Prompted my a news story back in September that Halfbrick had laid off the last of its designers, I chatted on Twitter about some of the challenges in being a designer. I’ve been updating the site and realized I hadn’t posted it yet, so here’s a belated update.
Category: Game Design
Example of FSM Building: Combat
A past side project included building Wizardry-style combat. That’s a very specific kind of turn-based combat, best displayed in Wizardry VI and Wizardry VII. I call this phased combat. The player enters orders for each of her party members in turn, shown in the screen shot. Each party member can make choices like Fight, Parry, cast […]
Segmenting (and not repeating) FSMs
I’ve been talking a lot on Twitter lately about creating my solo game, and I’m going to start saving them here as well. Today, I talked about why you often want FSMs on stand-alone gameobjects, and a beginning look at how/why you would segment them. [View the story “Reasons to segment FSMs” on Storify]
Thank God, I’m An Indie Dev
One of my favorite songs that comes up on my walk to and from work is John Denver’s Thank God I’m A Country Boy. Am I a “country girl”? Kind of, but that’s not why the song is on my “walking to work” playlist. I’m lucky to work at an awesome company that encourages creativity and […]