Roughnecks Revisited

After fumbling around with the enemy behaviors some more and frustrating myself at their incessant need to run into walls, I decided to take a break from the project and just come back to it in a few weeks. After opening it up the other day, it occurred to me that all of these behaviors […]

The Roughnecks: Level Breakdown

I had planned on making regular blog posts about my two personal projects, a mobile strategy game and a simulated Wii-U tech demo, as I made progress on them. Unfortunately, I hit some pretty big roadblocks with those two pursuits, and had to put them on the back-burner. Besides having been busy with college and […]

Designing for the Wii-U

Nintendo’s latest video game console, the Wii-U, hit shelves all across the world two months ago. The most notable feature of this new console is the GamePad, the system’s controller, which is a hybrid of a tablet and a more traditional game controller. There has been quite a bit of discussion amongst developers as to […]

In Development: The Roughnecks

For about 2 months now, I have slowly been putting together the first of several personal projects I plan to work on in my senior year of college. I’ve decided to call it The Roughnecks, the title borrowed from the 1997 film Starship Troopers. While re-watching the flick, it rang out as a catchy name […]