Dev-log #16: My Merry Musical Months
Hello there once again! The past few months of my game development journey have had quite the musical theme to them. I’m trying to write more dev-logs, so it seemed like a good topic to discuss. I mention a lot…
Hello there once again! The past few months of my game development journey have had quite the musical theme to them. I’m trying to write more dev-logs, so it seemed like a good topic to discuss. I mention a lot…
Hello everyone!About a year ago, I participated in the Game Maker’s Toolkit Game Jam which was my first game jam experience. It was quite the journey and you can read all about it in this dev-log. I learned a lot, and…
Happy New Year everybody!It is once again that time for another dev-log. The progress on Project Phases has been going very well. Though it is taking quite a bit of time, the battle system is getting closer and closer to…
Hey there everyone! It’s time for another dev-log, this time I’m going to go over some progress updates for Update 10. It has been coming along well, but there is still plenty of work to do before it is finished.…
Hello everyone!I recently participated in the Game Maker’s Toolkit Game Jam 2021 and I thought I would write a dev-log to reflect on my experience. This is the first game jam I’ve ever done and I have a lot of…
Hello everybody! Welcome to Update 9 of Project Phases. This is the culmination of over a year of work and like always this is the biggest update yet! Seriously, after I finished writing this, the page count was almost 20…
Hello everybody! Welcome back to another dev-log. This is the first website post of 2020… almost 5 months in….hm…. … Anyways! Over the past few months I have been working primarily on the overworld and making as fleshed out as…
Hey everyone! This is the tenth dev-log on this website, which is honestly a bit crazy. I’ve had this website for 2+ years, and I’m happy to still be doing stuff on it. Thank you for continuing to read these…
Welcome everyone to Update 8 of Project Phases. We are getting closer and closer to the demo release that will hopefully be out by the end of this year. I have the update video up above for you to watch.…
Hey everyone! Anyone who has been paying attention to my Twitter would have noticed I have posted a lot about the Player Future Arrow. In this dev-log, I hope to explain what that is and what it can add to the…
Hey everyone! A little while ago, I made a dev-log about the new icons I made for Phases. You can check out the original post here. Basically, anything that was previously displayed by text has been switch to an icon. However,…
Hello everyone! Today I have a more art-based dev-log. I am going to talk about the new icons, the process of making them, and the few interesting problems that popped up. Let me start by explaining what I mean by…
Hello everyone, welcome back to another dev-log. Today we will talk about the new shop system and other features that go along with it. We will also go over some new items to buy at the shop. I also want…
Hello again everyone, it’s been awhile. I apologize for the long wait, but I am back with some updates to the game. We have some new menus in the overworld and some bug fixes in the battle system. First, the…
Update 7 added one of my favorite new features to the game, speed. It does exactly what it sounds like it does, it determines how fast you move along the timeline. However, ever since its addition to the game, speed…
I am happy to say that (for the most part) the inventory system is done for now! Update 7 was based all around the inventory system and while it worked well, I still needed some refining to do. The biggest…
Update 7 of Project Phases was a huge update. I managed to add lots of new systems involving the inventory, stats and speed. I also refined many of the mechanics already in the game to make them work better and…
The Tales series is a long-running franchise developed by Bandai Namco. Previous entries include Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Vesperia, and this game’s “sequel”, Tales of Zestiria. I’ve never had the chance to play a Tales game until now. Berseria has been…
Note from the future: Looking over this again, I’m not a huge fan of this post. It’s kind of random and is about a very minor inconvenience that I blow out of proportion. Part of that is intentional for comedic…
I must admit, this title is a bit of a lie. This is my third time playing Valkyria Chronicles, starting from the beginning to see if the game will finally click for me. For some reason, I’ve never been able to…