@Play 74
The second of the two posts about Mayflight is up on GameSetWatch. I hope it hasn't seemed as obnoxiously self-promotional to you guys as it has to me. Additionally, this one is more about implementation algorithms and my wanting to document them somewhere for possible later use than anything else.
I spent three and a half months working on the thing, to the exclusion of almost everything else, and I don't think it's really good enough for all the effort I put into it. That is the great difficulty with the indie gaming sphere: you can work and work and work on something and still have it end up only so-so.
Next time, I absolutely swear, @Play will cover something else. I'm gearing up to write about Dungeon Crawl's new alternate play mode, Dungeon Sprint, which is suitably infuriating.
A collection of John Harris' various columns, articles and other game-related writing.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
@Play 73: Mayflight again
@Play #73, on my own randomly-generated game, Mayflight
Yeah, @Play is back, but it's about the game I've already introduced, which is relevant to roguelikes in both inspiration and implementation detail. In this column I cover the inspiration part of it; in the next, I talk about how it was implemented, which may provide an algorithm or two of interest to roguelike developers. After that we'll be back on the usual beat, so if you're annoyed with all this talk about platformers and such you don't have much longer to wait!
Yeah, @Play is back, but it's about the game I've already introduced, which is relevant to roguelikes in both inspiration and implementation detail. In this column I cover the inspiration part of it; in the next, I talk about how it was implemented, which may provide an algorithm or two of interest to roguelike developers. After that we'll be back on the usual beat, so if you're annoyed with all this talk about platformers and such you don't have much longer to wait!
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