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Game Design

3 Reasons Why You Should Hire a Real Artist For Your Project

March 2, 2010

I’m currently working with an artist on character designs and the main title screen for Arvale: Treasure of Memories, Episode II. While kicking around ideas and describing a few pictures in my head, we thought it would be a good idea for me to sketch out what I was thinking.
I’m wanting to do something with [...]

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Arvale: Treasure of Memories, Episode II News

February 12, 2010

Design is well underway on the Episode II for Arvale: Treasure of Memories and I just thought I’d post a few tidbits on it.
The artist has already started on the new art for the title screen and the characters in the game. He some some really cool ideas for it, so I’m pretty anxious to [...]

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Arvale Flash Prototype

February 6, 2010

While switching servers recently, I ran across this old thing on my server:

You might have to right-click on it and select ‘Play’ for it to work. Click on it, then use Up/Down/Left/Right arrows to move around.
It’s an old Flash prototype for Arvale I made while I was sick at home 2 years ago messing around [...]

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Interview with Legendary Leisure Suit Larry Designer, Al Lowe

January 27, 2010

I just had the amazing chance to interview an absolute legend in game design, story writing, humor, coding, music, audio… everything! Mr. Al Lowe.

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Jaybot7 Interviews Last Day of Work’s Arthur Humphrey

December 8, 2009
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Today, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet with (and interview) a well-respected game designer and friend, Arthur Humphrey of Last Day of Work (or LDW for short).
Last Day of Work is responsible for the wildly successful Virtual Villager series of games, as well as several other great Independent Casual Game titles such as Fish [...]

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Escape from Hellenvyrde Gameplay Video

November 22, 2009

Here’s entertainment for your Sunday Afternoon

For those of you who want to see Escape from Hellenvyrde, but don’t want to actually get Neverwinter Nights just to play it (read: everyone)– I’ve recorded this 20 minute video for you. It plays through the entire demo so you can see the gameplay and conversations. Vimeo [...]

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Arvale: Treasure of Memory Update, Almost Done

November 19, 2009
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It’s 1:00AM and I’m blogging an update on Arvale: Treasure of Memories for you. That’s how dedicated I am
I’ll just post a bunch of screenshots first as it will give me some time to formulate words:

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MMORPGs Suck, And Are The Future of Gaming, Part 2

November 16, 2009
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We’re continuing from Part 1: here. We left off with my gaming friend B-Dawg reporting that:
‘Online Games have expanded the experience  beyond waiting for your friends to come over and play. Like, what’s Street Fighter without a human opponent?’

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MMORPGs Suck, And Are The Future of Gaming, Part 1

November 14, 2009
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I’ll most likely get in trouble for this post. Lots of developers disagree and many have their eggs in this basket. But someone has to say it, might as well be me For the record, MMORPG refers to Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. This refers to games like Everquest and World of [...]

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Learn Japanese While Playing Dragon Quest IX

November 11, 2009
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I picked up Dragon Quest IX while I was recently in Tokyo. I bought the game for two main reasons. One, because it’s a new Dragon Quest. And I love me some Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior on the NES in the States).
This is the same reason I will buy every new Bon Jovi album, the [...]

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