Journey of a Hobbyist Game Developer » Indies

How I Beat “Being Struck By Lightning is Probably the Best Way That You Could Die On Account of All of Its Awesomeness”

Erik — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:10:07 +0000

Ok, so I don’t just try and make games, but I can play them too. I am quite proud of this one, since this game required more skill than any I have ever played and beat before. Here is my attempts of the final level of the game. This level is the hardest by [...]

tehinternets

Erik — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:52 +0000

So I was reading TIG yesterday about an interview with Braid-creator Jonathan Blow. It seemed like a pretty good read, and I had nothing better to do, so I read some of the comments. It didn’t take long to see that TIG is full of anonymous children who think TIG is their playground to [...]

The best resignation ever

Erik — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:13:20 +0000

I was on the #xna channel last night and someone linked up the best resignation ever. He work(ed) for 2k Australia and just dropped the mother-of-all-resignation letters on them. See for yourself:

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Indie game development ftw! That is truly inspiring for those of us not yet ready (read: lacking the balls) to do [...]

The Idea Man

Erik — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:21:58 +0000

Well, before I start talking about my prototype and game idea, I wanted to talk about how I got to that point. Ever since Project Wish, I have had a fairly active brain when it comes to game ideas. For the most part, during my work on PW, this creativity went towards PW’s goals, [...]