A friend and former colleague of mine, Zeya asked in the group chat last week if anyone was interested in entering a multiplayer Jackbox Game Jam. As I haven’t done a lot of hands on multiplayer work, I thought it would be a good learning opportunity, and so I said sure, why not. It was…
Surviving Lay Off – 2026 Edition
At times I have been guilty of romanticizing a systematic upheaval in my day to day life. Like how we sometimes glorify the apocalypse because, sure, it will be worse, but it will also be refreshing not to slog to work every damn day. Surely that’s not just me…right? While we know these scenarios would…
How I Made It: A Player Decision Manager
As I prepare my next update for Fair Weather, I thought it might be nice to dive into one of the features of the game and explain how I brought it together technically. The feature I’ll discuss today is my Player Decision Manager. What is it? Well simply put, it’s a multiple choice question presented…
Chef Shelf
I’m making something and it’s not a game. But it has me excited so I thought I’d share it with you. For work, the frontend team and myself are trying to delve deeper into backend programming land so that we can remove some of the bottlenecks on our very small team. To that end, we’ve…
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With Fair Weather in the App Store I thought it might be nice to share a few cheats to help along any players who find themselves stuck. I built a hidden console into the game inspired by the Sims. You can access it by repeatedly tapping on the app version in the settings menu. (Yeah,…
The Road to IndieCade
Look at that Trello board. It’s beautiful. Clean. Sure, it’s not empty. What you don’t see pictured above is about six more lists filled with ideas, bugs, features and enhancements, but don’t kill my vibe. This post is a celebration and we’re living in times very much in need of some good news. I finished…
I love deadlines.
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams IGF deadline was yesterday! Did I make it in time? No. Obviously. Come on people, context clues! So this is the second deadline I missed this year. (The first one was for Indiecade, whose submission window had been moved…
I made a thing!
I made a trailer for Fair Weather! I used Divinci Resolve for the editing and plain old Quicktime for screen recording. I LOVE the song I found from the site Nihilore.com. It’s called As Nihilism Gives Way To Existentialism. I’ll probably do another cut in the future with more details on where and when the game…
So close and yet so far
I’m getting the app ready for the Play Store! I heard the Independent Games Festival, or IGF, submissions were open and thought, why not go for it? I missed the IndieCade deadline earlier this year, and while I wasn’t planning on submitting to IGF, I don’t see why I shouldn’t try. So, what is IGF?…
Dev Update #2
#GameGoals A lot of time has passed since my last update. The IndieCade submission deadline has come and gone. I decided about a month before that happened that I wasn’t in a great position to show the game and while I still used that date as a personal milestone, I just didn’t want to kill…