Author Archives: omatase
Developing Video Games in 1970 vs Now — 40 Years Since Atari’s Founding
Wow, Atari is now more than 40 years old! The NES launched when I was 6 and was my first exposure to video games so I was never a big Atari player. In spite of that, I recognize that the history of … Continue reading
Game Design – Balancing Act
Building a game with complex character attributes is a challenge to say the least. I’m sure we all noticed that although Diablo III was just released by Blizzard a few months ago, they had a version of the game 2 … Continue reading
Watermint Studios Presents: Independent Game Developer Tools
Welcome indie developers Watermint Studios has been working tirelessly these past few months to bring you a tool that we have been using for almost a year now. This tool has done wonders for previous art acquisition issues we were … Continue reading
Watermint Studios’ Earn a Mint Program – Concept to Company Finalist
Watermint Studios’ Earn a Mint Program was selected as one of nine finalists for the 2012 Concept to Company digital media contest. Concept to Company was looking for a company with a digital media idea with the best potential. Among … Continue reading
Watermint Studios’ Upcoming Online Game – Battleschool – New Management Screen Mockups
Battleschool, Watermint Studios’ upcoming online game continues to move forward. Most recently we have been working on the game’s management screens and after a lot of challenges with layout concerns we finally have arrived at a new set of mockups. … Continue reading
Newest Posts From Our Artist Community
We have some really cool new posts coming in from artists in our artist community and there are several amazing uploads. Again, as always, this decision is going to be a tough one. For those that don’t know there are … Continue reading
Earn a Mint Round 2 First Submissions
We’re barely into our second Earn a Mint session and already we have some fantastic submissions. This post is going to brief. Just want to show the first couple of entries and make this post available so that we can … Continue reading
New Website Updates For Our Beloved Community
As we here at Watermint Studios prepare for the release of our first game – Battleschool (we’re hoping beta is about 5 months out) more and more features / upgrades have been needed in our corporate site. The latest is … Continue reading
Battleschool – A First Look!
We have our first viewable Battleschool screen mock-ups hot off the press from our UI designer! This art is still conceptual and for the most part doesn’t contain the art we expect to use in the final version of the … Continue reading
Battleschool UI
For the past 4 months or so I have been working feverishly on Battleschool‘s UI. I’ve talked about the decision process I went through for choosing a front end technology. I ultimately decided on HTML 5 + Javascript. Let me … Continue reading
