Monthly Archives: December 2008

Feedback, feedback, feedback

By Alex Schearer | December 30th, 2008
In order to make a compelling game you need to get as much feedback as possible. Of course it’s easier said than done. Personally, I’ve always had trouble soliciting feedback for my projects. Today I’m going to touch on a few things I’ve learned about how to gather feedback. It’s too late for me to [...]

Make Some Noise: Sound Effects for Your Next Game

By Alex Schearer | December 24th, 2008
Just going to do a quick update this week as it’s the holidays and I’m super busy with my family and with Shade (but more on that later!). This week I want to share a tool I recently discovered which quickly became an essential part of my game development tool box. Naturally, I’m talking about [...]

Game Art on the Cheap

By Alex Schearer | December 15th, 2008
This weekend I needed to do a few things in Photoshop. Specifically, I wanted to create a few UMLs and touch up some of the artwork in Shade. Since I hadn’t messed around in Photoshop in some time, and also because I have been mostly working on Shade for a while, I took the opportunity [...]

Why Git? Local Repository

By Alex Schearer | December 8th, 2008
There are many reasons to use [git][1], but right now I’m just going to share one of the main ones, having a local repository.

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    Hello, my name is Alex Schearer. I grew up in New York and currently live in Seattle.

    I am a software engineer who works on Microsoft Exchange by day and indie games at night, and this is my blog about game development.

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