Publishing as an Indie Dev - The Money
Indie development is a tough world. You work day in and day out just for the chance to see the fruits of your labor. Passion is a...
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Naomi Masterson
- May 19, 2021
Smaller Environment Interactions
For the first part of development, our game was 50% combat, 50% walking sim. If you weren’t fighting, you were looking for something...
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Naomi Masterson
- May 19, 2021
Making the Phone Menu
For the pause menu we wanted a clean, unobtrusive overlay. We also wanted to continue the art style of our game into the UI. This means...
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Alexander Croom
- May 17, 2021
Wayfinding in Procedural Environments
Last time, when we talked about improvements in a procedural environment, I briefly mentioned the topics of wayfinding and mini-maps....
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Alexander Croom
- May 15, 2021
Improving Procedural Environments - Pt. 1
As a procedural systems designer, you start to realize that different things you have created can very quickly take on lives of their...
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Alexander Croom
- May 15, 2021
Designing 4-Player Couch Co-op
Early on in the project we knew we wouldn't be able to work with network multiplayer within the timespan of the project. We also knew...
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Alexander Croom
- May 3, 2021
Creating the Charge Attacks
As our team moved into the final quarter of our development cycle, we knew from all the feedback we had received thus far that we needed...
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Nathan "ZeWei" Malota
- Apr 5, 2021
Making the Music of Project PULSE
Music is an incredibly important aspect of any game, but for a game with music as a foundation for our mechanics, we have to carefully...
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Savannah Shuff
- Apr 3, 2021
Designing the Characters of Project PULSE
Our primary goal was to cover each of the main high school stereotypes (jock, cheerleader/preppy, goth, nerd) in our 4 main characters...
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Alexander Croom
- Apr 2, 2021
Interface Design Ideation
Because we knew pretty early that plenty would be happening on-screen simultaneously, minimal and compact UI design was a must...
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Alexander Croom
- Apr 2, 2021
Creating a Procedural City - The Roads Pt. 1
As we were concepting the idea of Project Pulse, we were actively toying around with the idea that we could use procedurally generated...
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Alexander Croom
- Mar 31, 2021
Designing the Basics of the Beat
When designing Project Pulse, we knew already that we were creating a rhythm game, and the rhythm was going to need to feel right...
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Nathan "ZeWei" Malota
- Mar 28, 2021
Conceptualizing the Rhythm Attack System
When we were first conceptualizing our newest project, we knew we wanted to break through genres in some way. A lot of iterations and...
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