Author: Peter
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Halloween Forever Dev Blog: Knockback, bosses, platforms
Last week I wound up spending only one night working on Halloween Forever stuff so I didn’t have as much to write up a full summary. With last week added onto this week’s additions I think there’s a nice chunk of progress to show. Player knockback is in and getting polished https://www.instagram.com/p/BCrbAmPv2EV Player knockback is…
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Halloween Forever Dev Blog: Big Skeleton
A really big skeleton! This week had another boss / miniboss coming together. The big skeleton! Spoilers below if you don’t want to preview boss content! Big skeleton has a really big sword. He swings it at you in a pretty nasty overhead swipe. I’m thinking it will send out some shockwaves that you want…
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Resources for Learning GameMaker
Some of my favorite GameMaker resources I started messing around with GameMaker back in Summer 2014 starting from knowing nothing about game programming. The closest things comparable I had done were miscellaneous html and css work and some basic Flash AS2 projects way back around 2007. I found documentation on GML scripting and other topics…
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Halloween Forever Dev Blog: Boss Parade
Halloween Forever Bosses are coming in strong! Over the last week or so I’ve been spending most of my work time animating some larger enemies (be they level bosses or minibosses). Either way they’ve been coming together with some really fun results. Spoilers below if you don’t want to preview boss content! Let’s take a…
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Deathstate and Halloween Forever interviews
I’m not sure what happened, maybe a full moon or some ley line action taking place, but I wound up getting to participate in some nice articles and interviews recently. I hope you enjoy them! Links to everything below. Playboy.com – Indie Horror Games Have the Freedom to Get Really Weird http://www.playboy.com/articles/indie-horror-games-freedom-get-weird Max Weinstein reached…
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Halloween Forever Dev Blog: v. 1.021 and content sprint
Halloween Forever v. 1.021 I’m playing catch up a little, realizing I’ve been getting work done and documenting it a lot on my Twitter and Instagram but doing a poor job of having some descriptive lasting posts to talk about it. Also I’ve been hemming and hawing over where to actually post my Halloween Forever…