- For Sparta - My new GAME! - 27 February 2021
We are very excited to announce our new game: For Sparta! You probably heard about the Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans stood between one million Persians and the fate of Greece. Well.. 299 already fell and now only you can stop them in For Sparta, a fast-paced single-screen arena roguelike. For Sparta features +200 gameplay-changing items, more than 40 unique enemies and a fluid arcade-like top-down pixel art combat. The game was developed by two brothers, from Gamecraft Studios and is coming on this March 22nd to Steam for $1.99. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1490180/For_Sparta/
- Rogue Summoner Release - 4 September 2020
Rogue Summoner is the newest game from Dan Zaidan! And Rogue Summoner has just been released into the world! Go get it while it's hot. :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1355510/Rogue_Summoner/ All about Rogue Summoner Rogue Summoner is a roguelike about summoning creatures to fight for you. It's a unique blend between turn-based tactics, roguelikes, strategy, auto battlers and even chess! After you create your strategy, the enemies will do their move, then, your creatures, each according to their behavior. To become a Rogue Summoner you must master each monster's behavior and use them creatively in combat. Check out this developer commentary video: Enjoy! Dan Zaidan https://store.steampowered.com/app/1355510/Rogue_Summoner/
- Every Step to develop a game from scratch and release it on Steam - 5 October 2019
Hello everyone! In the course of 24 livestreams, we development a game from scratch, going from having absolutely nothing to having a game released on Steam! In these 24 livestreams (a total of 81 hours of development), there is a LOT of good information for you, so I decided to organize it and list the main topics discussed throughout the development. Kind of a step by step of what we did to develop the entire game. Hopefully it can help you and point you in the right direction! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRN-mXLInLY Steps taken to create the game: Episode 1: Planning what to make Making a "Hello World" to test Win32 Entry point Opening a Window First version of the Software Renderer Input Timings Episode 2: First gameplay prototype Start organizing the code Simple AABB collision Full sweep collision (ball vs blocks) Episode 3: Gameplay experimentation Structure to add new levels…
- Source Code Walkthrough - 28 September 2019
Hello everybody! The game we have have created FROM SCRATCH on a live stream was released on Steam last week! To celebrate it, I have opened the source code of the ENTIRE game to the PUBLIC DOMAIN so you can download it to learn, modify, copy, make your own games, whatever you want! Download the Source Code for FREE: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1155530/Source_Code__Break_Arcade_Games_Out/ To help you get the big picture, I have made this video talking about the code, the structure and the basics of how it works. I hope you like it! Watch the Entire Development here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Ej6SUky1357r-Lqf_nogZWHssXP-hvH
- New Update: Bug Fixes - 25 September 2019
Hello everyone! Another update to fix some bugs! Thanks to people commenting on the discussions on the Steam page, I was able to see a bug that happened when you got the ball behind the enemy in the Pong level, and had the Strong Blocks powerdown. The game would freeze and not be able to play anymore. You guys are awesome! Thanks for letting me know! Sorry for the inconvenience, I hope this patch fixes it 100% for everybody! :) If there's anything else, just talk to me! :) Thanks! Dan Zaidan
- First Update! - 22 September 2019
Hello! I am super happy with the reviews so far! It's awesome that you are enjoying the game as well! :) Following some of your suggestions, I did an update for the game. Here is what I changed: * Better sound effect when the comet starts * Faster moving Power blocks * Larger Power blocks * More evident Power block animation I hope you like it! Remember that the game is 100% open-source! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1155530/Source_Code__Break_Arcade_Games_Out/ You can also watch the ENTIRE development! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Ej6SUky1357r-Lqf_nogZWHssXP-hvH See you next time! ;)
- GAME RELEASE! - 20 September 2019
It's been quite a journey everyone, but now we have reached THE END! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145020/Break_Arcade_Games_Out/?beta=0 About two months ago, I started developing a game from scratch in C with the extra challenge of live streaming the entire process. I have been super happy with the reception of the live streams on Twitch, the recordings on Youtube and the project on the Handmade Network. What started out as a small game just to have fun, learn and teach, ended as a full release on Steam! I could not be happier with the way it turned out. To celebrate it, I shared the source code for the game as a FREE download. The source code is dual licensed: public domain and a "do-whatever-you-want-with-it" license, so you can use it to learn, modify, create your own commercial games, anything at all! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1155530/Source_Code__Break_Arcade_Games_…
- Game RELEASE DATE and Livestream! - 16 September 2019
Hello everybody! Break Arcade Games out has a release date! The game will be released on Steam for FREE on September 20th 2019. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145020/Break_Arcade_Games_Out/ Not only that, but the source code will also be available for free on release! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1155530/Source_Code__Break_Arcade_Games_Out/ You can watch the ENTIRE development process: from the very first line of code to the Steam release here on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTwh9oHcs1w&list=PL7Ej6SUky1357r-Lqf_nogZWHssXP-hvH There will one more live stream: the LAST livestream in this series, where I release the game on Steam, play it, review the development and have a lot of fun. You can watch that on Twitch on September 20th 2019 at 1:30 PM BRT: https://www.twitch.tv/danzaidan I hope to see you then!
