Started working on Ember Knights and Rivals of Aether I started working on Ember Knights and Rivals of Aether as of last week!! The timing is not ideal because I have to work on both projects at the same time. Meaning, I have to work upwards of 50 hours a Read more…
DOWNLOAD Bean Guys by jasontomlee, Cake~, failpositive, JustFredrik, ViktorRKraus GMTK 2021- Bean Guys Post mortem This is our (The Cool Kids Gang) submission to the GMTK 2021 Game Jam! The theme was “Joined Together” It is a bullet hell platformer where you assimilate with body parts to become stronger. Think Read more…
Table of Contents Thoughts Lets talk about the plans for LearnIndie & how they’ve changed over time. So from the very start, I wanted to monetize in two ways.The first being long-term products that have content & educational material tied to them.The second being a subscription model that provides more Read more…
Table of Contents You are a biproduct of your environment Lets talk about a chapter from the book, “The Magic of Thinking BIG” by David J. Schwartz. It is a topic that hits home- I’m hoping it shifts your perspective towards a more positive one! In the chapter Manage Read more…
Table of Contents Learning opens up doors Ill be talking about a book Im reading at the moment, “The Science of Accelerated Learning” by Peter Hollins. It’s a very short read (sub 200 pages)- I highly recommend it! Learning is the foundation to… everything really. People who don’t learn stay Read more…
Table of Contents Documenting your progress Back in 2016 I started a Twitter account. It was the first time Ive ever browsed #pixelart #gamedev Twitter and the first time Ive ever shared anything Ive created. To be inspired by all the talented people was one thing, but to share something Read more…
Its important to place myself in the shoes of my audience, or a younger Jason when designing this website. How can I make everything convenient for the audience? I believe the answer is is corner-stone pages with relevant solutions tied to them. They’re essentially dense articles that are made up Read more…
A fellow game-dev contacted me for help regarding pixel-art. He asks: Im thinking about that why does my game graphics seem dirty sometimes? One possible reason maybe that my game has too low resolutions, and at same time, we add too much ‘particles’. On the surface, it seems like a Read more…
Ive started reading this book, “Never Split The Difference” by Chris Voss. And right from the get go, there was a passage that spoke so much truth: “Our techniques were the products of experimental learning; they were developed by agents in the field, negotiating through crisis and sharing the stories Read more…
As a creative person, this thought lingers on my mind all the time. How can someone like me, who is just like many others, capable of providing insane value to a niche market? Can’t many others do the same thing? Yes. There are many people like you who can do Read more…
