This article was brought to you by the kind patrons supporting me on Patreon. You can find the article there as well! Hey all! In my previous articles I mentioned I was working on Mighty Goose 2. During the process of designing the game I’m constantly looking at the first game and analyzing it’s components. While I’m reflecting on the first game, I might as well split that process up into postmortem-esque articles! This is one of them and today’s topic is ‘mighty mode’! Mighty Mode Game design lesson: When you let people play your game, they will always do
The sequel This article is a follow-up to the last one, in which we took a critical look at the first Mighty Goose. In this post, I go into greater detail about the problems we identified and what Mighty Goose 2 can do to "fix" them. This article was brought to you by the kind patrons supporting me on Patreon. You can find the article there as well! Wait, more Mighty Goose? At first, I had some reservations about the idea of doing a second Mighty Goose game. I'll be honest; after working on the Waterworld DLC, I had pretty
Let’s talk about Mighty Goose (This is a mirror post from Patreon) Hey all, it’s been ages since I wrote anything on Patreon. Sorry for that! For a long time I wanted write a post, but simply didn’t know what to write about. Creative energy wasn't flowing so to speak. I want to get back into the habit of writing posts and the best way of doing that is just doing it I guess. So, lets catch up. Currently I’m working on a few things. PixelBasher (just ongoing updates) Job (random illustration works and some frontend dev) A new Mighty
Finishing Mighty Goose November 23, 2021 Last week I got the translation document for the Mighty Goose content update back from the localization team. Yes! Finally we can wrap up the content update! This translation document is basically just a big ass spreadsheet with all the text in the game. After converting the spreadsheet into a .json file using one of the tools Mathias from MP2 wrote, I implemented them into the game. I soon felt a knot forming in my stomach as I tested the game. I had missed a sentence… Or rather, I had prefilled all of
Flying towards the horizon November 18, 2020 The year is nearing its end and covid is still here. Which is alright with me, I’m at home working on Mighty Goose anyway. I hope you folks are all doing fine as well, depending on where you live it may or may not affect your life a lot more. I've read some good things about vaccines lately, let's hope we can get some of that good stuff soon. 🙂 As I mentioned, the work continues. Currently I’m basically in the finishing up stages of Mighty Goose. All upgrades and secondary weapons