Coding Practice
Building a Random Quest Generator
TL;DR I wanted a low maintenance way to generate random quests for my game. So I created an awesome Factory class that did not require maintenance or upkeep as I […]
Fixed Speed Bug
Time Flies I belong to a small group of solo game developers on Discord and Kai playtested my game recently and immediately found a bug. It turned out that time […]
Treasure Hunter Alpha 4 Released
Making Progress – Even Offline To all my fellow Americans, happy Independence Day! Over the past few weeks, I made good, but slow, progress on improving my game. I managed […]
Working On More Features
Project: Treasure HunterCodename: Dungeon ExplorerGoal: Develop and release first gameInitial Commit: 7 Aug 2019 Devlog: 12 (see previous one)Dev Hours Since Last Devlog: 31.86Total Dev Hours: 227.16Allocated Dev Hours: 160 […]
Treasure Hunter Alpha 3 Released
Continuing My Quest Over the past few weeks I continued building Treasure Hunter adding in more features, including some requested ones (can you say multibuy!). Head on over to itch […]
Upcoming Features for Treasure Hunter
Project: Treasure HunterCodename: Dungeon ExplorerGoal: Develop and release first gameInitial Commit: 7 Aug 2019 Devlog: 11 (see previous one)Dev Hours Since Last Devlog: 16.75Total Dev Hours: 195.3Allocated Dev Hours: 160 […]
Treasure Hunter Alpha Released
Start Questing I started my quest to build Treasure Hunter back in June or July 2019, and wrote the first code on 7 Aug 2019. Since that time I delayed […]
Saving and Loading For the Win!
Project: Treasure HunterCodename: Dungeon ExplorerGoal: Develop and release first gameInitial Commit: 7 Aug 2019 Devlog: 10 (see previous one)Dev Hours Since Last Devlog: 17.44Total Dev Hours: 178.55Allocated Dev Hours: 160 […]
Research Compete – Heading Towards Alpha
Project: Treasure HunterCodename: Dungeon ExplorerGoal: Develop and release first gameInitial Commit: 7 Aug 2019 Devlog: 9 (see previous one)Dev Hours Since Last Devlog: 9.84Total Dev Hours: 161.11Allocated Dev Hours: 160 […]
A Banner and Research
Project: Treasure HunterCodename: Dungeon ExplorerGoal: Develop and release first gameInitial Commit: 7 Aug 2019 Devlog: 8 (see previous one)Dev Hours Since Last Devlog: 20.77Total Dev Hours: 151.27Allocated Dev Hours: 160 […]
Treasure Hunter Devlog 7 – Draggable Windows
Project: Treasure Hunter (formerly Dungeon Explorer)Goal: Develop and release first gameInitial Commit: 7 Aug 2019 Dev Hours Since Last Devlog: 60.29Total Dev Hours Spent: 130.5Allocated Dev Hours: 160 At a […]
Planning For More Adventures
Game Dev Goals for 2020 I never liked New Year’s Resolutions, they always seemed overly hyped and easily abandoned. Why should I wait until the new year to plan for […]
Implementing IEquatable and IComparable
The Path of Discovery Recently, I created a ResearchItem class for my game, and I realized I wanted to sort them in a specific, non-alphabetical way. In the past when […]
Improving My Coding Practice
I haven’t written anything in a while and for the last several weeks I’ve told myself that “this is the week I would finally post a new blog”. Finally, this […]
Dungeon Explorer Devblog 6 – Working Quests!
Project: Dungeon Explorer (codename)Goal: Develop and release first gameInitial Commit: 7 Aug 2019 Dev Hours Since Last Devblog: 23.05Total Dev Hours Spent: 70.21Allocated Dev Hours for Project: 160 At a […]
Dungeon Explorer Devblog 5 – Uncharted Territory
Project: Dungeon Explorer (codename)Goal: Develop and release first gameInitial Commit: 7 Aug 2019 Dev Hours Since Last Devblog: 14.11Total Dev Hours Spent: 47.16Allocated Dev Hours for Project: 160 At a […]
Write Code, Wrong Branch
Skill Up – Git Earlier this week I finished the core mechanic of my Dungeon Explorer game, so I stopped for the night. The next day I started right in […]
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