Mars is a visceral side-scroller with an emphasis on violence. This project is an attempt to explore gamer psychology and habit to tell...

I planned only to write these Slice of Life blogs once every other month or so, but I thought I'd share my experience with grappling with...

I'm a huge fan of Blizzard and Collectible Card Games. Hearthstone is Blizzard's successful exploration of this genre. I've been working...

Hello, my name is Bretton Hamilton. I'm an experience designer with games being my medium of choice. I am a strong believer in throwing...

The Adventure Pals is now on Kickstarter! The Adventure Pals is an epic adventure platformer fuelled by imagination. Enter a gorgeous and...

Working on Dungeon Sandwich has been an absolute adventure from start to finish. Kongregate has been a pleasure to work with, and it's...

In the game industry, like most creative industries, it is common knowledge that a good portfolio, proper networking, and passion are...

This week I've been crunching over all that goes bump in the dark! What is a dungeon that isn't infested by monsters? Behold! Eyebat This...

We are officially two weeks deep into Dungeon Sandwich, and we’re right on schedule! The character is fully animated and can run around...

This week the Quality Assurance cycle ends for our first batch of testers. Overall it was a success! In the beginning, we had a team of...

It took several weeks of discussion with John, our contact from Kongregate, for us to settle on a game direction that we could all...

As mentioned in one of my previous posts, I was brought on-board the Adventure Pals project several months back to do some level design...

Overview: This past weekend was a Game Jam at the Northern Sydney Institute. As this was my 18th Game Jam in the past three year period I...

A few weeks ago I was given the opportunity to step up as QA Lead for Super Adventure Pals. Part of this entailed building a QA...

Part of TÖKEN's design overhaul has led us to need a variety of characters. I'll spare the reasoning and explanation for this for another...

For the past several months I've had a few concepts for game ideas in mind. Dungeon Sandwich initially developed into a vague idea when I...

When Halfbrick announced that it had laid off its last two designers, with no intention of replacing them, I feared that the gesture...

TÖKEN was born one night in mid-August. By late September, a team had been assembled and development had begun. My role on the project...

Let me preface this information by saying that I have been developing and analyzing indie games for the past several years. I really went...

Origin: Chess is a game that has been played for many hundreds of years. The rules of chess are often always the same, manipulate pieces...