Game Maker Planet

I’m becoming somewhat pessimistic about the game industry. [Warning: these thoughts are a bit fuzzy.] Here’s what is going through my mind:

• The demand for games has gone up dramatically in the past few years. Wii, Steam, XBLA, mobile, browser, tablet, and social games have brought in lots of new players.
• High profile successes like Farmville, Angry Birds, and Minecraft have made more people interesting in making games.
• New platforms and the rise of...

Every few years I find a new language/platform for my experiments. I’d like to share them on the web, so I (mostly) limit myself to things that run in the browser. In the 1990s I used Java. In 2004, I started looking at Flash, but continued using Java. With help from Troy Gilbert, I switched to Flash in 2006, using the Motion-Twin Flash...

Some of you have sent me feedback on my polygon map generation blog post series (part 1, part 2, part 3) and questions about how it could be used in your own projects. Here are some thoughts on how to extend the map generator:

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