Hello friends, and welcome to Week 4 of OGAW! I've been having a blast with this project so far. My first three games have been so much fun to work on and they've provided me with a great deal of creative satisfaction. I've had a chance to work on some 3D animation and a dialog system (Curious Castle). I've had a chance to design some tricky, intricate level layouts (MAZES). And I've had a chance to implement some basic enemy AI and combat systems (The Marker Game). Now that

Hello friends, and welcome to Week 3 of OGAW! I'm getting a late start on this week's game -- things with my non-game development work have kept me busy. But that's okay! I'm thrilled to dive back in to the One Game a Week project and create another game this week. After working on one project in Unity and one project in GameMaker, I’m not sure what engine I will work with for the third week! Each engine has its own appeal and limitations — maybe I should turn this into a gam

Week two is upon us! Hello everyone, and welcome to the second week of One Game a Week 2019! To all of those followed along during the first week, welcome back! To any newcomers — so nice of you to join us! If you’re looking for the quick breakdown of the project you can check my announcement here, and you can see some of my own ground rules and goals for this project here. I definitely came out of the gate running for my first project — it was a very busy week trying to ge

Hello! I wanted to give an update on my progress so far for week 1 of OGAW 2019! I naturally started out the week doing one of my favorite activities -- brainstorming some game ideas. Even though I have all the world's modern technology at my fingertips, I still tend to write down game ideas in a physical notebook when I'm brainstorming -- I can't explain it, but there's some strange magic to writing ideas on real paper. I feel like it stimulates a different part of the brain

Welcome to One Game a Week! Hello everyone, and welcome to the first official week of One Game a Week 2019! I'm have to say, I'm bursting at the seams with excitement and happiness right now! I can't count the number of times over the past few years that I've had the yearning to carve out a couple of months to focus on doing this project again. I worked very deliberately to create this space in my schedule after I released Omnicube last summer, and now it's finally, finally h

I'm incredibly excited to say that One Game a Week 2019 starts tomorrow, February 11th! Before I officially embark on developing my first game, I wanted to talk a little bit about some of my plans for the upcoming weeks. I have a few ideas for some of the games and systems I want to develop, and I thought it would be fun to share some of those at the outset. We'll see if these ideas actually end up getting translated into real OGAW entries, or if they stay in my notebook for

With One Game a Week 2019 starting in just a few days, I've been thinking a lot about the last time I worked on this kind of project. I wanted to take some time to look back on the games I created five years ago. I thought it would be interesting to see what I was able to accomplish in a week back then, and how that compares to the games I create this year. So let's take a little stroll into the past. The year is 2014. Flappy Bird was released less than a year earlier. Candy

Choosing My Next Project At the end of the summer, I found myself asking what comes next for my game development career. I’m ready now to answer that question. I released my first commercial game at the end of May 2018 — a challenging puzzle game called Omnicube. I spent some time marketing and supporting the game after the launch, and then took a much-needed break from the world of full-time game development. I worked on a book and I did some work for some other projects, bu