Bytesize Adventures
Crafting bite-sized digital worlds

Not a spectacular week in terms of progress. I largely spent the week coming up with a concept for the level select screen. It may sound dull but ultimately the…

Fairly limited but good progress this week. I’ve mainly focussed on the separation of foreground elements from the tiles that I mentioned last week. I finished adding scenery points to…

Growth animation on Vine

A bout of illness early in the week slowed me down somewhat. That’s not to say that nothing was achieved though. In the latter part of the week I focused…

This week was interesting. I finished porting to Sprite Kit. Unfortunately I had severe performance issues in scene transitions, interrupted actions, and, most importantly, tile placement. I’m talking about a…

This week… still more porting! I successfully migrated the level select screen. The layout is far from perfect but is just about looking okay across all devices. No especially big…

This week, more porting to Sprite Kit. I created texture atlas’s for the main menu for all device targets (iPad, iPad retina, iPhone, iPhone 5). This was satisfying as its…

And we’re off. My first devlog of 2014. I’m breaking these into week long blocks. They’re designed to be short, discussing what has been achieved each week. Hopefully they will…

Happy new year! Its been a while. Lets kick off 2014 as we mean to go on, with a post. In this one we’re reviewing 2013 and discussing what’s in…

Level 3 of my demo is at last complete. This sprint has included the addition of a new river tile and two new widgets (the bridge and the teleport). The…