Bretton Hamilton
Game Jam - Super Skelly Belly
#GameJam #SuperSkellyBelly #itchio Origin: Super Skelly Belly is a game that came out of the 24hr Forsberg Game Jam. The theme was...
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Bretton Hamilton
Aug 16, 20171 min read
Prototype - Booty Battles
Origin: Booty Battles is a local multiplayer game. It was designed as a prototype for a larger top-down pirate game I have been thinking...
Bretton Hamilton
May 17, 201712 min read
Virtual Reality - Picking a New User's First Experience
Each VR experience acts as a portal into a new world. A user’s first few encounters with this technology should be carefully selected to...
Bretton Hamilton
Apr 15, 20173 min read
Virtual Reality - The Evolution of Interfaces
The ability for early humans to tell stories and share information was necessary to our survival as a species. Spoken word is limited by...
Bretton Hamilton
Apr 13, 20172 min read
Visiting Stockholm
I just returned to Belgium from Sweden, where I met some fantastic developers and explored what the city of Stockholm has to offer! Best...
Bretton Hamilton
Apr 1, 20172 min read
Bit Bowling - Our First Public Demo
In Bit Bowling you play as a farmer who must "lead" his flock of sheep back down the mountainside. Not every sheep will survive the...
Bretton Hamilton
Mar 25, 20172 min read
Bit Bowling - Leading the Player
In Bit Bowling you play as a farmer who must "lead" his flock of sheep back down the mountainside. Not every sheep will survive the...
Bretton Hamilton
Feb 18, 20172 min read
Bit Bowling - Humble Origins
My final months in Australia were focused on immersing myself in new and challenging directions before I would have to make the ultimate...
Bretton Hamilton
Feb 4, 20172 min read
GGJ 2017 - Across the Pond
Global Game Jam 2017 Last week I participated in this years Global Game Jam! I had just landed after a 22hr trip from Australia and had...
Bretton Hamilton
Jan 25, 20173 min read
Reflection on 2016
I'm back from a long break in maintaining this blog. After Unite and GCAP in Melbourne I was swamped in projects while preparing for a...
Bretton Hamilton
Nov 4, 20164 min read
Game Convention - Melbourne!
UNITE 2016 Train Conductor World Paper Prototype Simon Joslin gave a talk about how paper prototyping was used to help design and refine...
Bretton Hamilton
Oct 29, 20162 min read
Color Tag - Action Charts
Color Tag is a fast-paced local multiplayer game of hide-and-seek tag where the characters need to hide in plain sight by camouflaging...
Bretton Hamilton
Oct 22, 20163 min read
Color Tag - Design Like Water
Jacob McKee-Wright, a colleague of mine, recently pulled me aside with a request. He works at the Northern Sydney Institute (NSI) as a...
Bretton Hamilton
Oct 15, 20164 min read
Virtual Reality - The Challenges We Face - Part 3
If you haven't already, I highly recommend you read Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series! Otherwise, enjoy! Virtual Reality may seem...
Bretton Hamilton
Oct 7, 20163 min read
Virtual Reality - The Challenges We Face - Part 2
If you haven't already, I highly recommend you read Part 1 of this blog series! Otherwise, enjoy! I'm standing at a cross-roads now. I've...
Bretton Hamilton
Sep 30, 20162 min read
Virtual Reality - The Challenges We Face - Part 1
My first VR experience was playing Team Fortress 2 at an Australian game convention in 2014. The line was long; the experience was...
Bretton Hamilton
Sep 23, 20167 min read
Game Jams - Twenty Games!
One of my proudest accomplishments as an indie developer is how often I participate in game jams! While the games made at a jam are...
Bretton Hamilton
Sep 16, 20165 min read
How I Applied Game Design to Teaching
In the Australian Spring of 2014, I began work at Evocca. Richard Hill, a close friend, and the first developer I met in Australia...
Bretton Hamilton
Sep 10, 20162 min read
Mars - Getting Started
The original concept came from a small design challenge I posed for myself wherein I attempted to come up with gameplay and narrative...
Bretton Hamilton
Aug 26, 20161 min read
Adventure Pals - Kickstarter Success!
The Adventure Pals Kickstarter has been a huge success! We reached our goal with the support of 670 Backers! That's fantastic! So what's...
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