Category: Manage the Universe
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19 – Having fun modelling
I have been working on 2 complementary things at the same time: improving my modelling skills and finding a suiting art style for Manage the Universe. I love the process of modelling with Blender, it is really satisfying for me. And I find it easy to get myself to work on modelling, so I that…
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Bi-Weekly update 18
Hi, Erik here. A solo game developer doing his ‘thing’. Currently I’m writing this on the evening of my weekend. For me writing this article is a fun way to get me thinking about all the things I accomplished the past to weeks. And for you a way to keep notice of the interesting things…
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Prototype phase 2
Product development is a hard thing to do. It is so easy to want to go too fast. The reasons don’t matter: if you don’t have enough information on your product and its market yet, you are in for a bumpy ride if you push through. I know all this stuff from business software development,…
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Bi-Weekly update 17
Manage the Universe Last update I wanted to create a holographic view of the second world detail level. But I would not be me if I worked on something else. I had a hard time determining how it should look like so I decided to let the idea mature a bit more. Asking for a…
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Bi-Weekly update 16
Business A quick overview of the business side of things. Due to the whole COVID thing there is still much uncertainty in the market. Especially on the freelance / consultancy side. And since I am a single developer with no profitable game released yet, my money comes from savings of the freelancing I do in…
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Bi-Weekly update 15
Manage the Universe Another two weeks of progress have been made on ‘Manage the Universe’. Still working on very rough concepts. But I have some nice screenshots to spice it up! World surface generator Most of the work went into the tile generator. This system will generate the surface of the world where your character…
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Bi-Weekly update 14
Manage the Universe Two weeks of hard work have gone into ‘Manage the Universe’. I wanted to get a visual stimulating progress to show to you my readers… but instead I ended up creating a lot of code and doing a few sessions on game design. I’m getting an idea of what I want with…
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Bi-Weekly update 12
Manage the Universe I have been working on Manage the Universe for a few weeks now, and I am still in the prototype phase. A few idea’s are getting more refined during this process, so that is what I want to show you today. Remember the layers 1-6 I proposed in Bi-Weekly update 11? Here…
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Bi-Weekly update 11
New mailing list idea There are a lot of people around me and my family that like to know what it is that I do, and how things are going with my game company. For them I have this email list in Mailchimp. I’m going to change some things to this email list. Currently it…