playing Games while Game Developing [article]

3 years ago

I've just mentioned I've been playing the new Kirby game but I wanted to further make a topic on gaming while game developing. I have all my gaming devices always near my workstation with a slew of games that I like to play and tinker around in while I'm doing my work. Generally this is more about studying the game mechanics of these other games to help incorporate them into my own design.

I don think this is unusual for developers to be goofing around and gaming between doing their work. I remember reading up on how the folk at ID Software played around on a SNES while developing DooM way back in the day. Its fun, relaxing and it helps to clear the brain when on some hard hitting task in the dev cycle.

My current arsenal are pretty much your typical standard platforming and metroidvania fair, from simple games like Super Mario and Kirby to the more complex games like Metroid, Castlevanias Cave Story and even Shantae!

To any fellow would-be devs out there, what sort of games are you playing to help you along in your work?

On a sort of off topic here whatever games I don't have in physical portable form in the picture I have a slew of main retro consoles roms on a collection of emulation devices. I'm pretty damned stacked when it comes to personal gaming, I'm never really bored xD

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@GameChilla1

Cat brought in a baby bunny this morning. The poor lil guy has been my focus for the past few hours. I'm doing some research and talking to experienced friends on what I need to do. A prayer may help :P

@GameChilla3

This is perhaps the most amazing looking GBA game cart I've ever seen and its not even legit... Its a Chinese reproduction cartridge featuring an English translation hack of a Japanese exclusive game. :P China be getting better with their bootlegs yo!

@GameChilla4

So who else is enjoying Kirby in his new outing? I've been really digging the environments, the controls are awesomely smooth and Kirby is as adorable as ever :D

@GameChilla1

Here's the earliest look at what I am working on currently that will eventually become my 1st contribs to the indie scene here on Game-Jolt (and hopefully beyond!) What you see is the beginnings, no real graphics yet, just a basic platform engine. :)