Category: game development

• PGDF Awards (part 2)

  (part 1 here) The application process could have been simpler. The nomination instructions were hidden in a subpage. I had to get birth certificates and stuff just to prove the games are authentic Filipino. Are we that distrustful as an industry that we’ll think someone is going to cheat here? Last Wednesday, I received an […]

  Julius The Pious

  November 26, 2011

  game, game development

  awards, game, pgdf

• PGDF Awards (part 1)

  Getting awards isn’t really a priority in all my game-makings. I’m not keen in joining sponsored/professional competitions. They tend to be serious and stressful and that level of competition just isn’t fun for me. Besides, the games I like to make and the games judges expect rarely exist in the same universe. Sure, I dream […]

  Julius The Pious

  November 26, 2011

  game, game development

  awards, games, pgdf

• From Flash to Atari 2600

  For more almost 2 months now, I’ve been trying to learn making games on this: Why (normal answer)? I didn’t have real assembly programming experience so I have no idea how hard the ‘good old days’ actually were. (Blame my college instructor who only met us thrice, gave us passing grades and disappeared). I want […]

  Julius The Pious

  November 16, 2011

  game, game development

  assembly, atari, game development

• How to make an “educational” Math game

  Dudes, I am not an educator. I taught some classes, yes, but I don’t have formal education on educating. I don’t claim to be an expert on teaching kids. But I am, to a certain extent, a gamer. But nope, I’m not hardcore. Just a gamer. My Personal Sad Story Here’s my personal sad story: I […]

  Julius The Pious

  June 3, 2011

  game, game development

• Open and Free

  Yessir, I spawned yet another open-source hobby project. Here are the codes: https://github.com/zerojuan/ForgeStory-Server https://github.com/zerojuan/ForgeStory-Client In terms of technology and innovation, this project is nothing special. There are a lot of other games like it, the concept isn’t new. I try to keep the code as easy to maintain as possible but that’s the norm. So […]

  Julius The Pious

  May 31, 2011

  game, game development, social games

• Forge Story, The Next Chapter

  As promised, I am going to start updating Forge Story once the LD judging is over. I was supposed to keep working on it on a local server the weeks prior, but I keep getting sidetracked with personal (read: unemployment) issues. And I’m afraid I’ll be sidetracked even more as my not-receiving-a-salary status worsens.   […]

  Julius The Pious

  May 26, 2011

  game development, social games

• Forge Story: A #LD48 Post Mortem

  I made a Facebook game in under 48 hours. What’s the game about? The theme for this quarter’s Ludum Dare was “It’s Dangerous to Go Alone, Take This”. So I immediately thought that it would be perfect for a facebook or social network game. The original vision was a trading game between players. They can […]

  Julius The Pious

  May 5, 2011

  game, game development, social games

• A Poor Person’s Guide to Making a Facebook Game: A Intro

  Dudes, here’s the thing. When I was first starting out on this Facebook game making business I had no idea how complicated things would get. It’s like no one told me about this side of flash programming. You can’t just google and forum lurk your way into wisdom. You have to go deep, like 5+ […]

  Julius The Pious

  April 16, 2011

  flash, game programming, social games

  facebook game, how to, social games

• Sextinction Art Update

  Background I joined the Global Game Jam and made a sex game called Sextinction. It features some of the improvements I made on RPGAutomata (aka my RPG Engine). I spent majority of the weekend getting a pretty kewl dialog tree system up and running. The game turned out crappy. It was crap because of two […]

  Julius The Pious

  February 3, 2011

  game, game development, Uncategorized

  game, game jam, sextinction

• If U R in it, CH side by side

  .. is a lame riddle I learned as a child. Oh look: New updates to that RPG engine I’m making includes dynamically changing the tilesets and adding mouse controls. So I decided to make a game that features it. This game is about Catholics and their churches. It isn’t ready yet, hence the screenshot. The […]

  Julius The Pious

  January 18, 2011

  eclipse, flash, game, game development

  game, RPG, RPGAutomata