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...

For the first part of development, our game was 50% combat, 50% walking sim. If you weren’t fighting, you were looking for something...

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...

Last time, when we talked about improvements in a procedural environment, I briefly mentioned the topics of wayfinding and mini-maps....

As a procedural systems designer, you start to realize that different things you have created can very quickly take on lives of their...

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...

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...

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...

Our primary goal was to cover each of the main high school stereotypes (jock, cheerleader/preppy, goth, nerd) in our 4 main characters...

Because we knew pretty early that plenty would be happening on-screen simultaneously, minimal and compact UI design was a must...

As we were concepting the idea of Project Pulse, we were actively toying around with the idea that we could use procedurally generated...

When designing Project Pulse, we knew already that we were creating a rhythm game, and the rhythm was going to need to feel right...

When we were first conceptualizing our newest project, we knew we wanted to break through genres in some way. A lot of iterations and...