March 11th, 2010

Can I Get Your Opinion?

Hey everyone, I’d like your thoughts about a possible art-style for another word game I’ve been thinking about. Basically I’d like to hear whether you think it’s aesthetically appealing, whether you’d click and try the game based on this look, and anything else you care to share. Check it out and let me know what you think!

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Adlib’s Story

Hey guys sorry I haven’t updated in a little while I’ve been busy working on Adlib. So far things are coming along well, thanks to everyone who’s signed up to beta test the game — your help has been invaluable! Anyway, today I thought I’d share some additional artwork from the game and talk about the simple story that it tells.

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Make Some Noise: Sound Effects for Your Next Game

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 DrPetter’s sfxr.

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Game Art on the Cheap

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 to play around a little bit and explore some new ideas. As I’ve said before Photoshop can be a great tool to explore nascent ideas with.

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