Journey of a Hobbyist Game Developer

July Progress Update

Erik — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:50:17 +0000

So here is a video of my latest progress of where I am to date.

Lot’s more to come soon. Hopefully I will be able to show off my level editor [...]

New Beginnings, again

Erik — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:13:28 +0000

I started working again. Yay! It has been almost a year since I had time to devote to my little prototype/game project. I’m not entirely sure how I lost my motivation (it all started with work), but once it was gone, it was very hard to get it back again. Ironically, I’m also not entirely sure [...]

Is the PS3 the best console of this generation?

Erik — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:57:59 +0000

I have to start out and say that I am a fan of Xbox and I do like Microsoft, just so people can categorize my opinion accordingly. I have always payed attention to the console market, even when I wasn’t playing anything myself. Historically, I have owned almost every console ever made. And when I didn’t [...]

Breaking the silence

Erik — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:41:44 +0000

For all 4 readers I have, it’s been right around 3 months since my last post. I have a number of posts bottled up in my mind that are screaming to get out, so I figured rather than jump right in, I’d break the silence here and then follow with the posts as I complete them. [...]

All work and no play make Jerky a dull boy

Erik — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:37:51 +0000

So if you haven’t noticed, I’ve been busy lately. As I sit here babysitting a 4-hour file transfer for work, I am realizing that I’ve been working waaaaaay too much lately. The good news is that I do good work, and make sure that stuff gets done. The bad news is that it comes at the [...]

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 a long [...]

Life vs. Hobby – take 1 of many

Erik — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:17:38 +0000

This is my first Life vs. Hobby post. I say first because I’ve been doing this long enough to know that there will be many more. I was pretty lucky while working on Project Wish that life didn’t get in the way more than it did. Having no kids yet helped quite a bit. Having a [...]

Duh-Awards #1

Erik — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:29:30 +0000

So I haven’t been terribly productive lately, but I am still around and still working on my game/prototype. I’ll have some more posts soon. I blame all the insane projects I have been working on at work and the fact that my wife is due any second with our second.

Despite the excuses, I saw an amazing [...]

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 whine about [...]

When to end prototyping and to begin a game?

Erik — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:42:25 +0000

Well, you’ve seen the first few weeks of my prototype, coming from someone new to it. So here are the next few parts. These bring my prototype to an end … sorta. I’ll explain below.

First Prototype – Part 11 from Erik Briggs on Vimeo.

New version of Jing creates better performing videos. I still have problems with [...]