After almost 7 years working at meteocontrol, I decided to take a little break from regular software development and make one of my long term dreams come true: Developing a surfing game and releasing it on Steam. I thought about making a game like this ever since I was sixteen and learning to windsurf on…
This year was my fifth time participating in the Global Game Jam and my third time being at my favourite jam site at WERK1 in Munich. Every time I’m going there I’m surprised at how rapidly the area is growing. This year there was a huge new skyscraper being built and also a giant Ferris…
This year was the first time that there was a Global Game Jam in Augsburg. Wildfuchs Interactive, a very young game studio located near the city centre, was hosting. There were just 5 members of the studio and me attending, so it was very different from bigger events. We could just make one game and…
Bugs are usually a developer’s worst enemy. But sometimes they can be quite funny. I uploaded two recordings of bizarre game failures from an old alpha version of Cell Tune:
After months of passionate game development I’m excited to give you a first impression on my new game Cell Tune. Cell Tune is a life simulation game. You design creatures on a microscopic level and let them fight with other organisms. Building your creatures is easy: There are five different cell types that you can combine…
Niklas Riewald 