It’s really quite incredible to see how much your whole project has changed in a short amount of time when you’re doing some refactoring.
For example, this is how the game looked before I started moving it into a swizzy new framework:
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Game design
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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It’s Sunday night and I’m just home from one of Joy Swift’s Original Murder Mystery Weekends – delightful, deathful, and a real mouthful.
With a stressful, finish-all-of-the-things! week at work followed by a stressful, solve-all-the-mysteries! weekend away from my laptop, Cuthbert didn’t get very much love this week, and I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about.…
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M. J. Magee - Saturday, the 3rd of October, 2015
In fairy tales, characters rarely have names. Who they are isn’t as important as what they are – jealous step-mothers, kind-hearted wives of ogres, dim-witted butter-under-their-hat-wearers…
That’s what drives the story to its end.
Its inevitable, gory, eyes-gouged-out-by-birds end.
Spoiler: every single fairy tale ever written.…
Combat systems: a horror story
M. J. Magee - Friday, the 25th of September, 2015
I knew, when I first began plotting out Cuthbert, that I wanted to have a strong combat system. It made sense for the story: in a game where you can royally peeve people off to the point where they won’t help you, it makes sense that they might try and hurt you.…
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When I’m working on something like the front-end design of the game – something that doesn’t require I sit hunched over my laptop with my head clutched in my hands, muttering, ‘Why? Why?’, or gently weeping – I like to put on some TV as background noise.…
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M. J. Magee - Saturday, the 5th of September, 2015
I think one of my biggest problems in building this game is not having a project manager behind me, tapping her foot, asking why I’ve been writing daft jokes about mani pedis when there’s planning and coding and unmanicured work to be done.…
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M. J. Magee - Monday, the 31st of August, 2015
The Adventures of Cuthbert Tattersall is the most anticipated game of 2017. By me. No one else knows about it. Or – knew about it. I guess you know about it now.
Gosh, the expectant audience for this whole project just doubled, that’s a bit unnerving.…
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