Dear Fans,
I wish you all a happy new year, whether you follow the sun, the western calendar, the moon, the ancient book you love… Sooner or later we all face a new year. I just want you to know that if you are working hard on your dream,
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Yearly Archives: 2018
A Fun Day’s Work
by 
Melanie
MelanieMy new game, which I haven’t announced yet, is potentially awesome. The team I have also not yet introduced. But we are still very early in development and are only a skeletal crew… Whether this game is interesting and playable, we won’t be able to discern, until I can devise some basic art for the cells,
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What is a game jam?
by Melanie
MelanieIn my new life as professor of Interactive Media at Harrisburg University, I am part of a team hosting a game jam for our students. Many students ask, “Hey, what is a game jam?” I remember wondering that myself… Here is my answer:
A game jam is a group of people making a game in a short amount of time.
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A good day
by Melanie
MelanieDear DevBlog,
Today is a very good day. I am building levels in the first iteration of our new mobile game! It is so new and so exciting that I am only going to tell you the name and nothing else. It’s called Speedy Cell. And yes, as the name implies,
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When anything is possible.
by Melanie
MelanieI’m flying in an airplane. At some point my mind drifts and I forget where I am going and for a moment, I could be going anywhere. In this exciting, happy moment all the possibilities crowd my brain. I smile and think, “I like this feeling… I should travel more.”.
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NanoCrasherVR
by Melanie
MelanieTonight I am presenting NanoCrasherVR at B’moreVR. This group is really nice to hang out with. Everyone is working on something not just cool but experimental. It seems everyone there is pushing some frontier forward.
The work never stops! The presentations, the coding, the art and design…
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Day 1 post GDC_2018
by Melanie
MelanieIn train on the way to work… This mornings train thoughts are that I want to slow down and stay engaged. Slow down because I need to relax and not worry that things are not done yet. And stay engaged instead of withdrawing from the society of other game developers…
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