• If designerwatts made an iPhone game – MOLE

    So what do I have here?

    Well, freeplay is coming up this week and for the event I wanted to make something to promote myself with. Tower City is all well and good but for the context of small indie development it doesn’t quite fit.

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  • Tower City - Prototype Demo - August Build

    Tower City August Build:
    Health bars, monsters and projectile weapons!

    Download the August build here!

    How to play:
    1: Download…

  • Tower City - Prototype Demo - July Build

    This month marks a smaller update to the Tower City prototype demo project. The main reason being that I was involved in a large house move and it took 3 weeks to get internet re-established in my new residence.

    A few new features added to…

  • Mech-Tech

    What's all this then?

    For the last few weeks I've been offline due to a house move. And in that time while I used net-cafes to communicate to my team on Tower City and keep management going, I wasn't able to work on any online related…

  • Level Design Video Showreel - June 2009

    A bit of a departure from the standard showing of UnrealED and mod levels made from FPS engines. This 3 minute video is split up into two parts.

    The first part showcases the level design iteration process, which is actually quite important…

  • Some musing on Design Aikido Melbourne

    Greetings,

    The games industry event Design Aikido was held on Wednesday the 22nd. As a fellow industry designer I wanted to share my views on this event.

    Held at a classy little Bar & Club on the Melbourne docklands, it was a…

  • Some musings on Stormrise

    Greetings.

    I wanted to give my thoughts on the Aussie developed console RTS Stormrise. Please keep in mind that I’m not a reviewer in any real sense, these are accounts of the game and my views of it as a fellow developer that’s worked on…

  • Tower City - Prototype Proposal [Indies needed!]

    If you don't yet know about the game design project Tower City. Please check
    out the following link before proceeding: http://www.tsumea.com/…

  • Tower City - Video Log 1 - A Warm Welcome

    Greetings! :)

    Please visit http://www.designerwatts.com/

    Just under 2 months in the making. I present the beginning of the Game Design Project: Tower City.

    Before you is the first…

  • DesignerWatts - Some musings on Puzzle Quest Galactrix

    Video Notes:
    My musings and thoughts on the PC port of the game , Puzzle Quest Galactrix.

    The video sources, excluding the 3 second work in progress animation near the start of the video are all based off assorted promotional videos…