Welcome
My name’s RefresherTowel and this is my little online oasis. I’m a solo indie game developer living in Australia. Check out my current WIP Alchementalist and my previous game Spaceslingers. I make stuff in a game engine called GMS2 which I’ve used on and off for close to 15 years now, but I dabble in other engines from time to time.
Games
Alchementalist
Status: Current WIP
Spaceslingers
Status: Released
Announcements & News
‘Spaceslingers’ is the trajectory game for puzzle-loving space fans — Review
The awesome Elizabeth Howell (@howellspace) recently wrote a review for Spaceslingers at space.com. Here’s a snippet: …In a way, “Spaceslingers” teaches us a subtle lesson about the real world of spaceflight. In the early 1960s, launching rockets was something we struggled to achieve, and even today the possibility of rocket failure makes us feel tense […]
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Personal Blog
Recounting A Successful Failure (The Spaceslingers Post-Mortem)
This is the part two of my original post A Pre-Post Mortem About Marketing, if you haven’t read that, I highly recommend you do so as I won’t be covering the same material here and a lot of people found the original post helpful. So what does a successful failure look like? Well, first, let’s talk about success. I had two pretty clear goals in mind when it came to launching Spaceslingers. […]
On Experimentation in Procedural Generation
Wherein I explain what I’ve been doing with the PCG in GML series lately and give some insight into the behind the scenes task of making PCG.
Procedural Generation in GMS #7: To Perturb A Room (Dungeon Generation)
In this entry, we learn about perturbing rooms to generate a dungeon layout!
Procedural Generation in GMS #6: A* Is Born (Pathfinding’s Greatest Hits)
In this entry we explore the fascinating world of pathfinding, culminating in a fully featured A* pathfinding algorithm that takes tile costs into account!
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