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A Brief Introduction to Bleed (and the Difference a Year Makes!)
Hi! Welcome to the development blog for Bleed! What is Bleed, you ask? Well, Bleed is a lot of things. It’s my vision of the evolution of action-platform games — a genre I hold dear but feel growing...
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Making A Better Tileset
Like most old-school platformers (and many modern ones) Bleed is a tile-based game. For those who don’t know, that means the game world exists as a big grid. Each space in the grid gets its graphics by...
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Animating Wryn
Animating characters in a sidescroller is usually pretty easy, especially when you use something called a sprite sheet. A sprite sheet is a large image that contains all the animations for a character....
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Three Years??
I did some fact-checking and it turns out I’m a little off on the numbers – Bleed has been in production for over two years, but not quite three. My bad. Still, a pretty long time, right?? I figured...
View ArticleBleed Demo!
Yo internet! If anyone wants to give Bleed a shot, here’s your chance. It’s a demo of the first level and a little bit of Challenge Mode, which lets you pick and fight up to three bosses at once. You...
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Making a Boss!
The game is almost ready to be released! Woo! Right now I’m going through a playtesting phase, trying to work out the kinks and catch any really nasty bugs. In the meantime, here’s a post about how I...
View ArticleBleed Release Date Announced!
Finally! Bleed will be out on Dec 12, 2012 for Xbox Live Indie Games and PC! For PC, you’ll be able to find it on GamersGate ( www.gamersgate.com ) and hopefully, right here (it’s still something I’m...
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The Making of The Useful Dead
Hey! So, I thought it would be fun to document the creation of a small game from start to finish. I’ve gotten into some nitty-gritty stuff in previous posts, but this will be more of a broad-phase,...
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