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Games I Played – July 2009

August 6, 2009

inFAMOUS (PS3) I touched on inFAMOUS in my June post but I can’t express how much I enjoyed this game. What a wonderful surprise. The team at Sucker Punch really outdid themselves with a highly polished and enjoyable experience. I played through the entire game with Good Karma and I keep meaning to pick it [...]

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Flash Experiment – Creating Rhythm (1/3)

July 6, 2009

The Preamble & Problem Say you wanted to create a rhythm game in Flash along the lines of Guitar Hero, Rock Band, or, my favourite, Parappa the Rappa. You’d need a method of maintaining a beat. Two main problems keep this in the realm of annoying. Flash can’t be trusted to keep a constant framerate. [...]

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Games I Played – June 2009

July 2, 2009

The Preamble In my experience, there are an awful lot of game developers that simply don’t play games. It’s a serious problem. The excuses usually stem around “I don’t have time”. But seriously, how many writers don’t read? How many individuals in the film industry don’t watch movies? So why is it our industry is [...]

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Flash 4 Game Archive – Date Quest

April 29, 2009

With all of my time spent in Flash 4 land I was getting relatively good at manipulating the annoying text file variable string system. One of the dreams of Eduverse was to build a kind of Choose Your Own Adventure conversation engine. I had an idea of how to do one.

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Distracted

April 21, 2009

My mind is definitely on the impending Marathon these days. I’m finding it hard to focus on my projects to get anything meaningful done. I’m also pushing up against my 1 year time limit on a couple of web courses so I’m trying to plow through those final assignments in the next week. Being sick [...]

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Flash 4 Game Archive – Cindy’s Bad Dream Trilogy

April 9, 2009

Almost in parallel with the Octo Trilogy, we were also actively working on Cindy’s Bad Dream. It was a beautiful summer day in Vancouver and our boss had taken us on a trip to the nearby comic book store. We were looking for comic books to inspire us to make new games. Cindy, our brilliant [...]

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Flash RPG – A Hero with more Class

April 8, 2009

As I’ve developed as a Flash coder over the past month some of my earlier work is looking a little bulky. I can already see where some of my earlier code decisions are going to bite me in the ass later on down the road. Where Flash is a viking is in its ability to [...]

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