Archive for Tag: testgame

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    So this month's edition of testgame.exe: Making the Adventure (the making-an-adventure-game monthly article that everyone knows and loves) is gonna seem pretty run of the mill in most aspects.  First

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    Greetings, faithful readers, and welcome to this month's edition of textgame.exe: Making the Adventure. Now, I know what you're thinking.  "Oh, that Lizo," I hear you say, "She never does any work on

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    So it’s now been exactly two years since I started writing testgame.exe: Making the Adventure for GameCola. The years have just flown by, haven’t they? I thought that, this month, I’d take a look back at the early days of testgame. No, I’m not just going to repeat the same sort of thing I did for the January issue, in which I compared early production stills in the game to what the game looks like now.

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    So one thing I've discovered during the past month is that it reeeeally helps to have a plan for what you're doing.  It's a big motivator, let me tell you.  For example, since the last installment

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a young reader (or was it an old reader?), named...I forget his name. Let's just call him Reader. Well, Reader lived by himself in a log cabin in

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    I love testgame, that I do, and there are a few things that pop into my mind as I continue to work on it (sporadically).  Allow me to ramble a little. Point number 1: This is one heck of a project. 

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    Hey everyone, it's 2007! That's right, another year has gone by, and my baby testgame is that much older.  In commemoration of the birth of a new year, I thought it would be interesting to do a littl

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    So I know what you're thinking:  You're wondering why you even bother to look at/read this testgame article anymore, because that darned lazy Lizo just never does all that much new stuff.  Well have

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    So here we are again.  Another month, another exciting trip to adventure game land with Lizo. If you remember, last month's edition of testgame.exe: Making the Adventure included a poll for a critica

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    Hey, remember waaaay back, like, a month ago or two ago, when testgame.exe: Making the Adventure and the updated game that went along with it had actual new things in it?  Like, new things with inter