In April last year (2012) I participated in the 10-year anniversary Ludum Dare game jam and built a 48-hour competition game called Mineral Cities, for the community-selected theme “Tiny World”. Nearly 12 months later, I launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for building a game based on that prototype — also called Mineral Cities. [...]
I’m currently speaking at the GDC iOS Games in Day bootcamp, but just had approval through from Kickstarter and couldn’t resist launching. Go check it out: Mineral Cities, a minimalist city-builder/RTS hybrid.
A year ago I was crunching on Dead West. I was frantically adding features as quickly as possible in order to get it to a point that I was comfortable showing it, at GDC 2012. Problem was, I didn’t know what point that was. In fact, I still don’t: Dead West was a game without [...]
This has been on the GDC site for a while now, better get around to posting it – myself and Ray Wenderlich are running an iOS game dev bootcamp on the Tuesday of GDC 2013. We’ve got some greate speakers lined up includingMike Daley (Co-founder 71squared), Mike Schramm (Editor TUAW/Joystiq), Keith Shepherd (Co-founder ImangiStudios), Rod Strougo (iOS Developer & Instructor, Big Nerd Ranch & Prop Group) [...]
Latest version of our component architecture research (from September 2012) is now up and available at the 360idev videos site. From the presentation abstract: This talk is a follow up to my 2011 360idev talk on component architectures for iOS games. It includes specific in-the-field post mortems and performance analysis from the implementation of a [...]
First for the prototype archives: The Satanic Games. This was intended as something of slight on this debacle. Out of time for that, and clearly a silly idea in the first place given that I don’t think there’s much merit in seasonal stuff. What was it? A track-based racer, with the player pressing a sequence [...]
I just started blogging more general stuff here. Much of my earlier stuff is over at 36peas.com If you’ve come here from iOSDevUK 2012, links are below as promised. If you’re looking for a more general overview, I suggest you dig into some of the linked articles I published on the 36peas blog. I’ll write [...]
I am thoroughly enjoying the pixels on the new MacBook Pro. Can pretty much do all multi-monitor configurations I need/use/want on a Mac using the one screen. Only problem is this is using a combination of +/- 1.5x 1920×1200 (my default workable resolution for years — previous MBP was a 17″ and prior to that [...]
I originally posted this on the 36peas site, but some of it’s still pertinent at the time of writing (July 1st), so I’m including it here, with some additional comments… Games Crow by Sunside Inc Hadn’t heard much about this iOS title until last week. Great stuff. << I’m not so sure about this now — really [...]
Another older link post, from April — still applicable though: Games Home by Benjamin Rivers Hauntingly beautiful pixel horror adventure. Dyad by Shawn McGrath Didn’t quite get to see this at GDC. Wish I had. Lone Survivor by Jasper Byrne More pixel horror — this one’s out already though. << and well worth checking out :) Offspring Fling by [...]
Gareth is passionate about quality software and iterative development. He founded 36peas. He makes games. Follow me on twitter @garethjenkins, email me gareth@36peas.com or read more about me.