#Zen bound 2 no explanation software
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#Zen bound 2 no explanation series
#Zen bound 2 no explanation mac

Basically it was a game based on guessing the orientation of the iPhone using nothing but sound, and as you progressed through the game you had to remember longer sequences of orientations. One was super experimental - and thinking back on it would probably be something I will make again to enter into the Experimental Gameplay Project or some kinda Experimental Indie Festival thing. So, June 24th, 2009, I got my XCode and made a few really quick and scrappy prototypes of the games I wanted to do. I had a good few ideas of what to do for the first game, but it was important that it was going to use the Accelerometer - in fact - the XCode project of MiniSquadron to this day is called 'AccelerometerGame'! As for the idea, well I was playing around with having a game that made use of the Accelerometer in the iPhone, mostly because I found it fairly amusing.

#Zen bound 2 no explanation software

My office would be my room/living room/current position in space wherever it may be - I was just missing the actual software - the coding.

#Zen bound 2 no explanation mac

I already had an iPhone at this point, and I had also bought a cheapo second hand Mac off my mate for a really good price - so the 'hardware' was all sorted.

And it was a good time plan - because it meant I had to execute things *immediately*. Needless to say, things changed - but at that time, that had been the plan. That's right, this project was initially budgeted for Four Weeks. The iPhone at the time suited this mode of thinking - the project itself was to be nothing too complicated, nothing too involved, and the project from start to finish should take no longer than 4 weeks. The Plan was derived from the fact that I would like to try and realise an ambition to do a little game of my own, that I could find fun in, and that I could then distribute to as many people as I could who also might find it fun. But it ended - and I needed to execute The Plan. I had really enjoyed my time there - great people, great location, StreetFighter 4 had just come out and was getting some proper bo sessions at lunchtime. So it was June 23rd, 2009, the last day of my contract with Sony London. You can then take this recipe and mock me at will - this article will be in N parts because I'll no doubt get bored of writing it all in one go.

#Zen bound 2 no explanation code

So instead I'm gonna tell the story of how I went from Zero Code to MiniSquadron The Game in 5 months (and less if you had artists that didn't have to fix giant pendulums hoho). And by consolidate I mean try to become a normal part of society again and 'go outside'.Д«ut it's cold outside.

Now That MiniSquadron is in Submission (that sounds a bit like it's gone into relapse or something), I find myself with a bit of time to consolidate. Here is one of the first drafts of Level 1, which would eventually become 'Duck Island' (click through for larger): This decision only came about when I saw the potential that this game could be from looking at the art that I received. I like to call it going 'half fat', with 'full fat' basically spending a year to make. As it stands, I was of the opinion that this was a fun enough concept to make into a 'half fat' game that deserved at least 3 months of my time. One of the other things I decided to do about now is to basically give the game more of a proper structure and deciding on the final scope of it. And it was at this time that I went to show Dave Ferner and who then thought he could do some pretty art to make this game look 'a bit better' (how could it possibly be better than what it is already?).

#Zen bound 2 no explanation series

Right - last time in this sporadic series I had just finished making the 4 week MiniSquadron demo with the red scissors versus the yellow scissors, with you as the commanding Magenta Scissor (snigger - b3ta reference).