Posts Tagged ‘ Game Design ’

RPG Design: Character Development Example

Welcome back to the RPG Design series where I try to talk a bit about the work and progress on my game project, the development of the darkish, space -themed computer role-playing game Stellar Conspiracy: Entanglements Of The Marenis Sector (working title). In the last part I’ve introduced the character design template I’m using and mentioned [ READ MORE ]

RPG Design: Character Development

Aah, back to the game design topic! The thing I love most about game design is that you can create worlds full of life, intricacy, intrigue and interesting characters, experimenting with scenarios and situations (that would otherwise probably have negative  repercussions in RL™). As a programmer you’d ever only write your code and if you are [ READ MORE ]

Bad Language in Games

The other day I was playing the Point Lookout Add-on for Fallout 3 and there is this one main quest where you go to inspect an area named Calvert Mansion just to run into a ghoul named Desmond. He seemed very busy trying to defend the mansion against Tribal intruders and without asking me directly [ READ MORE ]

RPG Design: Choosing the right Graphical Projection

I’ve been designing on a rather ambitious Role-Playing game project since a while now (in fact quite a long while but I’m not in hurry to finish it anytime soon) and while I’m in the process of working out the story, technical details like the combat mechanics, skill system etc. and creating interesting characters I [ READ MORE ]

PushButton Engine

  • May 6th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Probably old news but I’ve just found some time to read about the recently released pushbutton engine, a modular ActionScript 3 engine tailored especially for game development. It seems that Jeff Tunnel & Co (of Garage Games fame) were sitting down and wrote some serious ActionScript library overnight. “…and a component system which lets you easily [ READ MORE ]

Planewalker Games “The Broken Hourglass” RPG Development Insights

A valuable resource for everyone who is thinking/planning to write a roleplaying game … Indie developer Planewalker Games who are currently making their debut RPG The Broken Hourglass are publishing precious bits of insider information about their game engine called WeiNGINE. The Broken Hourglass is a computer roleplaying game with a strong visual relation to [ READ MORE ]

Tools Of The Trade Part 3: FreeMind

  • July 24th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

In my book “How to become a Flash Game Developer of World Class” I surely will not forget to mention this useful tool … FreeMind, a Mind Mapping tool that is not only free but also very intuitive! It is written in Java and therefore available for all common Platforms. Where other Mind Mapping tools [ READ MORE ]

Flex Application: Star Wars Name Generator

I finally spend some time to make myself more familiar with the Flex 2 Beta and this is what came out as a result: Star Wars Name Generator! It’s a small and modest tool to generate random names (obviously). If you’re a fan of the Star Wars Pen & Paper Role-playing game (like me) you [ READ MORE ]