For Caverns of Underkeep I’m trying to do as much as I can with ‘programmer art’ and artwork thats in the public domain. For me, it’s more important to get the functionallity correct and in place before the game gets dolled up.
If you’re developing a Roguelike, or maybe an indie RPG and want to […]

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Well one of them anyway.
1. If we take into account the entire population of the world there exists a great number of programmers out there - So when I have an idea for a small but useful tool there is a good chance that it will already exist.
Just like tonight when my thought process went […]

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Yesterday I spent the entire day refactoring code for my upcoming game.
Refactoring is a funny thing because essentially you have to break your code, rearrange it, clean it up, put it back togeather, test it, and then hunt down all of the new bugs you’ve introduced into the system - By which time you should […]

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Here is a list of tasks that have to be completed before the first version of the game is deemed playable and fit for the public.
Some of these tasks are fairly trivial and shouldn’t take longer than an hour or so, others could take a day or more to implement as some refactoring will be […]

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So I’m developing a new game - Its a turn based graphical Roguelike and it will be played in a browser.
The dungeons will be randomized so everytime you play you will get a different Dungeon Crawl Experience™
The game will also be free to play. I think I’ll ask for donations to cover bandwidth costs and […]

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