As mentioned before, my goal is to make an educational game. After more than a year of quiet behind-the-scenes development, Food Chain Farm is ready to come out. It is a construction game in a fun farm environment, with a tinge of biology education.

In the beginning, you see a …

Today's post is for the programmers: it's a bit technical. I finally solved a long-standing performance issue  in Happy Usagi, and I thought I'd share my notes.

The issue

This was the problem: Happy Usagi was sometimes a bit jittery or choppy. The graphics weren't entirely smooth, there was a …

This is the second part of my series about Speedhacking. Last week I looked at the reasons why you should participate, now I'm going to give some tips for beginners.

Are you going to join a speedhack, or other type of game jam, for the first time? Here are some …

Speedhacks (a.k.a Game jams), are competitions where you design and implement a complete game, from scratch, in an extremely short time limit (typically one weekend, or 72 hours). I'm a frequent participant and organizer of these events for the Allegro community (including the upcoming TINS competition, more on …