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So let me quickly talk about the four projects I currently have on the go. Beats Per Death. Made with a bunch of passionate Jr games...
Scott Hardy
Jan 12, 20212 min read
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Cognitive Dissonance
#Development #Yakuza So in my last post, I mentioned Cognitive Dissonance (CD). Way back in 1962, Festinger wrote a paper called "A...
Scott Hardy
Nov 13, 20203 min read
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Hypercore Level Design (Hub-1)
#leveldesign For Hypercore I worked with two programmers to create this "first person platformer collectron". There was alot more to do...
Scott Hardy
Aug 22, 20203 min read
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Marketing
#career So I need to market my game, but really I need to market myself Nathan Lovato has a nice post about marketing an indie game for...
Scott Hardy
May 8, 20201 min read
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Lucas Pope - Personal brands.
So looking at personal brands. Im going to do this look into Lucas Pope one of my personal designer heroes Now Lucas Pope is who I want...
Scott Hardy
May 8, 20202 min read
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Taking Stock
#Career So we have been given a few questions to answer about blogs. What is the primary purpose of your website and blog? Building my...
Scott Hardy
May 8, 20202 min read
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Shadow Complex
#Research #FMP So with my Fmp being a Metroidvania I took a look at the '09 game Shadow Complex. With its high reviews [2] when it came...
Scott Hardy
May 8, 20204 min read
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Scream like your girlfriend is deaf*
#FMP *(she isnt, she has tons of work to do and im going "ookkooo" and "Garrrggg" in the background and its massively annoying. ) So...
Scott Hardy
May 6, 20201 min read
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Building the world
#FMP This week im going to focus on building the levels. Using Metroidvania[1] style games im thinking about what I really want my game...
Scott Hardy
May 5, 20201 min read
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Accessibility 1
#Dev #Accessibility #a11y So im working on a larger post about Cognitive Dissonance, So this week im going to have a quick chat about...
Scott Hardy
Apr 28, 20203 min read
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Why I'm The Best.
#Development #Career What makes you a valued asset to our company? Well, apart from being charming, handsome and fantastic lover, I'm...
Scott Hardy
Apr 15, 20203 min read
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Working From home
#FMP #Covid19 So it's been hard, working from home. Normally I would head into the university and I have that clear idea in my mind that...
Scott Hardy
Mar 24, 20202 min read
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Peer Review: Jack Hill
Part of building our brands is to look at other peoples personal websites and review them. See what tips I can grab and what I would do...
Scott Hardy
Mar 16, 20202 min read
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Peer Review: James Nethercott And Matthew Pendleton
#PeerReview Updated: to add Matthew Pendleton, their websites are very similar. Part of building our brands is to look at other peoples...
Scott Hardy
Mar 16, 20202 min read
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Peer Review: Antonio Maggi Madrid
#PeerReview Part of building our brands is to look at other peoples personal websites and review them. See what tips I can grab and what...
Scott Hardy
Mar 16, 20203 min read
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Oh for a checkbox.
#fmp So I am an advocate of buying engines and assets. You see online other developers scoffing at not building everything from scratch,...
Scott Hardy
Mar 13, 20201 min read
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Dam it Jim I'm a designer not a programmer
#fmp #reflection I can design systems. I can talk about how stealing an idol should trigger this giant boulder trap and how it will be...
Scott Hardy
Feb 18, 20201 min read
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Math 0.5 / 1
#Fmp Top: Flux Chart, Left: Luxury, Mid:Tech, Right: Basic Never before have I had to strong-arm math. Maybe its because I haven't really...
Scott Hardy
Feb 11, 20202 min read
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First ScreenShot
#screenshot #FMP #FinalMajorProject So I been listening to lots of GDC talks. In No Time, No Budget, No Problem: Finishing The First Tree...
Scott Hardy
Feb 4, 20201 min read
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Rock Paper Scissor RPG
#mobliegame So I have been starting to diversify my portfolio as I seem to have a complete lack of mobile games. So over the weekend,...
Scott Hardy
Jan 28, 20202 min read
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