- Free Source Code and Live Streams! - 15 September 2019
The game release is really close! With the game done, I have decided to release its source code along with the game as a FREE DLC. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1155530/Source_Code__Break_Arcade_Games_Out/ Since the game was written from scratch, you can learn EVERYTHING it took to make this game, from the beginnings of launching a windows and displaying graphics, to playing music, multithreaded systems, pasring config files, gameplay and everything else! The game was entirely written on a live stream, this means you can follow the development with source code and learn from it! This videos shows the highlights of the first episode: The ENTIRE development is available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Ej6SUky1357r-Lqf_nogZWHssXP-hvH The source code license is supposed to be as permissive as possible. So you do whatever you want with it! From learning, to modifying and…
- The GAME is FINISHED! - 13 September 2019
Hello everyone! When I started this game I had one major challenge: creating an entire game from scratch (no engines or libraries) and live stream the WHOLE development! I had no idea the game would be released on Steam! So I'm super happy the way it turned out. In the live streams, a lot of people showed up, helping me out, giving ideas and suggestions for the game. It was a really cool and challenging experience for me. Yesterday, I have live streamed the last development part of the game: we did a last polishing pass, fixed several bugs, tweaked the gameplay and other things. You can watch that live stream here: And now, that live stream finishes the series where you can watch a game being created from NOTHING all the way to the release on Steam! I have learned a lot, had a lot of fun and hopefully you can learn a lot about game development as well by watching the "sausage being made…
- Game Development Live Stream: Polishing the Game for Release! - 6 September 2019
Hello everyone! We had another wonderful stream. We have just a few things to polish before the big release on Steam! This game was created from scratch entirely on a live stream using the C programming language, so you can watch everything from the very first line of code! Check out the Livestream! You can also watch the ENTIRE development process here: https://www.youtube.com/DanZaidan You can download the game and the source code for free in this link: https://danzaidan.itch.io/break-arcade-games-out You can watch me live and help me make the game here: https://www.twitch.tv/danzaidan This stream, we changed several small things in the game like the speed in some levels and some small bugs. We also have nice conversations about game development and programming :) Someone had the great suggestion of adding an option to change the mouse sensitivity, so I specified a config and parsed i…
- Development Live Stream on Thursday - 2 September 2019
Hello everybody! Just dropping by to say that I'll go live on Twitch this Thursday (Sep 5th) at 8PM BRT to add the finishing touches to the game! https://www.twitch.tv/danzaidan Come see and help me release the game! :D https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35693360%2F1f389eec343f7ea762fc8db6a712423d7ae7b7ff.gif
- Making Of the Entire Development - 26 August 2019
Hi folks! In case you don't know, this game was developed entirely on a live steam! This means you can watch everything being created in the game, from the very first line of code! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35693360%2F1f389eec343f7ea762fc8db6a712423d7ae7b7ff.gif If case you are interested on learning more about game development, you can check out the development live streams! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTwh9oHcs1w&list=PL7Ej6SUky1357r-Lqf_nogZWHssXP-hvH&index=2 In case you just want a "best moments" kind of video, I prepared a highlights for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKWrGbSBZ_8 But if you watch the full development, there are small details you will learn that is hard to learn otherwise, even in a tutorial! For example, sometimes, you have to type something quick and dirty just to help you debug something then you go back and make a nice se…
- Preparing for Release! - 23 August 2019
Hello everybody! I can't believe this game that I created entirely on live streams is getting released! It was an awesome journey where I learned and taught a lot. I hope the development process was useful to you and hopefully you will enjoy the final result as well! :D Check out the game on the Steam store: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145020/Break_Arcade_Games_Out https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35693360%2F3d5aa883731c3364a50eb354d9e5b48a743f8f64.gif Check out the trailer to see all the features we managed to add on the live streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5GXrOei4oU About the game What if Breakout was the only arcade game people could make? Modern take on an older game Enjoy the classic arcade game Breakout with vibrant colors, modern but nostalgic music, tight controls, screenshakes, crazy animations and lots of particles. Break Arca…
