Game development
Finding the right tools for the job – or, The Never-Ending Story, Part II
M. J. Magee - Monday, the 22nd of August, 2016
When I first decided to build tools to help manage Cuthbert, I knew I didn’t want to get distracted from developing the actual game for too long. I wanted to build something quickly, then get back to the fun bit.…
Continue readingA small change of plan. Teeny. Teensy even. Fine, ginormous.
M. J. Magee - Friday, the 17th of June, 2016
Well, it’s June and, so far, 2016 has proven to be… challenging.
First, my flat flooded with poo and I had to frantically find another place to live. That wasn’t the best start to the year. Then I got engaged and started planning a wedding with my incredible (and incredibly patient) partner Sam.…
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M. J. Magee - Tuesday, the 29th of March, 2016
Last night, as I subjugated my long-suffering partner Sam to yet another long, sufferable lecture about building Cuthbert – just covering the usual points, what a ridiculously big game it is, how I don’t think I’m doing it well enough, how I don’t know how I can do it better, why it’s important that he tells me it’s all going to be okay every four minutes, that kind of thing – he made a truly fantastic point.…
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Now that we’ve – more or less – moved into our new flat (complete with floors! And electricity!), I’m managing to scrounge some time back from frantically organising a house move to… well, it’s more frantic organising, really, but less of my furniture is being scratched this time.…
Continue readingCuthbert: a (bit of a) year in review
M. J. Magee - Saturday, the 2nd of January, 2016
Well, it’s the New Year, the time when – across the world – people look back at the past year and work out what went well, what could have gone well-er, what they want to improve and change in the year to come.…
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It’s Christmas and – as per the law – I have been overindulging in mince pies and underindulging in everything else.
The production of Cuthbert has slowed the past few weeks; my free time has been taken up visiting family and acting as a guinea pig for my five year old niece’s, erm, enthusiastic beautician work.…
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Aside from wanting to invest some money into Cuthbert so I’d have the motivation to finish it, even though Netflix has five seasons of Once Upon a Time waiting for me, wondering where I am, my biggest reason for wanting the inimitable L.…
Continue readingIt’ll be quick, I said, done in a jiffy, I said…
M. J. Magee - Sunday, the 25th of October, 2015
After the realisation that I ought to rename the character of ‘the salesman’, given he doesn’t ever sell you anything, I went through a bit of a crisis. I trawled through thesauruses. I surveyed people for synonyms. I looked up official industry jargon from exhibitions, call centres, and pyramid schemes.…
Continue readingThe best laid plans of programmers and artists
M. J. Magee - Saturday, the 17th of October, 2015
There’s a saying about the best laid plans… Hmm, maybe I should have planned this post better and googled it.
L. Whyte and I decided at the beginning of this (overwhelmingly large) project that she’d create her (overwhelmingly beautiful) artwork in vectors and pass it on to me in a scalable vector graphic (SVG) format, which can be scaled up and down to fit any screen size or device without losing image quality.…
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