A Tale of Two Refactors: Part 1
Chris
- Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020
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Hello everyone and welcome back to the Blightmare development blog. Today I’m going to begin a series of posts that will describe why we rewrote most of the logic for the game twice and what we learned along the way. I don’t know how many parts this will end up being, but hopefully it’s interesting! Continue Reading
Optimizing for Garbage Day (Part 1)
Chris
- Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
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Hello! Welcome back to another installation of the Blightmare Development Blog. It’s garbage day in my neighbourhood today which ties in nicely with this two part topic. I was working on ironing out some bugs that we had found while doing some playtesting and I noticed another problem. Have a look: As you can Continue Reading
Upgrading is Hard
Chris
- Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
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Hello everyone! Welcome back to another Blightmare dev blog! Today is going to be pretty short for reasons that I’ll get into in a little bit. Anyway, I hope you all are staying as safe as possible and making the best out of this unfortunate situation. The topic today is upgrades. Blightmare uses a few Continue Reading
Do or Undo, there is no other way
Chris
- Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
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Hello and welcome to another installment of the Blightmare development blog! I will be continuing our discussion of the Editor today by taking a look at one of those features that most people don’t notice unless it’s missing: Undo/Redo. Pretty much any application that stores and displays input from a user will need the ability Continue Reading
Introduction to the Editor
Tom
- Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
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Tom here for another article on the development of Blightmare. This time, I will start introducing our custom made editor. Now, you may be asking, “Tom, you’re using Unity, and Unity is an editor, why would you write your own?” Well let’s find out! So firstly, what do we even mean by “editor”? In the Continue Reading
When Platforms Move
Chris
- Monday, March 30th, 2020
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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
What’s in a Jump
Chris
- Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
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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
Blightmare Terrain
Tom
- Tuesday, March 17th, 2020
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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
Debugging Cats
Chris
- Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
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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