Hello fellow co-conspirators! These past few weeks I’ve been testing the game with other game designers around Vancouver. While watching them play I noticed something that bothered me….they all played the same way. As a strategy game, Puppetmaster should have different options for players to chose from. If several people are playing the exact same …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! This week was pretty fun, focussing on playtesting the game, finding bugs and polishing it up. Contrary to popular belief playtesting is not the same as QA testing. The latter focuses mostly on finding bugs and broken systems (like missing art), while the former is about putting the game in front of …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! This week we finish the main game loop (finally). This by creating our end game logic; in other words our victory & defeat screens! Without further ado, I present to you the end screens: Ok so they are not much to look at right now, and that’s fair. This week the most …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! This week I worked on one of the most experimental parts of the game… at least design-wise. As we’ve mentioned before, each unit has a series of missions they can go on. In the prototype, these missions were determined by the unit type; in other words, bankers would always make their connections …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! Last week we delved into investigating your targets in order to learn their weekenesses. Today we’ll see how this happens in the world of Puppetmaster. Remember this guy: You the good ol’ Agent, your stating unit and BFF (in the context of this game). As true believers in the cause, they behave …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! An up and coming secret society doesn’t necessarily know everything that is going on in a region they plan to conquer. This is why knowledge and awareness are the most important tools for any would be world conqueror. In Puppetmaster this is represented by the Investigation System. So far in our posts, …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! Now that I’m back in action I really wanted to make this week count. As I’ve previously mentioned the core of the game is to dismantle existing power structures and instal your own. This is represented by destroying and building networks between the region’s power key holders (which are basically units). Because …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! This week was a bit of rough for me as I got a really bad cold. Lasted for about 5 days and my brain was so fuzzy I couldn’t make heads or tails of the code. However, the globe keeps on spinning and we Puppetmaster needs to launch so cold and all …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! When people think of games, they generally tend to think about programming or game design or art; but in reality there are many more super important roles. Part of the reason why I “went Indie” was to get a better grasp of these other roles and what they do (most of them …
Hello fellow co-conspirators, If there is one single action in my game which encapsulates the core of the whole game, this is sending units on missions. Just like in an RTS sending commands is the 90% of what player do, so it is here. If you think of other great games and their core actions …
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