January 2012
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Recipe: Homemade Japanese curry
We had a soup and stew cookoff at our place last night. It went well. Japanese curry is one of my old standbys, but the accepted way of making that dish is to just open a box and go at it. I’ve been altering my own curry a lot compared to the box’s instructions over the years, and when I (finally) found this recipe for a homemade version of the same curry I couldn’t help but...
Jan 10th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
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Jan 2nd
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Pile of Kittens: Day 3
I usually put my dev logs for game dev competitions in more out of the way places, but apparently Pile of Kittens’ is going here! Given that my last screenshot was a mockup of the style I’m using now, things don’t look much different, but I can pick up and throw kittens now, which is exciting and makes for some pretty hilariously named chunks of code.  It’s going to be...
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 11th
November 2011
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 7th
October 2011
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Lantern (contest version) released!
This is more rushed than just about any of my contest releases, but I’m generally pleased with it so far and plan to work on it more this month, possibly for the Ludum Dare October challenge, if I think it’s worth charging for. Download for Windows Download for Mac Black & White Contest dev log
Oct 11th
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September 2011
4 posts
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Sep 14th
Run Run Robot got 5th place in the Ludum Dare 21 Jam!  Be sure to check out the other entrants, too.  There were a lot of good games.
Sep 13th
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August 2011
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Aug 29th
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Run Run Robot
I did art, direction, and a bit of code on a game called Run Run Robot for the latest Ludum Dare Jam, which is a team competition to make a game in 72 hours.  We’re pretty proud of it. Get Run Run Robot on Ludum Dare My Run Run Robot dev blog
Aug 29th
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Aug 15th
July 2011
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Coward Bot's Bad Day →
I was havin’ a pretty lazy day, so I figured I should draw something.  I like the idea of Coward Bot being forced into adventures.  His internal Terminator-style HUD is totally filled with “RUN. RUN. RUN.” next to a looping wireframe simulation of a robot getting crushed by a dragon claw.
Jul 25th
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Subatomic Kangaroo World Tour
I finished Subatomic Kangaroo World Tour and I’d love to know what you think about it. I finished this for a game dev competition on the 18th, but I’m just now recovering enough to post about it in a moderately intelligent manner. I got the name from everyone’s favorite Video Game Name Generator. The game’s kind of a bullet-hell jumping shooter with slow motion and...
Jul 19th
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Jul 9th
June 2011
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Jun 27th
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Making Games in Unity: Prefabs and Game Art
This is part 2 of a series.  If you’re entirely new to making games with Unity, then I recommend you read the first article first.  I don’t plan on writing many of these, but I did want to cover reusing game assets through prefabs and 3D asset workflow.  The descriptions of those things I found when learning Unity myself left me confused and misinformed; hopefully I’ll do a bit...
Jun 5th
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What's it like to make a game in Unity?
There are a lot of different tools out there for making games.  Some are just libraries like Irrlicht, OGRE, or JMonkey.  Others are full on toolkits/IDEs like UDK, Torque, Shiva, or Unity.  All of these generally have the same painful entry fee for a new user: you need to learn them before you can decide whether you’ll like them.  What’s the workflow?   What do scripts look like?...
Jun 1st
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May 2011
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 9th
April 2011
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 18th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 7th
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March 2011
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Mar 16th
PixelJunk Shooter 2
The original was excellent and this sequel’s downright magical.  It may be my favorite 2D shooter.  The awesome fluid simulation + lava and water wrangling from the original make a return, along with a surprising amount of fun new tricks.  Hell, there’s even a cool competitive multiplayer component. And the art style!  I’ve been putzing around with 2D polygons forever but these...
Mar 15th
February 2011
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Feb 15th
Ty: Wow, this looks post soviet. Angie: Eh, in a Mesa kind of way. Ty: Yeah, this looks like Mesa.
Feb 8th
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Feb 2nd
January 2011
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 10th
December 2010
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Dec 14th
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Pumpkin butter in beef curry?  Great idea.  Go me.
Dec 5th
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