dq2 Reflecting and recharging - October 2020 This past October I did something I haven't done in over 6 years – took a vacation with my family. After I got back I took some time to reorganize some things in my life, and a plan for DQ2's continued development.
dq2 Collecting Details: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for September 2020 September's progress report includes changes to item design, status effect display, defender placement, and lots of other details.
gamedatacrunch GameDataCrunch: my facts-first game metrics website I'm working on a new website called GameDataCrunch.com, a new way to understand the game industry by looking at metrics and slicing them up in a bunch of different ways.
dq2 Defender's Quest 2 Progress for August 2020: Electric Four Square Once again emphasizing visual communication: - Energy shields - Show buff zones more clearly - Ultimate is now a 2x2 sized unit
defenders-quest Fun vs. Balance: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for July 2020 In previous months we've talked about how we ensure that DQ2 is balanced.Today we're going to talk about how we ensure that DQ2 is fun.
news Independent once more: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for June 2020 Notes on ending my contract with Valve, and a progress update for June
nintendo The Evolution of Game Genres: NES, Gameboy, and SNES Ever wonder where game genres came from? Let's look at how Nintendo's usage of them evolved over time.
dq2 Back in the Saddle: Defender's Quest 2 / my life progress report for May 2020 Time for an extremely overdue update on everything going on with Defender's Quest 2 development and my life in general.
dq2 Extra Quarantine: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for April 2020 Progress report for May 2020 -- quarantine is hard, but we still did some stuff.
defenders-quest Balancing Quarantine: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for March 2020 Quarantine sucks, but DQ2 is still making progress. Learn all about balancing careful intro stages for our hero units.
dq2 Laser Lightning Bugs in the Spotlight: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for February 2020 This month, we're working on visual design language and gamefeel.
dq2 Defender's Quest 2 Progress: January 2020 Defender's Quest 2's progress report for the month of January.
defenders-quest Defender's Quest 2 Progress: December 2019 December progress report for Defender's Quest 2
defenders-quest Collecting Power -- Defender's Quest 2 Progress: November 2019 It's mid-November, so here's the latest progress report for DQ2. Details on the "Collector" and "Eliminator" classes.
Defender's Quest 2 tester/backer build out today Hey everyone! So after a few months of massively destabilizing the Defender's Quest 2 build, today I'm proud to say that we're ready to start regularly testing things and gathering feedback again. The
dq2 Steamy Bees -- Defender's Quest 2 Progress: September 2019 Let's talk about angry intelligent bees in Defender's Quest 2 in this month's progress report!
meta Setting Boundaries, Open Source, & Gamedev on Consoles I am setting some personal and professional boundaries.
defenders-quest Defender's Quest 2 Progress: August 2019 It's the ides of August, which means it's time for another infodump progress report for Defender's Quest 2. Skill trees and character classes and a bunch of other stuff.
defenders-quest Defender's Quest 2 Progress: February-July 2019 We're starting something new -- Defender's Quest 2 monthly infodump progress reports.
design Wash your game's windows Ever played one of those games where you have no clue what any of the mechanics actually do and you just kind of muddle through? Playing this kind of game is like peering through a dirty, smudged window. What a game like this needs is some Windex.
steam So You Want To Compete With Steam: Epic, Discord, Kartridge, and RobotCache Four new competitors have emerged to take on Steam: Epic, Discord, Kartridge, and RobotCache. Let's see how they stack up.
steam Operation Tell Valve All The Things, 3.0 I surveyed a bunch of Steam developers and they told me how they feel about recent developments.
steam How to scientifically survey all of Steam's developers If you ever wanted to survey every Steam developer in existence, here's how you might do that.
