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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Quest Update: Coding Every Day
Why Don’t I Spend More Time Coding? A little over 3 weeks ago I started a new game dev project codenamed Dungeon Explorer. I wanted a smaller project that pushed […]
Trello Makes an Awesome Handy Haversack
The All-Purpose Holder of Things Every adventurer needs a handy haversack (aka backpack) to carry all their equipment during their quest. I have played Dungeons & Dragons for over 30 […]
Motivation Is A Fickle Friend
Waiting For Inspiration Is Not Enough Many times over the past few years I felt inspired to design a board game, to build a video game, to learn Angular, to […]
Level 47 Today
I interrupt my normally scheduled devblog to celebrate turning level 47 today. I finally took some time to play Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep. The game is definitely different from […]
Odd Jobs Devblog #5 – Life Happens
At a Glance This past week I got nothing done. I had lots of “reasons” (read excuses) but in the end it comes down to the fact I didn’t set […]
Still Sitting At the Tavern
So I recently got a quest for a crazy, wild-haired troll and in the last six days I felt like I’m that reluctant character in the story that just sat at the tavern long after he should have gotten moving. Sure I did some stuff this week, but not much game dev.
