Well here we are, after eight years of roguelike development and blogging, it’s time to try a little something new: I’ve set up a Patreon page! If you’ve never heard of it before, Patreon is basically a subscription service through which you can support individual creators and their work. A number of developers have relied […]
For years I’ve been taking a pretty standardized approach to designing each new map in Cogmind, and although we have dozens of them now, it’s one of the few topics I’ve never covered on the blog. This is essentially because a serious in-depth look at the entire process would require spoiling a lot of content, […]
It almost seems unbelievable, but we’re already pushing into our sixth year of full-time development! Once again it’s time to look back over the past year at our progress, which in 2018 includes several major releases, other roguelike happenings, and our first full year on Steam. Here’s an image collage to get us started :D […]
I rather enjoy debugging. It’s just another type of puzzle, one of the many challenges of gamedev approached with logic and the tools at hand. It should be noted I actually don’t much like debugging if it involves a bunch of code I didn’t write, but this is why I almost entirely use my own […]
Picking up where we left off at the end of Part 3, an in-depth look at the map generation and content work… The Last Minute With all my planned balance time eaten up by adding content, there wasn’t much left for… “proper” balance. There was nowhere near enough time to do all the math required, […]
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