I’m just gonna be honest: my responsibilities lately have kept me busy. The last week of November looks especially full. So what am I saying? I’m debating on what to do about my “one game a month” thing for November.…

For awhile now, I’ve wanted to do something to highlight different games I’ve come across. Game design can be challenging and rough; often the work can be large with a payoff that is small. Even if you bring something above par to…

Well, we’re about half-way through November, so it may be time to start more seriously considering the scope of my current project if I haven’t already. I did some planning mixed with charging headlong into the thick of it, and…

So my fellow game devs (and anyone else who’s reading), have you ever tried to balance a strategy game with multiple equips? Aye. I knew it was going to be something, and that’s why I was fighting with myself in…

This seems to come up with some frequency on the Stencyl forums. The first assumption that is typically made is to make this “death” code a part of the player actor or whichever actor is being killed. Sometimes this can…

OK, I’m a little pumped about getting back into my Python programming and gaming. Therefore, you get another quick update! So in short, I have basic defensive and offensive stats up and running, as well as a special “Duel” class…

Well, my last attempt to get a game going was for the November MiniLD. It failed; I tried to go back to Stencyl for one more “quick hacked-together game”, but it quickly lost my attention. Not manipulating the underlying code……

1.) Check that all your tile dimensions match up First, make sure when you import the tile image sheet into Stencyl that you set the dimensions accordingly. Then, when you create a new scene, make sure the scene tile dimensions…