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Game Design: Haxxx!!1!

Game Design and hacking? Huh, what? What is Adriaan talking about? I thought hacking was something exclusively for programming! Guess what? I’m a way better hacker than Bas, and I’m proud of it too! I’m talking about hacking in the form of inelegantly approximating a goal. It’s actually the same as in computer science. I […]

Adriaan Jansen
Game Design

Martian Flytrap adventures: The Dutch Game Garden Lunch

Hey all! Every first Wednesday of the month, a Dutch group called the Dutch Game Garden organizes a network lunch for the starting dutch gamedev community. There are people walking around just to make connections and talk with each other about their next endeavors. Some nice and ultra cool people from the Dutch indie scene […]

Adriaan Jansen
Llamapalooza

Concept Art: Why?!?!

Making a game is a lot of work. We work hard to get as much content in a game as possible. So why would we waste our time making stuff that isn’t going to end up in the game? What’s their purpose except for looking pretty on the wall of the work-environment?

Adriaan Jansen
Concept Art

Game Design: More stats equals Easier Balance

Last week I stated that more stats will make the job of balancing our game easier. Since for a lot of games this is not true at all, let me explain how it works here. For our new game, we want to have statistics for a certain segment of the planet. These stats should answer […]

Adriaan Jansen
Among the GiantsGame Design

Game Design: Mystery vs Depth

Today, while discussing our super cool new ambitious project, Bas and me got into a heavy discussion about giving the player information on the game mechanics. The game we’re creating is a kind of simulation game where you simulate the flow and grow of the earth with giants. Most of you probably already know that […]

Adriaan Jansen
Among the GiantsGame Design

Concept Art: The new game

After (almost) finishing Llamapalooza, we quickly started on a new, more ambitious project. We’re working on it with a team of 5. So what is this our project about, eh? Well, here is a little sketch as a sneak preview! ;D -Adriaan

Adriaan Jansen
Among the GiantsConcept Art

Martian Flytrap’s First game: Llamapalooza

Hello internet! We’re Martian Flytrap and we make computer games! We made some games together, but recently we finished our first game under this new cool name. It’s called Llamapalooza and it’s all about hitting llamas and connecting the Dutch, French, Peruvian and Mozambique cultures. <3 The goal of the game is to whip llama’s […]

Adriaan Jansen
Llamapalooza