As I mentioned in my previous post, Grant Rodiek is one of the designers whose blog I read on a regular basis. He recently wrote an intriguing post on the idea of purposefully designing joy into games. It got me … Continued
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. It’s summer time and everything seems to be going on at once. I’ve been coaching my daughter’s travelling softball team, and working the day job. I’ve spent a little time working on … Continued
Michael Fox of the Little Metal Dog Show — an always-interesting podcast about board gaming — recently interviewed me via Skype for the show. That conversation is now part of the latest episode of the LMD Show! And he lets … Continued
I’ve broken open my programming environment once again for a new (and, yet, kinda old) game project. The NFL lockout has me worried that I won’t be able to watch my world-champion Green Bay Packers play football next fall … but, … Continued
I had a very good, busy summer. Got to camp a bit, fish a few more times than I had expected, coach some softball with my 10-year-old’s team, and visit family & friends. Didn’t do much games-related stuff, though … … Continued
I started Air Rally Ace too late. I had just gotten to know the DXGame Engine pretty well (a game library targetting VB6 + DirectX8) from having made Gem Raider, but the life of VB6 and the DirectX8-friendly version of Windows … Continued
The game Keeps & Moats Chess is my example of the phrase “oldie but goodie”. I came up with the idea for the game sometime in 2003 and released the PC game a few months later. I am still getting contacted … Continued
My most complete computer game to date is, without question, Gem Raider. I had been working on one version or another of this design since I had started programming computer games. In fact, one of the first games I coded … Continued
In cleaning-up my files for this site update, I ran across a couple of games that were my entries into some of the Coding Contests held over at GPWiki.org — a nice community of indy game programmers. “AstroMiner” is an … Continued
The new year has brought on a new focus and new approach to my games projects. First step was giving my website a much-needed overhaul. Instead of hand-coding things like I’ve done in the past, I’ve decided to make … Continued