tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17420004540543452102009-07-02T19:28:18.781-07:00Game development at Blazing Games and a general view about web game development and open source.Billy Spelchanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09254188124237763645noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1742000454054345210.post-34001788958083247082009-07-02T19:24:00.000-07:002009-07-02T19:28:18.798-07:00

Work on my Android game is going well so I am continuing my 3 week site updates until after the Google Android Contest deadline at which point I will go back to either a fortnight release schedule or a weekly schedule with open source releases and articles being releases on odd weeks. Still, today is the beta version of Dungeon Romp 3D, which is a 3D version of Ultimate Retro Project episode 60.

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The Word Slide game has now officially been posted. Bigger news, at least for those of you who are interested in RPGs, is the next game that will be posted July 3rd. My Dungeon Romp game is going from 2D to 3D. Of course, it is just a beta but I think it is fairly stable. I am sure a lot of you noticed that again I am going 3 weeks between releases, but this time it is Google's fault :-). Their

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I probably should have posted the sneak preview to Dozen Days of Words episode 6 on Thursday, but I was busy playing Final Fantasy IV: The After Years on my Wii. While I would not call myself a big Final Fantasy fan, the game has been eating up my evenings. Now that I have finished the main quest and the first optional quest, I am finished until the next downloadable chapter is released. So I

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The word shift game is now officially released on the Blazing Games site. As readers of this blog have had the link for a week this is not that big of news. The sixth episode of Dozen Days of Words has also been finished. I have set the official release date for June 12th so that I have a bit of time to get ahead of schedule again. That said, I will probably provide an early link to the game in a

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My Word Shift game was finished earlier this week, so I am posting a sneak preview of the game early. While the game is posted on the Blazing Games site, none of the Blazing Games links have been enabled so the only way to see the game until May 22nd is to go to http://blazinggames.com/table/dozenDays/words/wordShift.php by typing in the url (or using copy and paste if you are lazy).

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Dozen Days of Words episode 5 is in a functional state though is not finished. I could probably finish the game for release next week if necessary but with my nephew in town I decided that an extra week before the official release date was a good idea. If I do finish it early I may post the game a week early and link to it from here so readers get a week of early access to the game. I'll let you

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The making of Coffee Quest eBook has finally been updated after a few years hiatus. I have added chapters 4 and 5 which finishes the creation of Coffee Quest 1 and the Coffee Quest GL experiment. I am deeply considering doing another 3D experiment using a new web technology that Google is testing. This would be done by porting Coffee Quest 2 to the javascript-based technology.I was also hoping

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I was planning on having a sneak preview of this release last week but I ended up taking the Easter long weekend off for a much needed recharge. I do hope to have a sneak preview of the next Dozen Days of Words game if it is in a playable state early enough. Growing Words is a semi-original game were you have a list of words that you have to build and a board containing some letters. Each turn

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Episode 3 of Dozen Days of Words is finally released. While this game is a fairly traditional game and was easily finished in under 16 hours, finding those hours to work on the game was a lot bigger challenge than I anticipated. The next episode, Growing Words, will hopefully be put together a lot smoother than the previous episode.

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Episode 3 is finally finished, though my cold still lingers. Normally I recover very quickly from colds but this one does not want to let up. Perhaps it is a sign that I am getting old. Perhaps the diet I am currently on is taking more out of me than I realized. Perhaps I happened to have caught a very strong strain of whatever it is that infected me. This means that I didn't get as much work

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It turns out that my decision to delay Episode 3 was the correct one. Last night other obligations showed up. To make matters worse, I had a sore throat which as I feared turned into a full-blown cold. By cold I really mean that I really am cold and just hope all my shivering actually is burning off calories. Not much work on Episode 3 is going to be done today but if the weekend finds me

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While a lot of progress was made on Dozen Days of Words episode 3 today, and if I work on it in the evenings before the initial release date it is likely that it could be finished on time, I have decided that I will officially delay the game a week. While I do intend to try and still get the game done before Friday, it will not be released until April 3rd no matter when it is finished. The

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A funeral occupied a good chunk of my day and progress on the third episode of Dozen Days of Words is not as far along as I would like. I plan on hopefully finishing the game tomorrow, assuming nothing comes up. I do hope that I will not have to delay next week's game but if worst comes to worst then I may do so.

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It has been a month since the last time I had the chance to post an entry to the Blog. Since that time I have finished posting all 13 parts of the Thirteen Days of Releases on Blazing Games. For those of you who haven't checked out Blazing Games lately, these releases consist of Day 5 of One of those Weeks (all 6 episodes that make up the day being releases as Open Source and the making of

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I have posted the Blazing Games game for tomorrow. While Mary Caton did send me some potential themes for thirteen spikes, I did not have time to incorporate them into the game so there is only one skin in the 0.4 build of the game. It is, however, animated and rather interesting. That being said, next month also has a Friday the Thirteenth. I will probably add more skins in addition to the

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After examining the calendar trying to figure out what exactly my plans are, I realized that my current release plans means that I do not have to worry about starting on Episode 3 of Dozen Days of Words until the end of the month. The third episode of Dozen Days of Words will not be released until the end of March due to some special plans that I have for the first thirteen days of March. While I

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The bugs that I found after posting Alphabet Points bothered me a bit too much so I spent about half an hour or so finding and fixing them and have posted the 1.0.1 version of Alphabet Points. If anybody else noticed the bugs, they never bothered to email me a bug report.

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The finished version of Alphabet Points has been released on Blazing Games. While testing the site today, I did notice that there was some issues so I may do a 1.1 release to fix those issues. I haven't decided on this yet.For episode 3 I have decided that I will simply track the hours and once a week post the latest functional build to the site with the work notes up to that point. While I will

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Making Alphabet Points has been posted. At least the first four pages. The final page will be posted with the final game on Thursday evening (PST). I am finding that I am having problems with the block system that I switched to. While it is easier to attempt to set aside a block of 4 hours then an entire day, the big problem I am still having is getting into the flow of development. With a whole

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Something came up on Sunday so I delayed the third work block until today and just finished it. I was going to post it but as it is getting late I will do that tomorrow.

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Knights Tour has been posted on Blazing Games. This is an interesting puzzle game in which you have to move a knight over all the squares of a chess board touching each square only once. I have also, since the last time I posted here, finished two blocks of the second installment of Dozen Days of Words. I have not posted the journal or episodes yet, but will probably do so on Sunday when I finish

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Just a quick update to let you know that I have finally finished posting the first game of the new year. Of course, I could not resist starting off the year with the first episode of the second season of the Dozen Days Pentalogy, Dozen Days of Words. Even though the year has just started, I am thinking of altering my plans for the year. That would require me finishing Coffee Quest 5 first, so

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I said that I would have a walk-through of my classic and modern Adventure games (Ultimate Retro Project episodes 57 and 58) in December, and while I am pushing it a bit, here it is. I am going to go to try to provide hints before providing the solution so if you are stuck, just read as much as you need to to become unstuck.Enter the house by going north. This places you in the entrance were

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I forgot to post the link to the sneak preview of Dozen Days of Words episode 1. I am going to be working on that over the weekend and plan on releasing the episode on January 2nd but the first half of the development is done (though I am not as far along as I should be) but for those who are interested, the link is here:http://blazinggames.com/table/dozenDays/words/makingScrambled/

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Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year! I am quickly writing this after quickly posting the final episode of One of those Weeks. I am doing this Christmas Morning due to the fact that I have plans this afternoon and evening. I suppose I could wait until tomorrow morning to post this game but figured it would be safer to get it posted early. Enjoy. If you enjoyed One of those Weeks and want to

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