About
Biography
Video Game Biscuit is about game development. I will discuss the games I’m working on, explain techniques I use for creating game content and review game development tools and books. I will also publish all finished games here.
I develop games all by myself, so you probably won’t see a first person shooter with maps the size of a fortress or role playing games with background stories the size of a novel here. I will discuss some of the problems and difficulties the solo game developer will have to deal with, such as creating or finding good game content, game engines and project organisation.
I have played videogames myself since I first found out they existed. My very first game was a Nintendo Game & Watch Donkey Kong game. After that, I got a Commodore 64 with hundreds of games, followed by a long period of PC gaming. At the moment, my gaming equipment consists of a PC and a Nintendo Wii.
My first attempts at creating video games are quite a long time ago. The very first one was with Borland Delphi, wich failed miserably. After that, I have tried the WinG library (wich only resulted in a bouncing ball demo that crashed my computer after ten seconds), DirectX and OpenGL with C++. Trying to build a game from scratch, or even worse, a game engine, is a very bad idea, though, especially if you’re working alone. There are plenty of good engines available, so there’s no need to reinvent the wheel.
Social networking sites
I’m an active user of several social networking sites. Here’s a list of the ones where I have a profile: