Games I played this year (2023)
Another year, another list! Here’s games I played this year. Special categories at the bottom, of course. Unclickbait title: You’ll Absolutely Believe the Most Impactful Game this year because it is so obvious! New Games List These are games that were new. I didn’t revisit a lot of my old favorites this year, at least…
D7 Retros: Dialogue Integration Prototype
This year I’ve been working on the 4th iteration of a project I had the idea for in 2017. D7 is an open world RPG focused on trade and diplomacy where you play as a dragon. I’ve created a landing page for my prototypes I’m putting together here: https://d7ga.me In November, I decided that instead…
Textbook Review: AI for Games by Ian Millington (Third Edition)
(clickbait title: my new band name is “Aspirational Negascout”) Introduction In the Games Programming course we teach at George mason, we spend some time teaching AI programming. At the back of my mind, I’m always wondering, are we preparing students for the programming challenges of the industry? As games get harder and harder to make,…
Games I played this year (2022)
Ah, it’s time for another games I played list. Getting to this before the middle of the year this year. I’m using a different structure. New games get their own slots, and returning favorites I won’t say extra time played, just total if that number exist. We’ll end with my qualitative awards for the year.…
Idea Fairy Visits – 2022
At an IGDA meeting this year, we got to talking about all the ideas we couldn’t finish. It can be challenging to see a project through to completion. In fact, Micha created a game about just that, called “Crunch Time.” – https://ghostmaple.itch.io/crunch-time . It’s based on a web comic about game dev, where it seems…
Googled It: Blackboard use a Rubric on non-submitted assignment with manual override
I recently ran into a situation where I was providing grades in blackboard, but didn’t require an actual submission to receive a grade, since it was just reviewing previous work. However, the assignment had a rubric that I wanted to use. Blackboard doesn’t intend for you to do this. The point of a manual override…
Googled It: Adding multiple tracks in Audacity. Hotkey for adding a stereo track in audacity
I recently needed to add a whole bunch of tracks in audacity for separate dialogue lines that I was slicing for export. I googled “How do I add multiple tracks at once in audacity” and it was hopeless. This isn’t something that normal people do with audacity. Next, I tried to google the hotkey for…
Games I played this year (2021)
Alternative Clickbait Title: “You won’t believe which game was most impactful to this game designer!!!” (Oh man am I late on this. I started it on January 12, but I figure I better finish it before the end of 2022, at least) Another year, another time to review what games I played this year. I…
Global Game Jam 2021: Sole Searching
Introduction For the 2021 Global Game Jam, I joined a team with Callen Shaw (callen.me) and Steve Ritter to create the game Sole Searching (You can download and play the VR game for free on itch.io). The theme for the 2021 jam was “Lost and Found”, and Callen came up with an idea based around…
Games I played this year (2020)
As we get to the end of the year, I’m forced to come to terms with my game-playing habits. You are what you eat, as it were. I have to ask myself, do the games I played have an influence on me as a designer? Definitely. But which one do I think had the biggest…
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