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Nano Doc Coming Tomorrow!

Nano Doc – coming to XBox Live Indie Games – 7/17/2012

Nano Doc Trailer

Here’s the trailer for Nano Doc, my entry into this years Dream Build Play! The game will be going into playtest soon, and hopefully be released on XBox Live Indie Games this summer!

ColorListLerp

Something I’ve been interested in doing for my game is having a smooth lerp (linear interpolation) for a list of multiple colors. This kind of effect can be used for anything from health bars to sunsets. Out of the box, you get a LERP from one color to another.

dream build play

NanoDoc Teaser

Short trailer for the game I’ve been working on the last few months, NanoDoc, a shooter:

Fez and the Art of Indie Games

Last Friday, around 9 AM, I booted up my XBox, navigated to the Arcade channel, and downloaded Fez. After 5 years of development, 2 Indie Games Festival awards, a feature in a Sundance film, heaps of controversy and many teaser trailers, the game was out. The Polytron logo drew on

GDC Pirate Kart

I made a game for the GDC Pirate Kart: http://www.piratekart.com/ It’s called Seizure Jumper and it probably could induce fits in some people. If you aren’t one of those people, give it a try here: http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/2669

XNA Postmortem

My App Hub [http://create.msdn.com/en-US/] membership expires tomorrow. I decided to write a “postmortem” on my experience with the service, and game dev in general. This past year I released 3 games. The first game, Platform Hack, took about 9 months to develop, with lots of false

Platform Hack v 1.1

The new PC release of Platform Hack is the latest version 1.1. Download Here (51 mb zip) This is a pretty massive update that includes lots of polish, bug fixes and tuning: -Fixed controls for PC -Updated game font -Updates to game save / load -Added a longer delay when

PC Versions Released

All three versions of my games are now out on PC! They can be downloaded for free on the games page [http://daydalus.net/DaydalusStudio/wordpress/?page_id=4] .

Super Zombie Smash Released

Super Zombie Smash is now out on XBox Live! XBox Live – Super Zombie Smash [http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Super-Zombie-Smash/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550a8b] – 80 MP ($1)

Welcome!

Welcome to the new site of Daydalus Studio! 2012 is shaping up to be an exciting year, with lots of new games in the pipeline!

Moving!

This blog is moving! The new address will be http://daydalus.net/wordpress(which was always the address), but http://daydalus.net will no longer redirect to the blog. Daydalus.net is going to be the home of my game development efforts Daydalus Studio. I’m hoping to move shortly

WebApp Review

Google has come out with yet another attempt to conquer the mighty Facebook, this time with Google+. Clearly splitting up groups of friends is a good idea, something Facebook has yet to get quite right. The signup is a bit too complicated – I don’t see people’s moms signing

New Tunes

Washed out – Within and Without [http://www.amazon.com/Within-Without-Washed-Out/dp/B0050546IM] Last summer my zone-out record of choice was Delorean – Subiza, and this year I think it will be Washed out – Within and Without. The indie-bloggers have already coined a new genre (post-chillwave) to describe the record, but it

Reading Roundup

David Foster Wallace – Pale King It’s pretty depressing to think that Wallace was hacking away at this thing the last 10 years of his life, without success. Granted, there are some pretty impressive sections here (POV tales of oddball characters, ending up as tax processors in Peoria, IL), and

game of thrones

Moving Images

Game of Thrones [http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html] Years ago, when I first started reading George RR Martin’s series, I found immediate comparisons with HBO’s The Sopranos. The sex, violence and backstabbing in Westeros was right on par with Tony, Paulie, Christopher and the rest of

Game On

Fallout 3 [http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Fallout-3/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802425307d5?cid=search] The world is gorgeous and vast, and the atmosphere is downright horrific, but the character animations give the entire thing a healthy dose of Uncanny Valley. The scripting is a bit off as well, so it feels like

On Gamification

Recently there’s been a lot of talk about Gamification. Applying the principles of video games to every day tasks – notably, the addictive “compulsion loop” of grindfests like World of Warcraft and other rpgs. Jane McGonigal’s book Reality is Broken is leading the charge. The author had recently suffered

One Last Thing

Posted something I wrote years ago: New York Vignettes [http://daydalus.net/wordpress/?page_id=411]. Makes me nostalgic for those streets of Manhattan… [![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_35Tb4BicIFQ/SkbXOUz2q6I/AAAAAAAAAho/kYocp0vbuWA/s400/IMG_6739.JPG)](https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/KqaNf5nGElZ6t2H2EshP6Q?feat=embedwebsite) From [NY Late June](https:

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

I just put up two lists that contain all the Music [http://daydalus.net/wordpress/?page_id=390] and Book Reviews [http://daydalus.net/wordpress/?page_id=397] I’ve done since the start.

Mountain

The weather down south has been unseasonably warm lately. I took advantage and headed up to the Blue Ridge Parkway recently. The trail we were after was gated shut, but we did find a pathway up to the top of Black Balsam Knob. Very cool place – a 6000+ foot mountain

The Pursuit Of...

Last year I went to the Decatur book festival to hear Jonathan Franzen do a reading from his latest novel, Freedom. The guy had recently been on the cover of time magazine with the headline “Great American Novelist”, and had just been re-inaugurated to Oprah’s book club (despite pooh-poohing

Top 10 of '10

Delorean – Subiza When I checked iTunes to see what I played most this year, Subiza by Delorean was way out on top. There’s two types of music I listen to – songs that have well-written lyrics and accompanying tones to match the theme. In a sense, narrative music. The other

Stoner-opolis

Every so often I’ll head over to newyorker.com and check out the fiction stories they have posted. Most of the time it’s a drab plotless emotional literary blip by TC Boyle or Alice Monroe, but this particular time it was a compelling piece by Jonathan Lethem – Lostronaut.

Platform Hack Blog

I’ve started a new blog over at blogger specifically for the development of PlatformHack, the game I’m building in XNA. The posts may get on the technical side and have a bit of code, and also will be a bit less polished than Daydalus posts, which is why