Oh, my unbridled naivety! My last post discussed a new game, and how quickly it was coming together. Of course, any project is easy to start, and the real difficulty is dealing with the soul-crushing minor issues that rear their heads when you’re almost done. In my case, dealing with image assets for 3 different [...]
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Unity Tutorial – Alien Attack (Part One) · February 27, 2012
Finally, after a lot of procrastinating, here’s the first part of the introduction to Unity that I promised so long ago. Unity is both a game engine and level editor, and is primarily visual in nature. You’ll create entities (known as “GameObjects”) in your game, then tell them how to act by attaching “components” to [...]
Review: Triple Town · February 9, 2012
Since it’s been a few weeks since I last posted, I figure my loyal audience might need an update as to what’s happening in Ganbaru Games-land. Well, in December I took a break from development to play through The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (which was awesome, by the way). January was regulated to dealing [...]
Review: Super Crate Box · January 13, 2012
Heyooo, time again for me to write another game review instead of actually making games! This installment will cover the “underground” PC hit with the most redundant/nonsensical name ever, Super Crate Box. Super Crate Box (hereafter, SCB) was released a year ago to critical acclaim by Dutch developers Vlambeer. Unfortunately, the first release was Windows-only, [...]
Intermission: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword · December 14, 2011
As you can see, since announcing that I was going to start dabbling in Unity, I actually haven’t done anything! The cause of this is the fact that I’m currently ~20 hours in to the new Zelda game, Skyward Sword. Basically I’m trying to recharge and remind myself why I like games in the first [...]
Introducing BreakApp · November 14, 2011
Despite the relative silence of the blog recently, I’ve still been programming. After updating Nonogram Madness and Revolve Ball, I wanted to do something new, so decided to make a small productivity app. The result is BreakApp, a simple application for iPhone and iPod Touch which tries to remind you to take breaks from sitting [...]
cocos2d + Game Center Achievements · November 1, 2011
If you’ve been following along on the blog, I posted a few months ago about how to easily integrate Game Center leaderboards into your cocos2d game. Game Center is pretty great, because Apple writes basically all of the code for you, and they also provide a web-based interface to create your content. My previous tutorial [...]
