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Panda Hell Update #8: Minimum Lovable Product
The problem I see with games versus other types of software is that in games having a Minimum Viable Product does not mean much. While in other type of software you may have a working solution to a problem that’s normally enough to get a prototype rolling, and iterate on customer feedback, with gaming has…
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Panda Hell update #7: Procedural level generation is live!
Before going deeper into the new features I have added this week, here’s a quick video of the current status (captions pointing some features): Procedural generation script Last week I decided to take a detour in the current development and move from a random generated level system to a procedural generated one. I really believed…
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First 100 hours breakthrough
Well well, definitely is hard to calculate how much time a project will take, and even harder if it’s your first project. I’ve just realized that today I break through the first 100 hours in Panda Hell,that’s an average of 2.5h daily for the last 6 weeks, since I started the project. When I initially…
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Panda Hell update #6: Design decisions and moving to procedural level generation
Game play experience completed This week I’ve been working in making the game play a complete experience and get a full-game feel, where you start a game, you go through the levels, you encounter the final boss and you finish the game. Which leaded to some design issues (more below), let’s start! – Added a…
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Panda Hell update #5: Moving to Bangkok, destructible terrain, and new weapons.
Adding new features and mechanics: This week was a little tricky to dedicate time to the game as I was flying back from Spain to Bangkok, working, and to top it up there was an air traffic strike which didn’t make things easier. After around 48 hours I landed in Bangkok and looked around for…
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Weekly update #4 – Say hi to “Panda Hell”, fixing bugs, and the burnout itch
Last week was all about fixing core bugs, polish roughness, add art and start to plan a soft launch ( maybe using itch.io refinery, which I recently discovered),which more or less accomplished, but as I have limited time to work on this I couldn’t advance as much as I wanted. However I spent 70% of…