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Begin the compo

First of, this theme is awesome and I hope for justas awesome entries. Game Design For my entry, I’m going for a (RT)Strategy game. Here is some concept art: In the game you will control a subterranian...

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Strategy Guide and Tech Talk

The compo is over, my game is finished and the rating starts. For anyone trying out my game (if you haven’t yet: HERE), I will explain some strategies to survive, just in case you have trouble with it....

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There’s more to EscApe than you think

This is kind of a port-mortem of EscApe (there’s another game with same name, it’s not about that one :)) but I’m going to focus certain design choices I did in the 3 hours I created it. Massive...

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HUD you guess?

(This is a cross-post from my post-compo devlog.) Yes, there will be puns. I apologize for nothing. The most recent addition to the game was the heads-up-display for your ship in flight mode. It’s a...

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Space Drugs: Isn’t Deep Space “High” Enough Already?

(This is a cross-post from my post-compo devlog.) “High”, as in altitude. Again, no apologies. If you’re old enough to have been a highschooler before the average cell phone had an app store, then this...

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Some free ideas. What about Ludumception?

I probably won’t do anything, so I’m giving free ideas away: Ludumception: a game that mixes gameplay with the evolution of themes of past Ludum Dares: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludumdare/....

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Understanding Katamari: the level design of The Sentient Cube

[Cross-posted from Omiya Games blog] Designing the levels for The Sentient Cube was a fascinating exercise, and one that provided a great insight in how Katamari Damacy was designed.  Both games have...

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The rest of the game design notes

[Cross-posted from Omiya Games blog] Here’s a dump of all the design decisions I’ve made on The Sentient Cube. First, the debug level. Always gotta have one for Unity. It’s a great place to create...

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Save Zoe: Post-Mortem, Pre-Mortem and inbetweens

DISCLAIMER: I strongly suggest you to play the game before reading this. This is going to get spoiler-heavy at some point and also I heard the game is pretty cool and you should play it? yeeeeeah....

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Ex-Sword-Stential Crisis — Day One Development

CLICK HERE to play EX-SWORD-STENTIAL CRISIS! So by the time Saturday afternoon rolled around, we were all patiently waiting for Daniel to finish up his work on “Rocket Fist” so he could submit it to...

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Fear Me! – Post-mortem (pun not intended)

In Fear Me! you play as a happy-go-lucky ghost who has recently breached the veil of the damned in pursuit of his favorite leaisure activity – scaring children. A sort of action-puzzle blend, check it...

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