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Grapplers: Relic Rivals – Steam Announcement!

After quite a few months of getting the art updated and pouring over tons of design details, I’m elated to announce that the Steam page for Grapplers: Relic Rivals is now live! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2906890/Grapplers_Relic_Rivals You have no idea how much simply wishlisting the game can help! Grapplers: Relic Rivals will be releasing on Steam in summerContinue reading “Grapplers: Relic Rivals – Steam Announcement!”

Ally Productions is Looking for a Pixel Art Generalist (Paid Contract)

Current position status: CLOSED The Position Ally Productions is looking for a 2D pixel art generalist for a short term, paid contract for Grapplers: Relic Rivals, my upcoming 2D PVP platformer with grappling hooks. All art in the game is currently temp, so your job would be updating the existing art with Real Art™, and creatingContinue reading “Ally Productions is Looking for a Pixel Art Generalist (Paid Contract)”

Grapplers: Relic Rivals – Alpha Playtest Build!

After a few months of hard work, Grapplers: Relic Rivals is ready for an alpha playtest! The alpha build can be downloaded on itch.io here. I also created a survey to gather playtest feedback. If you play the game, I’d appreciate you letting me know what you think – Good, bad, or otherwise. Keep in mind theContinue reading “Grapplers: Relic Rivals – Alpha Playtest Build!”

Untitled PVP Grapple Game – First Playable Playtest Build!

Work on my indie game – a 2D PVP platformer with grappling hooks – has been going extremely well lately! So well, in fact, that I’m ready to invite people to playtest the first playable build! Much of the game is still being stood up, so the gameplay is a little bare-bones, but I findContinue reading “Untitled PVP Grapple Game – First Playable Playtest Build!”

Random Generation Done Right

We can design better randomly generated spaces in games. Here’s how.

My New Adventure

After much deliberation, I decided to leave my job at BioWare to try my hand at indie game development, which has always been a dream of mine. While I have no delusions that going indie poses its own challenges, I’m extremely excited to take creative control into my own hands and to be able toContinue reading “My New Adventure”

Hogwarts Legacy Launch

I’m a tad late in writing this post, but Hogwarts Legacy has launched! I worked on the game for roughly a year very early in development. I worked remotely with folks at Avalanche Software on side missions, and helped them develop some of their mission tech and structure. I was also very fortunate to getContinue reading “Hogwarts Legacy Launch”

What Makes a Good Quest Designer?

I was recently asked the question, “What makes a good quest designer?” I’ve got a lot of experience in quest design, but I had never sat down and actually thought about what skills or traits made me good at what I do. After thinking about it for a bit, I came up with an answer:Continue reading “What Makes a Good Quest Designer?”

Overwatch Montage Videos

For the past year or two, some I’ve been playing quite a bit of Overwatch with friends of mine. While doing so, I’ve been utilizing the Highlights feature quite a bit, which, after thinking about it, is an extremely smart feature to get people to create content to promote the game. I decided to tryContinue reading “Overwatch Montage Videos”

Creativity Tips

A few months ago, a friend asked me for tips on being creative. We ended up talking for a few hours about the whole creative process from start to finish, and some of the ideas that we bounced back and forth were great tidbits of information that I hadn’t really thought too much about before.Continue reading “Creativity Tips”