→ Game Producer | 9 Mar 2010 | 6:49pm GMT
Online multiplayer is a tricky beast. There’s couple of things that make it bit difficult to decide from an indie dev perspective: 1) Online multiplayer is cool. Like the coolest way to play games. NHL ‘10 gets boring playing against CPU… but put there 12 human players on the ice and you are looking at a totally different experience. Left 4 Dead – I tried it like once solo (boooooring), but go for online multiplayer and i...
→ Game Producer | 8 Mar 2010 | 9:43am GMT
I have experience and some clue how much doing 3D stuff costs, and before jumping into 2D world I’m doing a bit of research. Inspired by this fine piece of pixel art. I’m trying to find out how much it could cost to do something like the stuff in the picture. (Scene + some objects + guy with a batt + a 4-5 simple animations for characters, for starters). I have no clue how much it costs to do pixel art. If you happen to know a pixel...
→ Game Producer | 7 Mar 2010 | 7:47pm GMT
If you read my yesterday’s blog post, you probably noticed I bought bragging rights (that would be Playstation 3) for some very unknown reason as I have no time to play it anyway in the nearly future (baby coming in any day now). Anyway, with my newly purchased PS3 I also got NHL ‘10. There was several things that caught my eye in terms of “casual friendly”. Casual games are more about “guiding player gently to do s...
→ Tales of the Rampant Coyote | 7 Mar 2010 | 10:03am GMT
We've now successfully transitioned over to the new blogging software. Please update your RSS Feeds!Update: The feedburner feed seems to be working better than the previous link, so use this one:http://feeds.feedburner.com/TalesOfTheRampantCoyoteIf you are seeing this message, it means you are still on the old feed. That's old & busted. Use the new hotness one!I hope you like the new digs!Did you enjoy this article? Be sure and check out past...
→ Game Producer | 6 Mar 2010 | 7:13pm GMT
This article is about game design and “knowing better than others”. I got PS3 + NHL ‘10 couple of days ago. I read some reviews and heard that NHL provides a “be a pro mode” where you can create your own custom player and gain experience during your ice hockey career. After I heard about this (please keep in mind that my NHL experience stopped to ‘95 since all those ‘97, ‘01 were crappy) I thought t...
→ Tales of the Rampant Coyote | 6 Mar 2010 | 12:47am GMT
We're about to transition to the new blog. Like, this weekend. If nothing explodifies.The existing archives will remain - they aren't going anywhere. So all the old links and so forth should work. And we'll have a nice link back to all this (six-freakin'-years-worth of) bloggy goodness.As for everything else... well, hang on to your butts! It's gonna be a wild ride!UPDATE:PLEASE UPDATE YOUR RSS FEEDS!Here's the new RSS Feed LINK!http://rampantgam...
→ Tales of the Rampant Coyote | 5 Mar 2010 | 3:14pm GMT
Wow. I'm not sure what's worse, the cold or the medication.Inflicted with such disease as I am, I am reminded of an old RPG that I doubt very many people remember... Twilight: 2000. I played both the pen & paper version and the CRPG (by Paragon Software, later assimilated into Microprose, which was later assimilated into... yeah, you get the idea)One of the randomly-generated missions you could encounter in Twilight: 2000 (the cRPG) was one w...
→ Tales of the Rampant Coyote | 4 Mar 2010 | 4:50pm GMT
Just... play it. If you haven't already.Persistence is futile!Did you enjoy this article? Be sure and check out past articles and the comments HERE. Rampant Games: Games With Personality! Check out the latest indie role-playing games here!...
→ Tales of the Rampant Coyote | 4 Mar 2010 | 3:06pm GMT
It's time for another of those updates on Frayed Knights, the upcoming indie role-playing game that refuses to take itself too seriously. This week we're gonna talk nuts & bolts of the game some more. If the topic sounds tiring, it's because that's what it's about --- getting tired.Adventurers lead strenuous lives. When they are slinging spells and swinging swords in life-or-death conflicts, or traversing treacherous trap-filled, uh, territor...
→ Tales of the Rampant Coyote | 4 Mar 2010 | 1:11pm GMT
This might make a killer RPG, too....Did you enjoy this article? Be sure and check out past articles and the comments HERE. Rampant Games: Games With Personality! Check out the latest indie role-playing games here!...
