Ben Samara

Game Designer
Art and Programming Generalist

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Text-Based Game (update #2)

Uploaded November 19th, 2021

I’ve recently reached a large milestone for my text-based game and would like to provide a bit of information about how the development has been going. I recently finished all of the scenes that I had planned out in my outline and feel as if I am in a spot where it is a viable game. My next steps are to move on to testing and continue...

School Projects

Uploaded November 19th, 2021

This blog post was made mostly just to move some of the information that was on the portfolio page for my school projects to a separate page, so that if people are interested to learn more, they can, but are not otherwise exposed to that extra info if they just want to see the finished pieces themselves...

Video Animation (update #2)

Uploaded November 18th, 2021

Over the past week, I went back and finished up my Video Animation that I started in school. Using Adobe After Effects, I put together all the digital images I had made during school and finished up all the scenes I had planned. Most of the process was straight-forward, I found, I had very few instances where I had to learn...

General Update #4

Uploaded November 11th, 2021

I’d like to provide an update on what I’ve been doing on a regular basis. I’m going to break it down by my scheduled tasks.

First Week:

Text-Based Game Design:

Website (update #1)

Uploaded November 11th, 2021

I went off my schedule for about 2 weeks and have been working on finishing my website instead. I felt like it was reasonable to delay my regular routine a bit to get my site up and ready to present.

I was primarily just trying to recreate the...

General Update #3

Uploaded September 20th, 2021

Here's a general update about what I've been working on lately. The past 4-5 months, I've been following a repeating bi-weekly schedule in which I do a different task each day. It's similar to a school schedule, in that I cover a lot of different ground of different subjects. What specifically I've been...

About This Blog

This blog will explain some of the processes behind my projects in depth. If you'd like to find out how or why I did a certain project, this is the place.

I will also be talking about what I've been learning, my methods of learning, and my general thoughts on game design, programming, and art.

Thanks for checking it out.

Categories

General Updates:

General Update #4

General Update #3

General Update #2

General Update #1

Project Processes:

Text-Based Game (update #2)

School Projects

Video Animation (update #2)

Website (update #1)

Sketches (update #1)

Text-Based Game (update #1)

Video Animation (update #1)
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