Bretton Hamilton
Mars - Design Goals
Mars is a visceral side-scroller with an emphasis on violence. This project is an attempt to explore gamer psychology and habit to tell...
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Bretton Hamilton
Aug 12, 20165 min read
Slice of Life - Work & Life Balance
I planned only to write these Slice of Life blogs once every other month or so, but I thought I'd share my experience with grappling with...
Bretton Hamilton
Aug 7, 20166 min read
Challenge - Designing a Hearthstone Card
I'm a huge fan of Blizzard and Collectible Card Games. Hearthstone is Blizzard's successful exploration of this genre. I've been working...
Bretton Hamilton
Jul 30, 20163 min read
Slice of Life - Sports & Fitness
Hello, my name is Bretton Hamilton. I'm an experience designer with games being my medium of choice. I am a strong believer in throwing...
Bretton Hamilton
Jul 23, 20161 min read
Adventure Pals - Now on Kickstarter!
The Adventure Pals is now on Kickstarter! The Adventure Pals is an epic adventure platformer fuelled by imagination. Enter a gorgeous and...
Bretton Hamilton
Jul 23, 20163 min read
Dungeon Sandwich - Reflection
Working on Dungeon Sandwich has been an absolute adventure from start to finish. Kongregate has been a pleasure to work with, and it's...
Bretton Hamilton
Jul 2, 20162 min read
A Strong Case for Bachelor's Degrees
In the game industry, like most creative industries, it is common knowledge that a good portfolio, proper networking, and passion are...
Bretton Hamilton
Jun 24, 20162 min read
Dungeon Sandwich - Animating Monsters
This week I've been crunching over all that goes bump in the dark! What is a dungeon that isn't infested by monsters? Behold! Eyebat This...
Bretton Hamilton
Jun 18, 20162 min read
Dungeon Sandwich - Halfway Through!
We are officially two weeks deep into Dungeon Sandwich, and we’re right on schedule! The character is fully animated and can run around...
Bretton Hamilton
Jun 10, 20163 min read
Adventure Pals – Concluding the First QA Milestone
This week the Quality Assurance cycle ends for our first batch of testers. Overall it was a success! In the beginning, we had a team of...
Bretton Hamilton
May 27, 20162 min read
Dungeon Sandwich – Redesigning for Wider Audiences
It took several weeks of discussion with John, our contact from Kongregate, for us to settle on a game direction that we could all...
Bretton Hamilton
May 21, 20162 min read
Adventure Pals - Australian Internship and Work Experience Laws
As mentioned in one of my previous posts, I was brought on-board the Adventure Pals project several months back to do some level design...
Bretton Hamilton
May 12, 20163 min read
Space Crunch - Unreal Game Jam
Overview: This past weekend was a Game Jam at the Northern Sydney Institute. As this was my 18th Game Jam in the past three year period I...
Bretton Hamilton
Apr 29, 20163 min read
Adventure Pals - QA and Me!
A few weeks ago I was given the opportunity to step up as QA Lead for Super Adventure Pals. Part of this entailed building a QA...
Bretton Hamilton
Apr 3, 20162 min read
TÖKEN - New People & Places
Part of TÖKEN's design overhaul has led us to need a variety of characters. I'll spare the reasoning and explanation for this for another...
Bretton Hamilton
Mar 19, 20161 min read
Dev Diary - Dungeon Sandwich Pitch!
For the past several months I've had a few concepts for game ideas in mind. Dungeon Sandwich initially developed into a vague idea when I...
Bretton Hamilton
Feb 22, 20162 min read
Unreal in the Australian Design Desert
When Halfbrick announced that it had laid off its last two designers, with no intention of replacing them, I feared that the gesture...
Bretton Hamilton
Feb 14, 20163 min read
TÖKEN - Reviving a Game on the Brink!
TÖKEN was born one night in mid-August. By late September, a team had been assembled and development had begun. My role on the project...
Bretton Hamilton
Feb 6, 20164 min read
Thoughts on Indie Game Development
Let me preface this information by saying that I have been developing and analyzing indie games for the past several years. I really went...
Bretton Hamilton
Jan 31, 20162 min read
Challenge - Designing a New Chess Piece
Origin: Chess is a game that has been played for many hundreds of years. The rules of chess are often always the same, manipulate pieces...
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