Tom Francis

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

I’ve been tweeting GIFs of a game I’m prototyping in Unity for a while now, codenamed Tiny Ex-Cons, and recently did a video blog about the core elements I’m hoping to combine if I go ahead with it. And I’ve been holding back part of the concept, and indeed the name. And hey, you know who’s good at art?

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. Honestly the concept doesn't make much sense to me, but anyway they pause everything to prepare for Amnesia Fortnight.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Charles Lee (Art Lead) , veteran art director and concept artist with past experience at Blizzard , Sony Pictures Animation , and who until very recently worked in the Visual Development of Netflix hit Arcane (damn!). And seems it provides a solid ground to start hiring the rest of the team, while they start prototyping their ideas.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article , in particular, from Nintendo Power, I have a distinct memory of reading and being totally transfixed by the concept of the world of Final Fantasy 1. (I Supporters get early access to stuff and will certainly be the first to get access to a playable prototype once it’s ready.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Like many game prototypes, my initial sheepherding test began as something much grander and more complicated. It's mostly "safe for work" even if the actual game is not.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

This is what the game looked like as a prototype. We spend a few months in this prototype developing the algorithms on how points are generated, what decisions players make, and how virtual games are reviewed and judged. We took our prototype and ported it from C# to JavaScript.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it. An Indie or Experimental Game : Steam, GOG, etc.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

In her excellent book Narrative As Virtual Reality , Marie-Laure Ryan outlines some common understandings of virtual: virtual as "digital": inspired by computer concepts like virtual memory. When cool European indie artists do it, I can abide it, but if I do it, I just feel too smug. What does the giant hole symbolize?

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