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I’ve mentioned before that I want to give players the ability to re-map/bind the controls for GRF. I created a control scheme that I think works for the game, but surely many other players will disagree! Assuming any other players ever play GRF, that is. So, I went about trying to figure out how to…

In my last post, I mentioned wanting to add some more visual indicators for the ball carrier by creating an outline around the goblin with the ball. I didn’t want to have to add an outline to each sprite frame in every ball carrying animation, and switch between them and so on, so I decided…

It’s been something like three weeks since my last blog post, and I have spent the entirety of that time working on a tutorial for players to play in order to “learn by doing.” The tutorial goes through the basics of how to play GRF, walking the player through step-by-step on how to move, switch…

Now that Goblin Rules Football has a steam page up, I’m starting to “fine tune” what is in the game currently instead of just adding random content. The first thing I wanted to do was to make it so all of my UI is navigable with a game pad. The in-game UI worked well with…

Last post, I mentioned that I was going to make a trailer for my game. I did! It only took a few hours and I did it all using free tools and free (Create Commons) music. Can you tell this is the first time I’ve ever edited video of any kind??? Wow, isn’t it amazing?…

I mentioned before that I wanted to start working on adding Goblin Rules Football to Steam, and I did! You can find the steam store page here. Doesn’t it just look amazing!? I know, I know, surely a true pro created that page and not just a game dev hobbyist with a spare $100. Would…

In my previous post, I said that one of my next tasks was to create a new UI for the title screen. Here’s what I made! If you’re looking at that and thinking “wow, looks like a free flash game UI,” well, that’s probably because all I did was reuse a bunch of free assets…

In my last post, I mentioned wanting to add a way to pause the game and to make certain phases “timeout” if the player doesn’t take an action without a set time. And, well, I did that! First, I had to make an “escape menu” that is brought up whenever the player presses the Esc…

In my previous post I mentioned doing more work on the single player AI and maybe difficulty settings. I did none of that this week. Instead, I did a few other things. First, I created a new blue shell power up to be used in the game: Rocket propelled, homing bottles. See them in action…

There isn’t really a big “update” or change to the game to talk about in this post, but I feel like I am committed to making a weekly post for GRF now. In my last post, I mentioned that the AI needed a lot of tweaks and that I was “beating them pretty badly.” So,…