Author: rettisawesome

Rett is a writer, podcaster, and musician from the PNW. He's the founder of Awesome! Internet Radio and producer of all the podcasts.

GAME DEV’S QUEST e36: TRIBAL TRIGGERS

Taylor and Rett dissect their entry for the One Mechanic Game Jam, or OMGJam, and discuss the things they learned about unity. Taylor’s been working on his One Game a Month entry and making some great progress on the Udemy unity course.

Other than game dev, they rip into some DnD, talk about the primal connections to music, horror, and comedy. They talk about drumming. And Rett shares some of his experience playing music in musicals.

Today’s Quick Tip:
https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/tips/play-mode-editor-tint

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e35: OMGAMESTORM

Taylor and Rett kick off the One-Mechanic-Game Jam number 2! What is the #OMGJam you ask? It is a game jam where you do your best to create a game that is played with only one mechanic in only a single weekend! The guys spend their time brainstorming for their own entry.

Taylor discuses challenging himself to attempt One Game a Month or #1GAM and holding himself accountable by streaming regularly. And Rett whines about the woes of having many bosses.

Today’s Quick Tip
Use the Fixed Update Method when doing physics calculations in the Unity Engine. Follow the link below to learn more!
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.FixedUpdate.html

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e34: POWER BAR PLEASURE CENTER

Taylor and Rett talk about game design, scaling experience points, progressing games, and which design choices are better. And we tie it all in with our favorite games and examples.

We prep for the second One Mechanic Game Jam and have a great time! Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes!

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e33: THE SHORTEST ONE

Taylor and Rett get caught up after taking a week off and record the shortest episode yet. Rett talks about blacksmithing. Taylor is working on Bowl Master and shares about the upcoming Game Dev Biz conference.

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e32.5: NIHONGOHAN

Taylor and Rett are off the Shinkansen and are back home. They unpack their trip to Japan and discuss their trials, their joys, and the dreaded jet lag.

If you are thinking about travelling to Japan and want some advice hit us up on email or twitter!

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e32: SHINKANSEN EDITION

Pardon us for the low sound quality, but this episode was recorded LIVE on board Hikari 465 to Himeji. Taylor and Rett spend a lot of time talking about the cultural difference between Japan and the US, all the places they’ve visited, the things they’ve seen. Check our twitter, linked below, to see some of their pictures!

Japan was an absolutely amazing experience, and we are so excited to share it with you. If you can’t enjoy this episode due to the sound quality, then check back in a few days for the follow up episode when Taylor and Rett return home.

TWO EPISODES IN ONE WEEK

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e29: CABBAGE BOUQUET

Taylor and Rett talk about riding motorcycles, the upcoming Dota 2 International (already happened at this point), the upcoming Dark Tower movie, North Korea missile tests.

Then on the development side of things, they discuss finalizing their game jam game, Castle Master Faster Blaster, and shipping that to mobile. And Taylor shares info about his security training at work.

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e21: ENJOY GAME DEV CONFERENCE

Taylor and Rett are back with a packed week! This episode was recorded in 4 separate segments. On August 4th, in preparation for the Enjoy Game Dev Conference, they hosted the One-Mechanic-Game Jam, or OMGJam. They dissect their entry, then play and discuss the other entries.

Enjoy Game Dev was hosted on August 5th and was a fantastic time all around. All speakers were great. It was very motivational, informational, and most of all a fun time! Taylor took detailed notes, so make sure to look at the links below for everything that happened this week.

GAME JAM HOME

ENJOY GAME DEV

ENJOY GAME DEV CONFERENCE NOTES

GAME JAM CODE 

Big shout-outs this week to Twitch users –Elbossmc, Krassenstein, KatalystKreations, MiceSoap, Lovesickdev

Make sure to check out Krassenstein’s twitch stream

 

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e20: THE PLOT THICKENS

Rett saw Wonder Woman, so naturally Taylor and him talk about Hand Maid’s Tale…. and movies. The DC film universe is discussed. Which leads to story and narrative driven art. They share their favorite Pixar shorts. And their favorite story driven video games.

Another shout out to Rockzom for chilling (this episode was recorded way before he was on our show!) and to PixelPileDriver for giving some great pixel art tips on our live stream.

Major shout out to Coffee with Butterscotch a fantastic, hilarious, all around great game dev podcast on youtube AND itunes. go check it out!

URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT!
This week on Friday, August 4th, we are going to be doing a one day game jam and invite and challenge everyone to participate and create their own games! It’s called the One Mechanic Game Jam. Read all about it on the link below. But the idea is to create a game using one playing mechanic. When you are done post it on itch.io and tweet us using the hashtag #OMGJam.

https://itch.io/jam/one-mechanic-game-jam

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e19: COMPANY OF ZEROES

Taylor and Rett are back to talk about CritJuice, the best DnD play podcast. Then they briefly touch on games, Abzu, Overwatch, and Company of Heroes, the last of which was recently on sale to celebrate opening the game up to mods.

Taylor shares his blogging vision, establishing Mentor Mondays as a weekly Twitch stream. And then Rett introduces Taylor to Space Engine.

SOME THINGS TO NOTE:
Space Engine sub
@saint11 Patreon
Steam Direct self publishing

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