The Chronicle

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The Return

All right, so I am back from a video game bender that took me to all kinds of crazy places. And upon my return, I have concocted a dread year-end list...which I figure I should write about before i...

Oh no!

Holy crap, the yearly Steam sale begins and I am foreseeing a long hiatus in development on my game. I mean, this is just silly.You see, the problem is that I'm really, really cheap. So all through...

Gathering Storm - Menu System

I don't think I entertained any ideas for menu design other than the design used in every "Shining" series game I can think of. Growing up playing Shining in the Darkness, Shining Force and Shining...

Gathering Storm - Stairs and treasure chests, the basic blocks of dungeon building

So we left off with a riveting foray into the third dimension (well, you could still only move in 2, but it kinda looked like 3D). From there I went about implementing what every good dungeon needs...

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D&D - The Gristhounds and the Prophesy Stone

I think the idea for the gristhounds formed in my head the session before I actually ran them. I was laying down some exposition, having an NPC explain how the group needed to kill these animals to...

Gathering Storm - The Second Day

After a truly riveting first day, there were still, well, a couple things that still needed improvement.The foremost of these issues was that the control scheme in that first program wasn't even ri...