Month: June 2014

I just finished writing code for sprite-based text in unity. Since the game is low-fi, I wanted the font to be somewhat legit. Here’s the font I created for the old XNA version of the game: And here’s it rendering in Sportsball I created a simple class that will...

Work continues on Sportsball here at the studio (aka a spare room in my house). I’ve been working with Chris on putting in some rough animations, and already they are making a huge difference. So far we have Mr. Hockeyman animated with some test coloring: Astute readers will notice something...

Back when Sportsball was a humble XNA prototype, I had assumed the physics would be really basic. Mainly because I didn’t want to write a whole physics engine. Now that I’m writing the game in Unity, that problem is taken care of in the most fancy-pants way possible. That is...

Announcing Sportsball Sportsball is a game concept I’ve been working on and off for 5 years. I was making XNA games back in 2009 through about 2011 for fun. Then I got a job at a game company and all that got put on hold. Here’s a snippet of what the fateful game...

Last but not least, I headed to the Xbox mega-booth. Having published two titles on the XBLIG service, I was curious to learn more about ID@Xbox and what games indie devs had coming out. Again, there’s too many to mention, but here’s some that grabbed me. It took me...

Playstation was the next area on my trek so I delved into the mega-booth. I was pleased to see a lot of indie titles on display. I can’t possibly talk about all of them, but I have to mention some that really stood out to me. I have to mention...

With Nintendo right next to the Oculus booth again (they were next to Oculus at GDC this year as well) I had to check up on the big N. Half the Nintendo booth was showing off the new Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS. This wasn’t too...