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GameDev.net Article #2!

I wrote another article with Ben Garney and it is now up on gamedev: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/design/features/mameWackySports/ This one is about design insights gleaned fr...

Author Eric Hartman Date 07/02/2008 (4:09 am) Comment 3 comments

GameDev.net Article!

An article I wrote with Ben Garney is now up on gamedev.net It's about game design lessons you can learn from MAME games. It has pictures and you should read it. [url]http://www.gamedev.net/r...

Author Eric Hartman Date 04/02/2008 (7:08 pm) Comment 9 comments

Pong in Blockland!

This weekend, I made pong in-game using the event system in the Blockland v9 Beta. Video: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ak94e_TJBw][image]http://badspot.us/dumb%5Cmisc%5CBlockland_Pong_yout...

Author Eric Hartman Date 02/11/2008 (7:07 pm) Comment 7 comments

Blockland > 1,000,000

No, sadly, not a million sales or even a million dollars. But... in the month of August there were http://www.blockland.us/smf/index.php?action=stats on the [...

Author Eric Hartman Date 09/04/2007 (9:53 pm) Comment 5 comments

Blockland Released...

So Blockland is out, http://blockland.us/index.asp?p=store and it's amazingly popular. I guess I should stop trying to keep it a secret. It's a sandbox game, you build with ...

Author Eric Hartman Date 03/02/2007 (3:39 am) Comment 9 comments

Blockland Halloween

So I've had the Torque engine for 5 years, made a couple games with it including two that are still fairly popular and I've never posted a blog. I'm gonna try to start doing this more often. For t...

Author Eric Hartman Date 10/31/2006 (11:19 pm) Comment 14 comments