, I hope that’s helpful, and of course if you are looking for help and cant find it, email me and I’ll try and point you in the right direction 🙂
next up is the talk, view this post in full to see it 🙂
Sophie’s Witch Game is now Lottie’s Dungeon
Posted: October 25, 2010 Filed under: Game stuffs, Lottie's Dungeon 1 Comment »
And it now has a proper website address and everything: lottiesdungeon.com
and I’l be making most lottie related blog posts on the devblogI set up there: lottiesdungeon.com/blog (expect a post soon about my first week of sales, with charts!)
I should point out in case anyone is concerned, if you have bought the game the download link you have will still work for new versions, since the web page is the same. (bought the game and don’t have a download link, you are not alone, email me and I’ll send you the address)
Witch Wednesday 1
Posted: October 21, 2010 Filed under: Game stuffs, Lottie's Dungeon | Tags: Lottie's Dungeon 8 Comments »yes, I know it’s thursday really, but I’ve been rather busy this week what with putting the game up for sale and figuring out this business stuff and all, I just wasn’t happy releasing the game as it was yesterday.
Sophie’s Witch Game
Posted: October 18, 2010 Filed under: Game stuffs, Lottie's Dungeon | Tags: Lottie's Dungeon 8 Comments »
What?
If you have been following my twitter, you already know this, but I’ve been working on this lately, and you can now buy it. go here.
The game is still in development, and I will be adding to the price as I add to the game.
I’ll use this blog here to post updates and news about the game, since I barely use this blog enough otherwise 😉 I’ll probably post every wednsday (since alliterative indie blog updates are all the rage what with Marian Mondays, Fez Fridays and now Witch Wednesdays), also Wednesdays are named for Odin, and Odin is a total dude.
What the game is aiming to be:
A few people have asked me to describe what the game will be when it is done, which is ambiguous since the game’s page only really lists future features. SO THEN! You will play as a witch, who is relatively new at being a witch. she has recently moved into the ‘original’ witches house, that borders the human world (Earth) and the magical world. witches being the only things of course that can enter both worlds. Our witch wakes one morning to find that the human world has been STOLEN! probably by one of her witch housemates, and is likely being taken to the bottom of their basement (which just so happens to be the huge magical world) to be sacraficed for evil bad stuff. So, our witch makes the hero’s choice and sets off into the basement to save the world!
buuuut its not going to be easy, hundreds of procedurally generated dungeons, caves, mountainsides, abandoned ancient cities and the like are between our witch and her destiny, and they are filled with all sorts of nasty things that want only to hurt her. She must learn new spells and craft new items to become strong enough to fight the monsters deeper in to the magical realm. as well as rescue her more trustworthy witch housemates for help along the way.
as well as this ‘story mode’, I shall be adding a suvival mode, with an infinite amount of dungeons with ever stronger enemies,in this mode the challenge is to get as deep as possible before you finally die, and this mode will have permadeath (if you die, no respawning, I may even have it delete the save data in that slot!)
gameplay wise, if you can imagine diablo, spelunky, and a sickeningly cute j-rpg all had a magnificent three-way and an even more magnificent baby, which is now in it’s rebelious teen phase and wants to be a shoot-em-up, that’s what I’m going for.
What about Sarah’s Run, when will that be ready?
I don’t know, but I do know it would take me longer to finish than my witch game, and I’m not at the point where I am happy to sell it yet, and frankly my financial situation is I need to be making some money right now, I enjoy working on both games, but for the time-being, my witch game is taking prority, Sarah’s Run is next on my to-do list, I have some wicked things planned for it 🙂
again, heres the link to my witch game, theres a free browser preview by the way 🙂