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Year in Review : 2018

ThoughtsJanuary 24, 201911Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Year 2018 was indeed quite adventurous and twists and turns. Only FOUR blog posts. Mostly about game releases. Bigger things learned the hard way, even though it was always just before your eyes. - who else Moving to Android Development (& Web too) Slowed down the games development for a bit. Why ? And moved…

Getting Started with Openframeworks with Visual Studio 2015

Devlog, Game Design, Games, My Games, ThoughtsMarch 14, 20178Views 0Likes 0Comments

Openframeworks is an awesome framework. Heard about Openframeworks on Super Hexagon credits. Decided to try it out with Visual Studio 2015. Extracted the Openframeworks to c drive. Using the Project Generator inside it, created a test app. Open that in the visual studio 2015 and hit compile. Problem begins. Openframeworks is not compiling in visual studio 2015.…

TODO Lists : In Mind & in Reality

Random, ThoughtsAugust 6, 201610Views 0Likes 0Comments

At any given time, I think, people will usually have a list of tasks in mind to be completed in near future. We'll I'm not sure about others, but I do have a lot todo stuffs in my mind. The question of whether or not this todo lists gets done, is what this blog post…

Few Selected Titles of IGF 2016

Games, ThoughtsNovember 10, 20157Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've been scrolling through the IGF 2016 entries and found some interesting titles (based on my tastes and biases, obviously). Hope it helps you saves time if you're lazy to scroll through them all. 1. Linus A minimalistic line-former (moving through lines) with some puzzle elements and Interesting gameplay. Looks fabulous. Watch Trailer 2. Blackhole A great…

From flash to the world of Unity Games

Thoughts, UnityOctober 20, 201512Views 0Likes 1Comment

Flash is dead. Or so it has been rumored for a couple of years and still ongoing (See this Discussion here). But I still do things in flash. I think it's still a better game making tool than many other alternatives. Starling + Flash also makes an awesome combination for Android, iOS and GPU powered web games. High Speed Road cross Flash…

Gamedev tips : Getting Things Done

Game Design, ThoughtsMay 2, 20158Views 0Likes 0Comments

So you have this idea you've been planning in your head for so long, talking about it to your friends like 'I've been thinking about making a cool game, or shooting a short film, writing on the blog, updating a game, buying a book' etc etc but never really done anything about it. It'll remain that way unless…

Distractions : Will be back after sometime !

ThoughtsFebruary 28, 20156Views 0Likes 0Comments

I do not wonder, that I was distracted at least 20+ times while writing this (or even thinking about writing this). This is a post about my thoughts on this ambiguous phenomenon of distraction. This post doesn't give you any how to's or solutions to avoid it (not directly of course, because i don't know about workable…

Back to Full time work, part time indie

ThoughtsJanuary 3, 20158Views 0Likes 0Comments

2014 : year at a glance 2014 has been a productive and exhaustive year. Made a lot of stuffs in a very short time. Done some interesting freelance game design works, learned about Android app development, eventually got into android game development, moved my dev from home to a small office, left freelance to try full-time indie…

Sweet Dreamz – Post inception story thread

ThoughtsDecember 3, 201411Views 0Likes 0Comments

A short story (a sequel to inception or sort of) written to make a film out of it (someday). Inspired by concepts in inception. "Late back in 2000's the humans still consider dreams to be mysterious, a key to access the unconscious. The military developed the program of shared dreaming concept introduced to instill the aggressiveness…

101 Best game trailers

Games, ThoughtsNovember 29, 20146Views 0Likes 0Comments

Being a big fan of game trailers (Also Movie & even product ads too), i always wanted to make a list of best game trailers i watched & saved on my hard disk. Game trailers differs a lot in variety than compared to movie trailers, i think. Recently released cinematic trailers show impressive production quality & a…

Cut it : release thoughts

ThoughtsNovember 20, 20149Views 0Likes 0Comments

I'm equally relieved and anxious in finishing up the game which I've been working on for almost a year now (well not completely, but in between 5-6 other games ;) ). If you're a Game developer or movie creator you know that feeling. A lot of thoughts are going through my head right now, a mixture…

Cut it Android : Features Preview

Game Design, ThoughtsNovember 13, 20149Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've been working on and off on the expanded, re-engineered and enhanced Android version of the game Cut-it, which i already did as an online game. So is it going to be same as the old one. If not what are the extra features and additions. This post is an answer to that. (PS:This post has…