Friends and fellow game developers! Grab an ale and I’ll lend your ear a while. Once again, I find myself in the familiar position of apologising for the delays in Everyone Gets Treasure development diary updates! Game development is a slow process at the best of times, especially as projects increase in scale.

In 500 BC the ancient philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus was sitting around on some Aegean shore when he mused, “No man steps in the same river twice.” He elaborated on this later with the less obtuse “There is nothing permanent except change.” , a saying as true today as it was 2500 years.

Greetings fellow adventurers! Two weeks has passed since our last developer diary – usually that means our hero game developer is hard at work, coding up a storm and too busy to write on the blog. Indeed I’ve been busy – but alas, not on the game. All of a sudden I’ve.

I live and breath role playing games. They’re far and away my favourite genre – both to play and to build. I coded my first RPG as an 8 year old, line for line in BASIC, copied from from a book called “Write Your Own Adventure Programs For Your Microcomputer“..

Game development is, for me, much akin to a seafaring adventure. There’s no two ways about it -when you set out to make a game, you become the captain of a ship. Your game design document is your map, your mouse the sextant and your keyboard the ship’s wheel. You often have.

Last week I was struck down with a nasty virus – not the kind Norton’s could fix – the real ‘cough-cough-splutter’ virus that knocks you round and leaves you feeling uninspired and flat. I’d come back from an amazing weekend, full of visions of rolling hills and thoughts of inspirational.

We’re about 6 days into development of “Everyone Gets Treasure”, the hilarious tactical combat game show RPG , as I’m loosely calling it. If you missed the first part of the development diary, you check it out here! So, here’s some advice I want to give to every game developer I.

I’ve been a game developer for as long as I can remember. I’ve done hundreds of Flash games and about a dozen mobile games – three under the guise of Whiskeybarrel Studios this year alone. I’ve been fortunate that after many years of working full time as a game developer,.