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You’re not at GDC, and that’s okay
This week it’s GDC week, the “largest professional game developers conference” where the industry comes together to talk about games, games and games. I’m sure [..] read more
Squeezing out the final polish on Meganoid
I’ve been hard at work on polishing the gameplay. There are now proper level-templates used for every world, so there is a real sense of progress [..] read more
How to complete and release that damn game
In the feedback I got on the first part of this series, a few people asked me to do a blog on how I pick, [..] read more
Twitch: Pixels and code for a stargate !
I booted up the old Twitch.tv channel again this week, doing some game-testing and pixel-pushing. For more live streaming visit the channel here: Twitch.tv/orangepascal
All games should be roguelike-likes-lite-games!
Let’s not get into a fight: I’m not here to say what exactly a rogue-like is or isn’t.. but some elements of “rogue likes” should [..] read more
How to fill your days as full time indie
This is the first one of a series of articles I plan on posting about “the other side” of game development. Not just the “technical [..] read more
Meganoid is alive
So another week with all my time put into the Meganoid reboot (still thinking about the name.. Meganoid reboot.. Meganoid 2017.. not sure yet). Right [..] read more
Meganoid returns
Surprise! and not just for you, also for me! Creating a new game in the Meganoid universe has been an itch for a while now. I [..] read more
Teaser trailer
We’re getting closer and closer! The last couple of weeks I’ve been tweaking a bunch of stuff to juice the game up a bit more. [..] read more
The final weeks
Another week of ups and downs on Ashworld, luckily ending in a great big up. I have a very strange rule that says: you should be [..] read more
2016
We’re nearing the end of 2016, so it’s a nice time to make a little review of the year from the Orangepixel perspective. Games of 2016 First thing: [..] read more
It’s called ASHWORLD
There you go! I finally settled on a name for this project. I’ve been calling it “Ragelaw” for some time now, but people poked at me [..] read more
Overdue status update
Missions, missions and more missions… and how was your day? I seriously learned a lot during the development on this game, tackling the mission [..] read more
Breezing through the project
It’s taken a long time to get to this point, but it feels like Ragelaw is finally moving in the right direction. Still far from [..] read more
Head meet desk
There are a lot of positive things to be said about creating games in a genre you don’t know or even like. Sadly there are also a [..] read more
Vacation and back!
After a nice little vacation during one of the hottest weeks in the Netherlands, I’m back on the job! The video up there shows the [..] read more
Gunslugs HTML5 opensourced
I decided to put up another free source-code over on the Orangepixel Bitbucket, this time not a simple half-baked Jam game, but a full commercial game: [..] read more
Four minutes of gameplay
A lot of tinkering with the prototype, and it’s starting to pay off. This is slowly looking like a playable game, and there is enough [..] read more
Mad Max prototype
For those who follow me on twitter, you’ve already seen the stuff I’ve been prototyping with the many GIF’s I’ve been spamming. It was a [..] read more
Metroidvania anyone?
Hey there! So after the Heroes of Loot 2 release and me pushing a bunch of updates, I’ve also taken some time off and just [..] read more
Samsung freezin’ Audio problems
Samsung, you suck. Let me explain that! For my last two games, Space Grunts and Heroes of Loot 2, I developed the game as much for [..] read more
Launch buttons
While I’m pushing version 1.1.0 of Heroes of Loot 2 to all the platforms, I figured it was about time to post something new up [..] read more
Ending the weeks of balancing
I think I wrote about this a couple of times with other game releases before, but at some point in game development everything (should) click [..] read more
Procedural adventures in Heroes of Loot 2
I’ve been writing procedural level generators for a few years now, from the very simple levels in Gunslugs 1, flat ground area’s with platforms scattered above [..] read more
Heroes of Loot 2 is LIVE (Early Access)
It’s live!!! Heroes of Loot 2 can now be downloaded on Steam Early Access. The next few weeks I’ll be looking at feedback, adding the [..] read more
Design decisions
The last few days I’ve been doing some thinking and made a tough decision towards the core gameplay of Heroes of Loot 2. Which is funny [..] read more
Almost ready to ask for your money
(This blog will talk randomly about various things, so I will also randomly place some cool Heroes of Loot 2 screenshots in it just to [..] read more
Mainly Making Marketing Materials
Where is all the time flying to? Is somebody stealing it? damn it! The first week of April gone with the wind.. This week I put [..] read more
Gameplay and Twitch Streaming
I uploaded a new developer video this week. This time it’s just a pure gameplay video, showing 15 minutes of some random dungeons. Besides that [..] read more
April is coming
April is coming! the game is not done! PANIC! … or don’t.. The last few weeks I had some “radio silence” as I was working on [..] read more
