Secret of Escape – One Year On

June 23, 2014 by gamepopper in Game Project Updates, Secret of Escape and tagged 2014, computer games, Feature, Featured, game development, game project, gamepopper, Indie Game, Indie Game Developer, indie games, indie games development, one year, progression, Secret of Escape, video game, video games, year one | Leave a comment

Hello everyone! I figured it’d be the best time to announce that on this day, one year ago, I uploaded a game that I worked on for a week long game jam called the Midsummer Jam Week simply named, Secret of Escape. As such, this post is dedicated to showing how much I’ve progressed in a single year, and mention some of the significant changes made over time. A lot has changed from the day I decided to continue work on this game jam entry of mine.

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Global Games Jam 2014 Quick PostMortem

January 28, 2014 by gamepopper in Visits and Events and tagged 2014, computer games, Feature, Featured, games development, Games Jam, GGJ, GGJ14, Global Games Jam, indie games development, Post-Mortem, Postmortem, Stafford, Staffordshire University, University, video games | 1 Comment

For another year, Global Games Jam has ended, and what a time was had at Stafford Campus during the event. After 48 hours of work we were able to pull off most of what we had hoped and it’s time for me to give you my report. I will explain what happened, what problems were faced and what we produced.

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Global Games Jam 2014 and other updates

January 20, 2014 by gamepopper in Secret of Escape, Visits and Events and tagged 2014, Computer Game, computer games, Feature, Featured, game development, Games Jam, gaming, GGJ, GGJ2014, Global Games Jam, Indie Game, Indie Game Developer, indie games, indie games development, video games | Leave a comment

Hey everyone! Just thought I’d like to give a shoutout to all those who have been supporting me and following me on all my channels, you have no idea how much it all means to me. This also includes those who write about my stuff or make videos, I’m really thankful for the amount of effort some of you people have in showing your interest of my work.

Here’s one recent example that I’d like to show you, Gerry from MyGamesAreFun did a lets play of the first demo I did of Secret of Escape!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dqSvTgBRiU

Don’t forget that if you want to do any writeups or videos of my games, feel free to do so and send them my way. Now onto the main part of this post, the Global Games Jam! Continue reading →

GameJolt New Year’s Jam + TwitchTV Streaming

December 28, 2013 by gamepopper in Visits and Events and tagged computer games, game dev, GameJolt, games development, Games Jam, indie games development, Livestream, TwitchTV, video games, Weekend Jam | Leave a comment

Hope everyone had an awesome christmas and a happy new year! Just thought I’d do a late announcement on my involvement in the last weekend jam for GameJolt this year. I’ll be working on a game in HaxeFlixel, and see what happens. I’m also going to be Livestreaming it through Twitch, so go and watch me here!

Secret of Escape Mega Update

December 3, 2013 by gamepopper in Game Project Updates, Secret of Escape and tagged 2013, computer games, Escape, Feature, Featured, game development, Gameplay, gaming, Indie Game, Indie Game Developer, indie games, screenshots, Secret, Secret of Escape, Trailer, update, Video, video game, video games | Leave a comment

Since it has been a while since I did a status update, here is the latest update for Secret of Escape, along with a brand new gameplay video! There’s a lot of stuff to get through, so read on to find out what’s been happening for the past few months. Continue reading →

LAUNCH Conference 2013

November 26, 2013 by gamepopper in Visits and Events and tagged computer games, Computer Gaming, Conference, CrashLab, DHD, Feature, Featured, games industry, Games Programmer, indie games, Indie Gaming, Lady Shotgun, LAUNCH, LAUNCH Awards, LAUNCH Conference, Octane, Playstation 4, Rare, Sessions, Staffordshire, Staffordshire University, Sync Interactive, Talks, Three Monkeys, Unity, video games, Video Gaming, Windows Games Ambassador | 1 Comment

So I mentioned last week that I was going to LAUNCH Conference 2013, as well as being short listed for the Best Portfolio LAUNCH award (see here to show I wasn’t lying). Now that it’s been over for some time, I figured I shall write about it.

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Woops, my bad!

October 16, 2013 by gamepopper in Uncategorized and tagged 2013, computer games, Demo, download, Games, indie games, pc, Secret of Escape, video games, Windows | Leave a comment

I linked the wrong page in my last blog post and I only noticed it today. If you want to try out the demo for Secret of Escape, go to the page here. You can also find the page by going to Games > 2013 and clicking on the Secret of Escape screenshot.

Sorry for the error.

Secret of Escape – Near Release!

October 15, 2013 by gamepopper in Secret of Escape and tagged 26th, computer games, Demo, Desura, download, Feature, Game Demo, indie game development, indie games, Itch.io, Norwich Game Expo, October, October 26th, Secret of Escape, video games | Leave a comment

Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been losing track of things while working on Secret of Escape. Good news is that I now have a new demo for you all to try out on the main page, this is the demo that I showed at the Norwich Games Expo, which I’ll write about soon.

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Gamepopper at Norwich Game Expo

October 8, 2013 by gamepopper in Secret of Escape, Visits and Events and tagged 2013, Bossa Studios, Computer Game, computer games, Convention, expo, Feature, games industry, Indie Game, Indie Game Developer, indie game development, indie games, Norwich, Norwich Game Expo, Norwich Games Expo, Norwich Indie Game Developer Group, Norwich Sound + Vision, Norwich Sound and Vision, Secret of Escape, video games, video games industry | 3 Comments

So anyone who follows the Norwich Indie Game Developer Group or at least my Twitter may already know this, but I’ll be attending the first ever Norwich Games Expo on Saturday 12th October, at Epic Studios.

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Eurogamer 2013: Day Before

September 28, 2013 by gamepopper in Visits and Events and tagged 2013, Eurogamer, Eurogamer Expo, Feature, indie games, London, natural history museum, September, Travel, video games, windows games, Windows Games Ambassador | Leave a comment

Hey guys! It’s Saturday and despite Eurogamer still running until Sunday, I’ll tell you about my time at Eurogamer! This was surprisingly my first time at Eurogamer, I missed out last year so I really wanted to go after missing out on a lot. Thanks to being a Windows Games Ambassador, I volunteered help with Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Dreamspark promotion at the event and got to be a zombie! But more on that when we get to it, because here’s a summary of what happened on the day before Eurogamer started.

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Secret of Escape – One Year On

Global Games Jam 2014 Quick PostMortem

Global Games Jam 2014 and other updates

GameJolt New Year’s Jam + TwitchTV Streaming

Secret of Escape Mega Update

LAUNCH Conference 2013

Woops, my bad!

Secret of Escape – Near Release!

Gamepopper at Norwich Game Expo

Eurogamer 2013: Day Before