Hi, just a quick update! I imported some of my favorite posts from my old Wordpress blog Bitksel, since I wanted to archive them here. The images wont show up correctly, however you can highlight the image link and open it in new tab to see it. Wordpress doesn't like directly linking some of the images it seems. I will also keep up the Bitksel blog on Wordpress as long as possible, so you can read the originals from there. But just in case Wordpress decides to remove it all, at least the text...| AksDev
This is how it went, or at least how I remember it. It was so hectic this may be out of order but anyway! One Hour Game Jam is a gamejam where everyone has to make a game, you guessed it, in one hour. The theme for the jam I joined was "Your favorite game but as simple as possible." So naturally, I recreated Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind in simplest way I could think, meanwhile trying to make it in an hour. IT WAS STRESSFUL! Super stressful, but so so rewarding when you got something made. I had...| AksDev
More space games! This time I'm writing about a very simple yet addicting spaceship game called ASTROX: Hostile Space Excavation. I really enjoyed this game and it's getting a sequel soon! ASTROX is a space simulation game where you can mine, haul, do missions and of course shoot pirates. You start the game in a dinky little ship out in the butt of space, and the only way now is up. You must gather resources to buy better ships, upgrade them and make a name for yourself. It is rather simple o...| AksDev
Sorry for the month of silence, I didn't have much time/energy to write anything here. But now, I wanna tell you guys about a space sim that I really like! I'm playing the Albion Prelude expansion in these screenshots, but TC and AP are really similar to each other. AP just has some quality of life fixes and a huge war going on in a few systems. X3: Terran Conflict is a very popular space sim in space sim communities. The game basically throws you into a huge universe in a dinky lil ship and ...| AksDev
Happy new year 2018 folks! I decided the first blog post for this year would be about STRAFE, which is an old-school styled FPS. Fast, fun and gorey, just how I like my FPS games. First of all, STRAFE had a bit rough start. People were critiquing it for it's bugginess, map design and especially for it's randomization. It says 90's on the tin, however the procedural generation stuff kind of implies about 2010's, making it a bit of mixed bag. This is an opinion some people still hold, however a...| AksDev
I finally finished Pillars of Eternity and it's White March expansions, and yes, it got it's deserved place on my "favorite games" list! It's very hard for me to even start to explain how much I like it, but I'll try. I also keep this a bit shorter than the Tyranny overview: There's so much things in this game it's hard for me to talk about everything without writing this for next 10 hours.. It's 5 am while I'm writing this and I really got to sleep. The game starts with making a character, o...| AksDev
I wanted to write this quick summary of how my Crypt of Darne game project went, now that I've collected data long enough. Without further ado, let's begin! You enter the Crypt of Darne and you're looking for a specific gem. Will you survive?" Crypt of Darne is a free roguelike-ish dungeon delving game, where you make a character out of few race-class combinations and explore a crypt, trying to find a specific gem. You'll know it when you see it, but it is hidden deeply in the crypt. Good lu...| AksDev
Yesterday I finished INFRA, a game about urban exploration. I'll start this bluntly: INFRA got on my "favorite games of all time" -list. It's just that good. Here are my thoughts about it and I'm sorry that they're spread a bit everywhere. I'm influenced by whisky as I'm writing this, lol. _ _In INFRA, you play as a guy called Mark, who is some sort of building inspector at Stalhburg City. You know, inspecting the state of buildings, infrastructure, all that. Sounds rather.. Boring, right? ...| AksDev
Yesterday, after 13 hours of play, I finished Tyranny. I bought the game only couple a days ago and I just couldn't stop playing it, so I finished it rather quickly. Here's some of my thoughts about it. Tyranny is remarkably similar to Pillars of Eternity, since they use the same engine. The only big change is the story and setting itself, so they aren't tied to each other. I absolutely loved Pillars of Eternity, so I will be doing some comparing between the two. I will write a post about Pil...| AksDev
This is another post from my old devlog I'm transfering here. I really liked this post so I thought I'll keep it. This happened before I started to make that roguelike, but I feel like I should talk about this, I think it’s important for the newcomers in gamedev. This is gonna be an incoherent rambling, but I hope my point comes across. Dunno about others, but I’m sure many gamedevs have so many ideas they don’t know where to start. I had this panic before the Games Made Quick gamejam ...| AksDev
Sometimes when I read internet forums like Reddit to rot my brain, I stumble upon on threads where people are asking stuff like: "I haven't felt like playing anything for ages, what to do?" or "I have hundreds of games but no desire to play." I've never really felt this way since I always find something to play, but I have few tips for people who wish to "get back to gaming" again. Hopefully these are helpful. 1. Nostalgia trip One that always has worked for me whenever I'm in gaming slump is...| AksDev
I've been playing lots of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind lately. It's an older role-playing game for PC and classic Xbox, but I play it on PC. I got it back in 2005, but I still play it from, time to time. It's my favorite game of all time. I remember the day I bought this game like it happened yesterday. I was on a class trip back in elementary school. It was true hell and I hated almost every single moment of it. But during the trip back home, we stopped by in some city for two hours. Aft...| AksDev
During christmas holidays I visited my parents and took some photos of the old Nokia phones I used to have. Thankfully my parents had kept them safe, I'm sure some of them would still work if recharged, but I'm not sure if the batteries are good anymore so I didn't take that risk. I will type anything I remember about them on this post, but I won't go into technical details since you can find those elsewhere. Nokia 2010 I actually never used this phone, just played around with it. It was a "...| AksDev
I am actually one of those weirdos who love christmas. I don't like how busy people are or any of that, but I like the wait and excitement that I still get, even it's not as prevalent as it was when I was younger. I also love christmas food and I get this very comfy feeling for some reason around christmas. No idea why, but it makes me happy, even if it's just a holiday to for companies to exploit blatant consumerism. ;) Since christmas is within a week, I decided to reinstall one of my favor...| AksDev
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