Nothing beats getting a new phone. You wait and wait till that cell phone contract is up, so that you can get a great deal on whatever the hot new phone is at the Verizon Store. Well at the time my contract was up (Nov 2009), the 2 hot new phones at Verizon were the [...]
One of the really important things I decided early on was that I wanted to have good background variety. All of my locations had to fit into the dog motif (i.e. parks, lawns, etc) but having level after level of dog parks wouldn’t be very interesting for the player. So how could I add variety [...]
When I conceived the backgrounds, I knew that I wanted to maximize the artwork I was paying for and build in the ability to mix and match elements to form new unique permutations of the backgrounds. In order to accomplish this, I required that every background be dissected into 3 parts: the sky, backdrop, and [...]
While I was working on coding the gameplay and figuring out exactly what we needed for the User Interface, Jeff (our artist) started working on the backgrounds for all the different levels in the game. I had brainstormed a lot of great locations and gave Jeff the list. He started off by sketching out the [...]
From my sketch, Jeff turned around a pretty great initial HUD mockup: I had a problem with some of Jeff’s color choices for the bone bar and we went through a few iterations of the Undo button. Ultimately the items in the corner got a lot more space as well. I liked the consistent leather [...]
As Jeff worked on the dogs and cards, I started working with him to think about the Player interface and the level backgrounds as well. I took a current screenshot at the time (Feb 2010) and marked it up with elements that we needed for the player. Ultimately, we worked on the backgrounds first and [...]
I had some pencil sketches and some really ugly early gameplay screenshots, so I knew that the first task was to work towards a final screenshot and get all the gameplay stuff done. I settled on including 40 dogs in this game and told Jeff to get started on some of the 26 I had [...]
I went to conceptart.org to find an artist to help me with this project. It’s hard to find someone to work with, so I decided that I would pay a few artists to work on some concept sketches of their vision of the game. I ultimately settled on Jeff Yoon since his responses were prompt [...]
Best in Show solitaire had humble beginnings… when I got my new Blackberry Storm 2, I started messing with it and trying to get games working on it. I started with a simple solitaire game that worked great on my PC, but lagged and had slowdown and control issues on my Blackberry. So I forgot [...]
So long time blog readers may remember some tests I was doing for a solitaire game on mobile devices. I never really got the game working how I wanted on my Blackberry, but the game has continued to evolve. Progress has been so good in fact that it will likely be our next full game [...]
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