Nick Pasko

Programmer goes enterpreneurship.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Sparks in the Biz of mobile games


Quite some time ago, I have signed up for Bizspspark as i found it to be a good platform to start my own gaming industry. Yes, the loud laughing is expected here ))

As time goes by, me and my partner tried to start quite a number of different games, starting with a full-scale RTS for Windows Phone, scaling it down to a Base Wars game, diverting to a learn-the-maths WP game for kids with nice friendly aliens (and some evil bosses, too)

And now i'm trying to scratch enough time to create a simple dungeon crawler. It crawls already, the randomly created maze is there (although it has no entrance or exit), the monsters are there, you can kill them all to win, you can get killed to lose.

There is no loot there, no RPG model (like, you have HP, armor, AC, THAC0 etc, but no primary skill like str/dex/con - you get the idea). No gold, no inventory. No different mazes, no traders or something. All of it is yet to come.

But you have a maze, you have monsters, you have fighting sound (yes, THE fighting sound, lol) - and then you have some nice dungeon-style music. (Actually, it's Druuge theme from Precursors Ur-Quan Masters. I doubt they will let me put it in a final version of the game, yet they may allow that if the game is free - I'll have to talk to them about that once the game is more refined. At least once of them gave his permission to use another theme in a freeware game.)

In short - there is a long path before me... and acquiring Diablo 3 the other day ate up all of my free time. Oh, gamers... ))