Loerbeek, Nederland
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Tag: indie games

Back from holidays!

And they were great!   Just before I left I managed to push The Carter Jones to the Android store, that makes four in a row:           All made possible through the magic of cross-platformness by MadeWithMarmalade – they have actually made the ‘starter’ version free now for everyone to use! …

The Carter Jones Adventures Windows Phone release and before

  It has been a long, long time since I wrote up something for this website. In the meantime, I became a proud daddy of a very beautiful daughter! Words can not describe how happy she makes me. The flipside, of course, is that I spend a lot of time being a daddy and that …

Animationtool finished (well, almost finished!)

I was watching a documentary about SKA Studios the other day and noticed they’ve got a great custom tool to edit animations for their games. As I was struggling with the animations for my game as well, I figured something like what they have would be a solution for me. You see, memory is a …

Work in progress 2.

Last month brought some real progress in the game’s mechanics: I implemented inertia for the players movement, parallax scrolling, I added and then removed the energy bar that indicates your energy. Actually that last little bit is something I picked up from an interview that I saw with Michael Gagne, he mentioned that in his …