Blightmare

Hello everyone!  Welcome back to another instalment of the Blightmare Dev Blog!  I hope you’re staying safe and sane out there as we make our way through these crazy times.  Development on Blightmare has slowed a bit unfortunately as we all try to get a handle the new normal.  But that’s enough of that for Continue Reading

Hello and welcome to another installment of the Blightmare Dev Blog!  Before we jump in, I want to say that all of us here on the Blightmare team wish you health and safety in this time of great uncertainty.  We hope that these blogs can do a little bit to change the subject and offer Continue Reading

Hello! I’m Tom, one of the programmers on Blightmare, and today I will give you a very quick overview of how we build the terrain for our Blightmare levels. The terrain is actually pretty simple.  We start out with an empty rectangular grid, and the level designers can fill in certain grid squares with terrain Continue Reading

Hello and welcome to another installment of the Blightmare Dev Blog!  Today I’m going to show a quick debugging session to demonstrate how useful visualizing a problem can be. Yesterday at our weekly meeting, Nick the level designer, mentioned that there was something funky going on with our caterpillars.  I asked for a little more Continue Reading