Managing a games company is no different to managing any other organisation, group or project. There are some small subtle difference but in the end to make progress you need to set tasks to complete and deadlines you actually meet. We realised relatively early on we needed a central organised way of ensuring the team knew what was required of them and how much time they had. Welcome to the world of project management. (more…)
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The Technology of a Deadworld Series Introduction
We’ve decided to write a series of posts that will cover the range of different technology we use to aid us at Deadworld Studios. In each post we’ll discuss the specific areas of management, game design and development which lead us to adopt an existing solution or develop our own solution to aid us. Moving further into our need we’ll discuss what options we were presented with, the reasons behind our choice and how we utilised it. We’ll reflect on our experiences and if this has lead us to do things differently in the future. We have a few interesting stories centered around the times we went through with the technology so those will be thrown in too for good measure!
Stay tuned for our first entry!
Interfacing with UI #4 – Coherent UI
February 5th, 2016This is part of a series of posts revolving around user interface design and development, the introduction and links to the other posts can be found here. Last I wrote about user interfaces I discussed the new Unity UI system and I wrote about our process of porting from Daikon Forge to it. That was a year and a half ago and a lot has changed since then. To keep things interesting we decided to move from Unity UI (yet another move?!) to Coherent UI and I’ll explain why we did it. Why Move… Again?!... (read more)
@SolitudeGame: Status update: Fuel reserves low. Asteroid mining facility detected on sensors. No response to our communications. On approach station appears to be abandoned and running on emergency power only. Away mission approved. Mission objective: Search and salvage - fuel is a priority.
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@RogueVec: And so it begins! #RebootDevelop
19/04/2018 @ 8:05am UTC
@RogueVec: We'll be at @RebootDevelop this year. We can't wait! If you want to hang out just give us a shout! #RebootDevelop2018 #GameDev
16/04/2018 @ 12:06pm UTC
@SolitudeGame: Fullscreen terminals allow you to hook into your ship's guns for fine control! Moddable gun modules, terminals and UI! https://t.co/B5N01jrA70 #GameDev
8/12/2017 @ 4:58pm UTC
@CWolf: Woo! And, now we have a cross-compiled (nix --> win64) @SolitudeGame server in our build and deploy pipeline #RV #GameDev
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