We just finished working through the initial large set of edits on Rosette LARP, and wow, it was an intense process—it took about 18 person-hours to work through. Our copyeditor ("B") was delightfully methodical and caught some interesting things.

Revealing Questions

B noted several places where the meaning of ...

Sometimes in game development (and in development at large) you spend a lot of time on a task that's less important because you think it should be simple. We ran into one of those issues lately involving an input method for our nearly-finished remastering of "(I Fell in Love ...

Our upcoming remaster of "The Majesty of Colors" will be available on a bunch of devices: iOS and Android phones and tablets as well as Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs. We're excited to release on such a wide array of platforms, but it raises some development challenges!

The ...

We have about 12 different sites or parts of sites that could have outages and two of us to manage them. Some of these have been up for years, and some are newer. Some applications require special installation or debugging, and some must be on differently-configured servers.

When one of those goes down, we both need to know how to diagnose and fix it as soon as possible. So how do we manage that?

Great news: our remaster of (I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors is now playable from beginning to end. We're still working on coding up the opening and closing narration and the menus, but the core of the game is complete with all of the original branches.

We've ...

We're still hard at work remastering The Majesty of Colors. It's taking longer than we'd hoped, especially with both of us working full-time jobs in addition to Future Proof work. Despite the delays, the game is shaping up nicely!

We've completed the basic framework of the game, including the ...

As part of the remastering of "(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors", we're making a sweep of the sounds in the game. We aren't finished yet, but here's an example of some of the sounds of the opening from the original Flash version of the ...

There are only two sure things in life when it comes to e-commerce: bugs and taxes. We dealt with both this past week.

We're fans of Live-Action Roleplaying, or LARP, at Future Proof Games. Not particularly the kind where you run around in the woods with foam swords; more the sort where you dress up as vampires and talk to each other. We've played a lot of theatrical LARP, mostly using the Mind's ...

This is the fourth part in a series on applying devops principles and practices to game development. The first post in the series is here, and the entire series can be found under the devops in game dev tag.

In our post on retrospectives, we wrote about taking note of lessons learned (good and bad) after emergencies or breakpoints in your project—after you deliver a feature, or at the end of a sprint or some unit of time. But how do you know what a good breakpoint is? How do you actually incorporate what you've learned in a retrospective into your future work?

Through effective project planning.