For this week’s challenge I chose the maths game I wrote for the first game jam. This was a maths based game, design to help children learn their times tables and can be found here: Week 6: Game Jam Beta Release 0.1.x Ordinarily the avatars would have come first but just this once I’ll do…
As we mentioned in the last post in the Working with Agile series, stories are the main workhorses of Agile Development. Stoies are what we load into our sprints, stories are what the team works on and stories are what the team delivers once their work is complete. Delivering all the stories in an Epic…
Following on from my previous post which gave a brief overview of Agile Development, it’s now time to look at the Backlog in more detail. In particular I want to focus on the early part of the process where the development team builds the Agile Backlog from the items on the Product Roadmap. The product…
I wanted to give an overview of the Agile Development process I was trained in whilst working for Symbian Software. Because of the size of the organisation, this is more of an Enterprise Agile implementation but scales very well right down to a single team of 1. This is the first in a series of…
Controls Move — Arrow KeysJump — SpacebarFire — Left CTRL Release Notes Human population now get sick when exposed to virus and can be healed by the nurse with her vaccine. If she gets there too late, they will die. ‘Filled’ drain to stop characters falling in. Increased human population and added more virus clouds.…
Beta version: https://scaryblankpage.com/modules/development-practice/game-jam-2-beta-release/ Fall off the screen and you’re dead! Controls: Move left and right with the arrow keys Jump with Spacebar Fire with left CTRL Release Notes: Story [IGD-106] – Game Jam 2 (Falmouth) [IGD-115] – Create empty 3D project [IGD-116] – Jira-GitHub integration [IGD-123] – Create base Unity project [IGD-124] – Find Wikipedia…
Ideas generated during main game development phase of the Basalt project. Captured here so as not to be forgotten and may be implemented towards the latter stages of development Diseased human breath attack to spread virus Human states: Protected <– Normal –> Infected –> Diseased –> Dead Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash
Master Code Line is a scaleable strategy for using software control. It scales very well from a team size of one to a team of thousands. As the size of the development team working on a code base increases it becomes ever more important the whole team uses the same strategy to avoid some very…
When I started this blog, I needed to host it somewhere so I resurrected a dormant domain name I bought back in 2015. It was convenient, fitted with what I needed and more importantly available. Over the last few weeks I’ve really fallen in love with the name. It fits with where I am, where…
These goals supersede the ones created during week 5 of the course and are better aligned to my 2-year and 5-year goals. Goal 1 List Building Infrastructure Specific I have set up the ScaryBlankPage on-line presence, infrastructure and branding… Measurable …by building on my bog and establishing accounts with platforms and sites favoured by gamers…
