A little over a year ago, in August 2018, I started working on a small puzzle game for iOS. I’ve been steadily blogging about it along the way – from this first post (where I naively thought I’d finish and release the game in 2-3 months) to the previous most recent post (all about the push to get it finished enough to submit to TestFlight and start beta testing). Read more...

Last August, I started working on a small puzzle game for iOS, and have been blogging about it along the way. Update #1 took a look at how it all got started, and creating a very minimal “playable” game over the first few weeks. Read more...

After participating in two Ludum Dare game jams, I decided to expand my horizons and try out an Alakajam! I’d been curious to try out other game jams in general, but Alakajam in particular seemed to have a really nice website, plus lots of neat community stuff like tournaments where people competed for high scores in previous game jam games. Read more...

As of mid-January, I’m now 5 months in to this little iOS game development adventure… Which I started back in August, thinking it would take 2-3 months. The game started out as a blank slate, but after some iteration and experimentation, it’s shaping up to be sort of a mini RPG where you fight using casual “bubble shooter” mechanics, with the concept based loosely on my game jam entry for Ludum Dare #42. Read more...

At the beginning of December, I participated in my second game jam: Ludum Dare #43. The previous Ludum Dare (#42 in August) was my first game jam ever, and I wrote up a long-winded postmortem dev blog post about how it went. Read more...