From a gameplay mechanics perspective, everything is in place for the game currently known as Soul Train.  Since the last functionality update, here’s what has happened: Placeholders have been replaced with concept art for all aspects of the level Tunnels and flashlight interaction has been figured out Collision detection has been refined Button placement has more »

This is where I brushed off some of my old Flash skills and created a new type of enemy with an actual bone structure for (hopefully) easy animation.  I based the design for this character off a 1920s “Newsie” type guy, and added some glowing effects and transparency to make it look ghostly.  The drawing more »

Okay this took forever to do and surprisingly still isn’t actually *done*, but it’s pretty dang close.  I think we’re making the decision to shorten the roof a bit so you can see more of the land outside the train which I’m in the process of creating now.  Here’s a step by step of everything more »

The level creation, in terms of the technical side of things, is getting pretty close.  Since there are no arrays or dictionaries in gamesalad, as you’d expect, everything is governed by tables.  The way it works right now, we have a table that keeps all the stats on possible enemies: hit points by level, speed, more »

Up until now we’ve been using an exclamation point as a placeholder for an enemy, so I thought I’d whip up go with a new, non-punctuation art style and make a ghost.  I guess the skin color makes it look a little more like Slimer right now and I’m now considering a revision that would more »

Well, I’m starting to get to the bottom of some of this gamesalad stuff.  About four days ago I made this initial test project.  I had a static guy.  Two bottons that controlled which way he moved.  And the background was divided into 3 sections (train cars) that randomly generated a color.  Looked pretty terrible, more »

Alright so we have a very rough start to the train now, but it gives you an idea at least for the style and art direction we’re taking with the game.   Here’s the initial outline, followed by some of the initial coloring.  Even though this is a ghost-themed game I don’t want to have more »

Alright, well now that we have a concept for our game worked out it’s time to start figuring out the art direction for “Soul Train” (working title until we find out if we’d get sued or not).  To me this is always one of the more stressful parts of making anything digital.  That first impression more »

Success.  We’ve decided on a concept for out 3 month, 2D sidescroller project. You’re a guy on a train going across the country.  You start out just emerging from the bathroom to discover everyone on board has turned into ghosts and they’re trying to kill you.  Each level you’ll make your way through the train more »

Our plan was to make 2013 the year we make the shift from mobile apps to mobile games – the reason we started learning Obj-C in the first place.  And while it took us awhile to come up with a game plan, we’re finally punching the keys. A lot of our game concepts are pretty more »