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Mar 2020: "Oh, are you in Steel?"
Mar 2020: "Oh, are you in Steel?"

Some musings on conventional industry wisdom, spurred on by the process of preparing features for the chopping block for the sake of making our release timelines.

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Catherine KimportMarch 24, 2020
Feb 2020: Breakdown of an Art Revision
Feb 2020: Breakdown of an Art Revision

An analysis of why we chose to revamp our art style most of the way through development, and why we went in the direction we did.

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Catherine KimportFebruary 24, 2020
Jan 2020: Palette Swaps, Modernized
Jan 2020: Palette Swaps, Modernized

How we used math to expedite and standardize a game-wide artistic style change

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Catherine KimportJanuary 25, 2020
Dec 2019: Resolutions
Dec 2019: Resolutions

Cathy shares her professional resolutions for 2020.

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Catherine KimportDecember 30, 2019
Nov 2019: One Year Wiser
Nov 2019: One Year Wiser

The things we learned after surviving our first year of showing our game on the national convention circuit

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Catherine KimportNovember 27, 2019
Oct 2019: Linear Algebra for Sprite Coloring
Oct 2019: Linear Algebra for Sprite Coloring

How I learned to stop worrying and love matrices

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Catherine KimportOctober 22, 2019
Sept 2019: Multi-touch Tutorials, Part 2 — Successes
Sept 2019: Multi-touch Tutorials, Part 2 — Successes

Part two of our retrospective on our multi-touch tutorials, where we recount some of our successes.

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Catherine KimportSeptember 29, 2019
Aug 2019: Multi-touch Tutorials — Four Pitfalls
Aug 2019: Multi-touch Tutorials — Four Pitfalls

Part one of two, where we examine some of the obstacles we ran into for the particular challenge of trying to teach players a brand-new multi-touch interface.

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Catherine KimportAugust 7, 2019
July 2019: When Real Feels Wrong
July 2019: When Real Feels Wrong

A simple question of gravity leads us to examine why “realistic” settings aren’t necessarily the ones that lead to the most engaging gameplay

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Catherine KimportJuly 2, 2019
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