James I. Martin

Software Engineer by day, Game Developer by night. I've been in the field for 10 years now and thought it's time to tell you all about the things that tripped me up along the way!

Marketing

Fan Fire

I peruse the forum's, I'm reading all the nice thing's and then I see ...

Fiction

Introducing: Oscar

"Those in the audience with a green pass please leave via the rear exit"

Marketing

All that Glitters ...

They were probably as desperate for a home run as we were for dollar.

Insanity

The Exorcism

We just need something temporary to get at the bones of our dead projects.

Game

The Trouble with Art: Part 2

I had lost the plot. Rational thinking went out the window. I'd gone tribal.

Insanity

Price of Failure

As for the second type of fool, well this type is buried deep in all of us.

Tutorial Featured

Let's talk about Game Design: Part 1

You can't save scum your way out of this like XCOM and trust me, you'll be devastated.

Game

Best Laid Plans

"I'll make an Real Time Strategy game set in space" I said, "it'll be easy" I said.

Insanity Featured

Journey of a Space Elephant

I had an idea ... It was empowering, intoxicating, and it involved a lot of screen time.

Business

Boutique to Business

We both have ideas for games, and we even have games to finish.

Fiction

Can we talk about Robot Dogs?

But we make a fatal mistake with it's code because we don't understand how AI works.

Game

The Trouble with Art: Part 1

One can get so focused on art that we loose sight of the bigger picture.

Featured

Brave New World

While I focused exclusively on Shallow Space, Alex created FORGE3D.