Red Brick Games

Blog technical difficulties :-/

I feel cold just by looking at those.

Another work-in-progress tile set.

Lately I’ve been hitting freesound.org like mad. That is such an awesome website.

This is a really good time to be an indie game developer. So many quality tools and resources are available for free, or for nearly-free.

Tools and resources such as:

• Audacity - free (a VERY nice tool!)
• Blender - free (amazing…though hard to learn)
• Blender Torque DTS exporter - free (the docs for this are FANTASTIC!!!)
• Freesound.org sound files - free (mostly)
• Ogg Vorbis tools and codecs - free
• OpenAL drivers - free (x-platform audio spec)
• OpenOffice - free (ok, so it’s not about game dev, but ya gotta do project management!)
• Paint.net - free
• Perforce source control - free (up to 2 users)
• RTS environment pack - $40 (for the indie license; bigger projects=more $)
• Torque 1.5.2 Game Engine - $150
• Torque Showtool pro - comes free w/ Torque 1.5.2
• Visual C++ 2008 Express - free
• WinMerge - free

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The costs to break into the indie game industry are mainly just one’s own labor. (Although, that there is a considerable expense!)

A big thank-you to anyone who has contributed to the open source tools in that list! They’re much appreciated. And great quality! Thanks!

Here’s a new tile set. I’m calling it “Thatch”.

With this tile set I’m aiming for a realistic, detailed look to the ground cover. But a look that’s still clean, and not confusing in terms of the gameplay.

Unlike the other tile sets, I’m creating some of the textures in this one myself. Fun!