Design Concepts
Spin to Sin: A Conceptual Wheel of Fortune Meets Balatro
Designing a spin-the-wheel game for Juniper Dev’s game jam. You reshape the wheel’s odds between spins while wagering souls on the outcome.
Game Analysis
This Ain’t Even Poker Ya Joker: Deckbuilding Meets Idle
This idle game has a real story, great visuals, and a unique deckbuilding twist. But it’s not without flaws. Let’s break down ‘This Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker’.
Game Analysis
DPS Idle 2: A Card-Based Idle Game Done Well (Mostly)
DPS Idle 2 builds its progression around card leveling and prestige loop. This dev analysis covers those systems and what I think could be improved.
Tutorials
What I’d Look for Before Hiring a Game Programmer
For programmers looking for game dev jobs, here are the OOP principles, system design concepts, and version control practices I’d recommend knowing first.
Game Design Principles
How I Practice Game Design Without Stopping Development
Game design is easy to neglect during long development cycles. Here’s the system I use to keep practicing it without losing momentum on my main project.
Dev Logs
How I’m Structuring Laser Beast’s Level Progression
Designing difficulty progression means deciding what the player learns first, and in what order. Here’s the framework I used for my game Laser Beast.
Game Design Principles
Technical Design Documents: System Planning for Programmers
Programmers need a plan for every system and event before writing code. Here is how I build that plan, and why it works for more than just programming.
Tutorials
Advanced Git Commands You Don’t Use Daily (But Should Know)
Some advanced git commands are useful, but don’t come up often. It’s helpful to know what these features are, what they do, and when to use them.
Dev Logs
Laser Beast’s Programming is Done. Now We Build Levels.
Save systems, scene navigation, Steamworks integration, and the Bootstrapper all finished in April. Here is where Laser Beast stands heading into May.
Tutorials
The Git Commands Worth Learning First
A practical reference covering repo setup, branch management, and committing your work. The git commands that handle most of what you need.