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I'm excited to announce that I'm working on a tower defense game. As part of my exploration of the design space, I noticed that there's a...

This blog post is definitely different in tone than previous entries. I still hope to be able to convey some of the lessons I've learned...

I'm excited to announce that the first external playtest of Kinematic has been published today! Go to itch.io to download a build of The...

Now it's time for me to work on building the world in which Jem's adventure will take place.

When I started this week, the custom C++ engine Kinematic is built in didn't have a VFX system. I decided to spend the week remedying...

The transition from being a AAA game programmer for a decade to a solo indie game developer in 2020 has been an adventure. Having worked...

I've been working roughly full-time on Kinematic for almost 5 months now. It gets a little messy how it's counted in the early months, as...

For today's blog entry, I decided to write a shoutout to my favorite programming book. "Refactoring" by Martin Fowler fundamentally...

Today I'd like to share some of how I'm animating and rendering Jem, the main character of Kinematic. One of my favorite parts of...

After some discussion about my previous post, Factorio's Recipes - Design Values, I decided to gather a few more thoughts about...

As I've been working on the recipe system for my game, Kinematic, I've been defining the goals for that system. At a high level, it needs...

Last week, I worked on a really fascinating problem that led me to a new appreciation of the Entity Component System framework....

When aspiring game engineers have asked me for advice on how to improve their skills, my go-to advice is "make a game from scratch". That...