See original post . Few things in Rainboids got as much patient, near-obsessive attention as the background starfield. From the start, I wanted it to feel like more than a backdrop — more than a bla...

See original post . HUDs tend to be one of the most understated aspects of game design: good ones don't feel like they're there. It's easy to overlook how much time and effort goes into making them co...

See original post . I finally got sound effects working again. It was an involved effort Randomized Sound EFfects Originally, I was generating random sound effects at game load. The idea was to genera...

See original post . The last two days have been a lot of good, solid work – the kind of work where you make slow-but-steady progress. Rainboids has seen a lot of incremental improvements, including...