With an unprecedented number of people interviewing in the games industry nowadays, I thought now would be a good time to write up some interview questions to be prepared for, as well as general interview tips. Since I’m a game designer, these are largely going to be focused on the design side, but many ofContinue reading “Top Game Design Interview Questions (And How to Answer Them)”
Tag Archives: Game Design
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.
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”
Postmortem: The Lost Ziggurat of Nephthys
In case you haven’t been following along, The Lost Ziggurat of Nephthys is a 2D platformer that focuses on a grapple hook mechanic that I developed for a game jam with some friends – The Megaman Game Jam. I’m constantly looking for ways to growth as a developer and learn from my mistakes, so IContinue reading “Postmortem: The Lost Ziggurat of Nephthys”
Megaman Game Jam Submissions
We made it to the end of the first ever Megaman Game Jam! Here are the games that were submitted. Shots in the Dark Created by Scout Clithero. Description: A game of social deduction. The Lost Ziggurat of Nephthys Created by Paul Kankiewicz (That’s me!). Description: A 2D roguelike platformer where the player explores aContinue reading “Megaman Game Jam Submissions”
Megaman Game Jam Progress: Week 2
With a second week down, the Megaman Game Jam is already halfway over. Here’s my progress so far: The main things I did this week were adding several traps, creating two levels (Plus a few temp ones), randomizing which level the player gets loaded into when they go through a door, and lots of tuning.Continue reading “Megaman Game Jam Progress: Week 2”
Megaman Game Jam Progress: Week 1
For the past week, I’ve been working hard on developing a game for the Megaman Game Jam. Here’s my progress after 1 week. I’ve mostly been working on the main platforming mechanics so far, so I hope to spend more time developing the game into something bigger in the coming weeks.
Megaman Game Jam
I have a lot of game developer friends. After talking to some of them, we decided it would be fun to challenge each other to a game jam. Thus was born the Megaman Game Jam! Rules:1) Time limit: 1 month. Game submissions are due on July 15, 2021 at 11:59 PM PST. This long timelineContinue reading “Megaman Game Jam”
Paul Kankiewicz 