Archive - Nullsson

Revving Up: Exploring Life Beyond Game Development

Sharing thoughts and lessons learned from pursuing my passions in life

Jun 9 •

March 2024

Brainroll Postmortem Part 5: Assets, Serialization & Next Steps

How serialization and assets are handled within Brainroll as well as some notes on what I plan on doing in the future.

Mar 21 •

January 2024

Brainroll Postmortem Part 4: Movement, Ropes & Undo

Brainroll is a sokoban-style puzzle game where the main mechanic is that you slide on ice. Traditionally in Sokoban games, each level is presented as a…

Jan 18 •

November 2023

Brainroll Postmortem Part 3: Engine

It is finally time to talk a bit about the thing I feel most comfortable with, the tech that powers Brainroll. I plan on touching a bit on the stack…

Nov 27, 2023 •

October 2023

Brainroll Postmortem Part 2: Art & Assets

When I was young I was never good at a lot of different things. When it was time to choose what direction I wanted to take my life I decided to focus on…

Oct 27, 2023 •

Brainroll Postmortem Part 1: History, Planning & Design

Maybe it is too soon to make a proper postmortem but I still feel like there are enough thoughts and lessons learned in process of making this game that…

Oct 1, 2023 •

June 2023

Bringing Dreams to Reality

Thoughts about finishing an indie game.

Jun 6, 2023 •

April 2023

Breaking through limitations

How I decided to give back control to the player in a limited playing-field.

Apr 15, 2023 •

March 2023

Brainroll feedback

This devlog is a bit late as I did ship version 0.6.1 of Brainroll about 3 weeks ago. Version 0.7.0 is dropping any day now which contains a bunch of…

Mar 14, 2023 •

Curious heart & digital mind

The first few years of my career

Mar 3, 2023 •

January 2023

How I make puzzle games

During the last three weeks I have not spent too much time on just programming and instead addressed a topic of game development that I’ve just like…

Jan 13, 2023 •

December 2022

UI Subsystem Iteration

The title already spoiled the subject as we’re going to dive into the UI system that has been implemented into my engine. In this post I will outline…

Dec 2, 2022 •

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