Since the beginning of 2015 I’ve been participating on a somewhat regular basis to the @Pixel_Dailies challenge over Twitter.
It is basically a Twitter account that once a day will post a theme and ask you to reply/tweet with a specific set of hashtags posting a pixel art image you made according to the theme.
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Various articles about various topics.
ASTE 2015 presentation
I am doing a presentation on the theme : “Game design applied to education” for the ASTE 2015.
The presentation happens through Skype, talking over my presentation document (that you can download here – made in Libre Office).
Smart and experienced people talking about making games
Blogs you should read and follow
- Lost Garden (Daniel Cook) – Be sure to start with the “Worth reading” section.
- Raph’s Website (Raph Koster)
- What games are (Tadhg Kelly)
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LD28 The most beautiful day of her life, Post-Mortem
The most beautiful day of her life
Post-mortem
Play the game
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Useful links and tools related to game making
Build your games
- Construct 2 – My weapon of choice. A lot of platforms to export to. Use the power of HTML5, use the power of the event system.
- The GIMP – Open source software to make graphics. It takes time to get used to the interface at first I guess, but I’ve been using it for so long it’s not a big deal for me anymore. And it’s far less expensive than Photoshop.
- Spriter – An animation tool (that also has a Construct2 plugin for easy integration/use). Still in dev, but it will take over the world someday so check it out right now !
- Bfxr – An online tool that will generate 8/16 bits sounds. Pretty useful and often used in game jams.
- Sprite Font Generator – A tool developed to allow the conversion of TTF and OTF fonts to bitmap fonts that can be easily used in the SpriteFont object in Construct2.
Practice your skills
- CompoHub – A website that lists different game jams available
LD23 “Out for Arrest” made in less than 72 hours
Hey, let me have a “What I recall of the events” post about the game I did with PixolPalette during this week-end for the Ludum Dare Jam.
It was my personal second attempt to the Ludum Dare, second attempt working with PixolPalette too.
And we did it.
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Post mortem on Drop Da Piew
This article is about my thoughts, ramblings and rantings about the development of Drop Da Piew.
Bear with me, I’m not a native English speaker, if you find spelling/grammar mistakes in this document, please be kind enough to point it out in a comment, I’ll be sure to correct it.
Drop Da Piew is my second finished/released game. Like my first game Space Jinx, it was made in the frame of a contest on Scirra.com.
From the beginning of the development I already had the idea to release this website to support it, I wanted the game to be some front end of what can be done as a HTML5 game (on my PC the game is fluid on FF and Chrome, the sound plays good and the general gameplay/controls work as expected/designed so far).
About Kyatric
I am a game maker and Construct expert. Originally learning coding with Visual Basic, PHP, C & C++ with the intent to make games it was only when I found Construct that I was able to release my first completed games.
I’m an early adopter of Construct and early believer in HTML5. I’ve been active in Construct 2 community providing tutorials, support and help in the forums and other websites. I have been working and releasing games made during game jams and professional advert-games ordered by various media companies like CanalSat, France 2 or even the music video game “Lazers from my heart” for the band Birdy Nam Nam.