New game The collaboration with the designer and graphics artist Bart Metselaar takes shapes. Over the past 2 weeks we had frequent meetings to get an idea of the game we wanted to make. The main character is a fox, in search for food, and winter is coming. Here are some initial drawings to getContinue reading “Bi-weekly update 3”
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Bi-Weekly update 2
Release of Gearful Play this game for free in your webbrowser on Itch.io: https://gamefeelings.itch.io/gearful As you might have noticed on the GameFeeling socials: Gearful has been launched. I am really thankful for everyone helping, like Ben and Tom (Auroriax) during the globalgamejam in January this year, Ben for motivating to continue developing, and Tom forContinue reading “Bi-Weekly update 2”
Bi-Weekly update – 1
Progress on: Gearful We have decided to give Gearful a finishing touch, fix some low hanging fruit, and bring the game to Android (mobile). ‘Gearful’ is a game that Tom, Ben and I made during the GlobalGameJam last Januari. Things that have been taken care of past 2 weeks are: level management, mobile UI, dependencyContinue reading “Bi-Weekly update – 1”
The Decade in Games
This article touches a talk I attended at Amsterdam White Nights 2020 conference. The talk is about statistics of the video games market in the past decade. Numbers like these are often not available for starters in the industry because they require connections to acquire or a lot of money to get. I Understand thereContinue reading “The Decade in Games”
Revenue expectations
How much income do I think my game dev will make me? To be honest: I will be glad if 2020 makes me 1000 euro. In comparison. As some of you know I am a Freelance software developer for a max of 32 hours a week. My projection is this will get me roughly 75kContinue reading “Revenue expectations”
Beyond survivor-ship bias
I waited long before entering the game dev scene. For a long time I thought “well, maybe I’m not ready yet” and then another year passed by. But over time I got inspired by success stories of little studios making a name for themselves. There are a lot of inspiring stories out there, like ‘IndieContinue reading “Beyond survivor-ship bias”
Jenkins build with Unity3D
If you want to spend less time building and fixing bugs you want to setup a build/test pipeline for your Unity3D projects. I did this with Jenkins because I like to start small. I know of services like Azure DevOps en Unity Cloud: they are fun to start with but very expensive if you continueContinue reading “Jenkins build with Unity3D”
GlobalGameJam 2020
I attended the 2020 globalgamejam.org gamejam hosted by BUas in Breda, Netherlands. On our location over 200 jammers did a hackaton-alike attempt at creating novel games. Together with two other jammers, Tom and Ben, I constructed the game ‘gearful’ during the 48 hours gamejam. Check out this brief video for the gameplay: The theme ofContinue reading “GlobalGameJam 2020”
Attending Amsterdam White Nights 2020
I am an Indie developer and I want to spend my resources wisely. I couldn’t find that much detail on what to expect on Amsterdam White Nights. So here is my 2020 take on the Amsterdam White Nights Conference. TLDR: nice event, good talks, not that great for a starting or small Indie unless youContinue reading “Attending Amsterdam White Nights 2020”
GameFeelings is official now
As of 1 January 2020 GameFeelings is an official Dutch registered company. I, Erik de Roos, have quite my job to give GameFeelings dedicated time. This website has had an overhaul to support the new course for GameFeelings. The main products are: experiments/academic research, games (from experiments), blog posts (about the experiments/research) The main productContinue reading “GameFeelings is official now”
