For the last few months I’ve been spending some time developing a game for the Android mobile platform. Up until now, I’ve just eluded to it as my ‘uber-secret Android project’, but it’s time to let the cat out of the proverbial bag.
Introducing …. (drum roll please) … GrandMasterPixel !
GrandMasterPixel is essentially a low-res pixelart competition, with [...]

Mass Effect !! Yeah, yeah, I know, I’m over a year behind on this one – but it’s part of may strategy to not spend too much money on the latest games when I don’t have time to actually play them properly. It was on special on Steam, so I pounced. Only a few hours [...]

Not a huge amount of gaming this month actually – been doing more coding and testing on my uber-secret-Android-project. Here’s what I’ve dabbled in:

The Gratuitous Space Battles beta – it’s currently undergoing lots of balance changes.
Dungeon Quest. It’s a braindead grind-RPG in the simplest sense. But it’s on my Android phone, and it’s on Facebook. [...]

So, the Game Design Concepts course officially finished a little over two weeks ago. I followed along for the first half, but dropped the ball when it came to the month-long design project. Playtesting is time consuming, but essential – and finding a bunch of ‘randoms’ to act as testers for blind playtesting is tricky.
Rather [...]

I’ve made a quick “GDCU” mindmap using XMind. It covers some of the concepts in the Game Design Concepts course, however I don’t claim that is complete, and I may update it over time. Feel free to fork it and add/correct it in any way you feel. I’d love to see updates from others doing [...]