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A new slot machine game I programmed for our Facebook game came out last week. It’s based on...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:54:35 -0500

A new slot machine game I programmed for our Facebook game came out last week. It’s based on Bruce Lee and it’s available for purchase as a premium slot in our Jackpot Party Casino game for $15.

Is there an active OUYA development forum? All the sites I’m finding are only getting a couple...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:37:18 -0400

Is there an active OUYA development forum? All the sites I’m finding are only getting a couple posts every now and then and seem to have hardly any active users…

Talking about working in the game design industry to the UNI Computer Science Club tomorrow after...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:43:50 -0400

Talking about working in the game design industry to the UNI Computer Science Club tomorrow after work. Not sure what all I’m going to say, luckily I think it’s mainly going to be Q&A and I’ve got someone from the marketing team going with me.

Got a little bit more information today on getting my hands on an OUYA dev kit before the spring release. So that’s good news. I’ll probably be doing a bit of indie development tonight in addition to finishing up some stuff for work and writing a program to handle playlists, song libraries, and music requests for a networked stereo system in the house I’m sharing with a few friends.

Staying busy at work. Sounds like I’m moving to the social team soon, nothing new though...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:18:11 -0400

Staying busy at work. Sounds like I’m moving to the social team soon, nothing new though seeing how that’s all I’ve done the past few months anyways. We’ve been hiring a bunch of new people lately so the teams are getting restructured a bit. This week we had two new artists and a programmer start, last week we had a programmer start, next week we have another programmer starting, and on Thursday I’m helping interview another potential programmer. Hopefully with all of these additional people crunch time won’t end up being 70+ hours in a week anymore…

I’ve been slacking off on my work with the OUYA projects and stuff I was doing for the Ludum Dare contest. XCOM and Borderlands 2 have both been beat now though so my free time can once again be spent coding.

Working on a couple things for the LudumDare October Challenge but as soon as that’s finished...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:02:04 -0400

Working on a couple things for the LudumDare October Challenge but as soon as that’s finished I plan on beginning work on a launch title or two for the OUYA game console release in April 2013. I’m planning on porting some previous titles for it as well as an original project with console gaming specifically in mind during development. Unfortunately I was unable to get my hands on one of the devkit preorders on Kickstarter but I’m hoping with their SDK release in December I’ll still be able to develop the OUYA specific functionality. Also, another game I did work on, Zeus II, is now available for purchase from several retail stores including Best Buy, Walmart, and Target.

I didn’t really do much work on this game as I was busy with other projects, but my name is in...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:31:34 -0400

I didn’t really do much work on this game as I was busy with other projects, but my name is in the opening credits, so you should buy it…

http://www.phantomefx.com/games/view/1035

Haven’t updated in awhile but I’m doing Ludum Dare again next weekend so I’m sure...

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:30:34 -0400

Haven’t updated in awhile but I’m doing Ludum Dare again next weekend so I’m sure there will be some posts while I’m working on that. I’ve been staying busy with work and we launched a new Facebook game awhile back that I did a lot of the programming for. It’s a slot machine game based on content from WMS Gaming. You can check it out at http://apps.facebook.com/jackpotpartycasino and play some games that are found on the floors at many casinos. It’s been named one of the top 10 social casinos despite having only recently launched.

WMS recently acquired Phantom EFX so I now work at Williams Interactive, though not much changed in relation to what I do at work. We’re hiring now so if you’re a programmer or artist interested in working in the game design industry you should check this out… http://www.phantomefx.com/posts/view/135

Haven’t done many updates recently. I’ve been busy with some big projects at work but...

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:24:32 -0400

Haven’t done many updates recently. I’ve been busy with some big projects at work but after next week one of my biggest deadlines will have passed so I’m planning on participating in the miniLD game design comp the weekend of the 16th. (http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/06/05/minild-35-dare/)

Here’s my intro post to the #LD48 competition for this...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:22:50 -0400

Here’s my intro post to the #LD48 competition for this weekend:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/04/20/were-in-34/

Round 4 of Ludum Dare theme voting had a couple time travel based suggestions. If one of those wins...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:47:33 -0400

Round 4 of Ludum Dare theme voting had a couple time travel based suggestions. If one of those wins I’m doing a “Back To The Future” game for sure…

I’ll be participating in Ludum Dare 23 this weekend, but I’ll also be partying in Ames...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:43:00 -0400

I’ll be participating in Ludum Dare 23 this weekend, but I’ll also be partying in Ames for VEISHEA so I’m not sure how well this game will end up turning out… My plan is to aim for some easy goals because I know I want a finished product and it’s much easier to add to it if I finish early instead of not having time to finish completely. Kiki Snell is helping me out with art so we’ll be doing the group jam instead of the individual competition. I’m hoping some ridiculous theme gets chosen, my favorites so have have been the few about parallel universes though I’m not sure what I would do for those if one was chosen. Another theme in the running is “1800’s Technology” and I think that would be a lot of fun too. My theme suggestion of “Obese Space Explorers” didn’t make it to the theme voting unfortunately…

So I just realized I never ended up typing out a development log for the previous project I worked...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:55:33 -0400

So I just realized I never ended up typing out a development log for the previous project I worked on, but now that it’s been a week I probably won’t ever get around to it. Maybe next time.

This past weekend I release a college drinking game for Android. There is a paid version as well as a free version and you can find them here…
PAID:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ElzingaMedia.CircleOfDrunk
FREE:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ElzingaMedia.CircleOfDrunkFREE

Here’s the link to me #MolyJam game from this past...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:56:17 -0400

Here’s the link to me #MolyJam game from this past weekend:
http://www.whatwouldmolydeux.com/display.php?GameID=128

It’s also available to download on the Google Play market for Android here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ElzingaMedia.SonShine

The Android build has been having some issues though and despite resigning the package multiple times it’s still giving errors when you try to install it. I’m hoping to fix that tonight and do a write-up over how development went sometime this week.

MolyJam is this weekend! I’ve chosen the tweet I’m planning on using and I have a rough...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:11:00 -0400

MolyJam is this weekend! I’ve chosen the tweet I’m planning on using and I have a rough idea of what I want to do, but seeing how it’s a game jam I don’t want to put too much thought into it until the competition actually beings. I’ll be developing it in Unity and plan on making a downloadable version, streamed web version, and hopefully an Android version for phones and tablets. Kiki Snell will be doing the art for the project and for sound I’m hoping to either find someone who wants to help out or one of us will just end up doing something simple for it.

Unity3D Mobile Basic is free until April 8th. If you ever plan on using Unity I would highly...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:59:40 -0400

Unity3D Mobile Basic is free until April 8th. If you ever plan on using Unity I would highly recommend you download it now before the price jumps back up to $800…

http://unity3d.com/mobile/

Been pretty busy with work and haven’t done much indie programming since the miniLD contest...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:48:47 -0500

Been pretty busy with work and haven’t done much indie programming since the miniLD contest the other week. I got a 3-way tie for 11th place, but I still had a good time and made a few fun games. I’ve been busy playing Mass Effect 3 now but I’m hoping to do a bit of work on some side projects this coming weekend.

Best game I’ve done yet for this contest…Download...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:29:49 -0500

Best game I’ve done yet for this contest…
Download and play it from http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/2801

My brother, Luke, did the art for this one. It’s up on the...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:16:23 -0500

My brother, Luke, did the art for this one. It’s up on the PirateKart site at http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/2773 for downloading and playing it. I finished up the alpha build for my ninth game so I only have one left to do!

Game #8 is done, 2 more to go and I still have almost 8 hours. Looks like I’ll make my goal!

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:05:29 -0500

Game #8 is done, 2 more to go and I still have almost 8 hours. Looks like I’ll make my goal!

I got the finished art for one of the games back and I finished...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:44:15 -0500

I got the finished art for one of the games back and I finished up the placeholder version of another. Only three games to go!