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[Bending_the_rules]

Check out my new blog at blogger. You can find game design ideas, their implementation in Gamemaker 8, reviews (yet to come) and everything with the term 'game' in it. Are you game? Check the growing number of articles and comment what you want to see..
Also you can join as a co-writer or guest writer if you have got something new, fresh or interesting to offer on all this topics...
Also included Atom feed through Feedburner and Update by email .. So you are not gonna miss anything..

Edited by Bending_the_rules, 15 May 2012 - 11:43 AM.

[Bending_the_rules]

Hey, I'm adding one new article every day, without sacrificing on the quality and overall importance of the post...

One quality article each day without a break... That's my promise...

Visit my blog once to see it in your own eyes...

Also I'm open for guest writing at any good blog or site, as long as they accept to do any one of these:

1. Write a good article on gamemaker or/and game design for my blog in return...
2.Give a small advertise of my blog on their frontpage for a few days...

Check out how to add easy motion planning capabilities to you game without using pro-only functions, my new article...

(This is very useful for GM:HTML5 games as it doesn't have in-built Motion Planning functions)...

Also you can subscribe to my blog here through feedburner.

All comments are highly appreciated...

Edited by Bending_the_rules, 06 May 2012 - 07:43 PM.

[Bending_the_rules]

As I told, one update each day...
So, here you get:

1. Basic motion planning

2. Advanced motion planning

Also, here's my blog image:


and my banner:

[Bending_the_rules]

One more update today...

A post on How to generate random sine curves for roads in top-down or fake 3D racing games ....

This is gonna save a lot of time during prototyping and alpha-stage of racing games..

[Bending_the_rules]

Here's a review on "Neon BBXD HD"....

The first indie game review on my blog

Edited by Bending_the_rules, 03 June 2012 - 02:00 AM.

[JuurianChi]

Looks interesting, but the presentation could use a bit of improvement.
Instead of blogger maybe you should try wordpress.

[Bending_the_rules]

Looks interesting, but the presentation could use a bit of improvement.
Instead of blogger maybe you should try wordpress.

Can you please suggest the type of presentation improvement?

And why should I consider changing my blog hosting service (Give me any good reason and I may)?

[Bending_the_rules]

One new interesting post: Storing two integers in one integer variable...

[Super Guy]

The content is good but it seems to be pretty slow to load and some of the colors sorta clash.

[JuurianChi]

Loads quickly for me. But the design has some flaws.

- Never use comic sans if you are publishing serious content that serious people should be reading.
-The colors greatly clash, if you can't some up with a color set that you don't think works, just copy one from another more established site.

[Bending_the_rules]

Loads quickly for me. But the design has some flaws.

- Never use comic sans if you are publishing serious content that serious people should be reading.
-The colors greatly clash, if you can't some up with a color set that you don't think works, just copy one from another more established site.

The recent posts are not written in Comic Sans by the way. I thought they were pretty cool. But looks like, maybe I will need to change it back.

About, is black text on white background ok for most users?

[Bending_the_rules]

The content is good but it seems to be pretty slow to load and some of the colors sorta clash.

I don't really think it's slow: Yeah, it's a bit slow with loading images from external sites in "You may like..." section.
But I don't think that's a major distraction.

I am seriously concerned with the colours now, I am surely going to change it.

[Jobo]

Absolutely unreadable.
I don't want to spend another second on that site.

To be taken as extremely valuable feedback, not to be underestimated.

[Bending_the_rules]

Absolutely unreadable.
I don't want to spend another second on that site.

To be taken as extremely valuable feedback, not to be underestimated.

Ok, I have finally changed the "look" of my blog. I think you guys should be happy now. Do me a favor and check it back again.

[YellowAfterlife]

Suggestions:
1. Don't use Comic Sans font. Considering that your blog is serious, but not too serious, it would be appropriate to use Arial or Verdana.
2. Be careful with colours that you pick for fonts. People will have to read them, after all. Replace magenta #ff00ff by something less eye-burning.
3. Same colours, but on GMC side. Do you know that some people are using light theme? Reading most of your coloured posts in that requires selecting the text to be able to read it. Colours, readable on both themes, include red, green (not lime, just green), blue, orange, purple, grey. Never bright green, cyan, yellow (switch to light theme and try to read first line of your signature for an example).
4. Add some images to explain things, where appropriate. A picture is worth of thousand words, and a long 'monoblock' paragraph of text will be much more pleasant to look at as an coloured image.
Nice blog, overall. I've bookmarked it earlier, and am checking it time to time.

[Jobo]

Ok, I have finally changed the "look" of my blog. I think you guys should be happy now. Do me a favor and check it back again.

It's better, but still not good. Follow YellowAfterlife's suggestions, and also make the background static (follow the scrolling).

3. Same colours, but on GMC side. Do you know that some people are using light theme? Reading most of your coloured posts in that requires selecting the text to be able to read it.

I am using the light theme, and I did indeed have to select to text to read it. Quite annoying.

[Bending_the_rules]

Suggestions:
1. Don't use Comic Sans font. Considering that your blog is serious, but not too serious, it would be appropriate to use Arial or Verdana.
2. Be careful with colours that you pick for fonts. People will have to read them, after all. Replace magenta #ff00ff by something less eye-burning.
3. Same colours, but on GMC side. Do you know that some people are using light theme? Reading most of your coloured posts in that requires selecting the text to be able to read it. Colours, readable on both themes, include red, green (not lime, just green), blue, orange, purple, grey. Never bright green, cyan, yellow (switch to light theme and try to read first line of your signature for an example).
4. Add some images to explain things, where appropriate. A picture is worth of thousand words, and a long 'monoblock' paragraph of text will be much more pleasant to look at as an coloured image.
Nice blog, overall. I've bookmarked it earlier, and am checking it time to time.

Fixed according to the first three suggestions.

As you told in the 4th suggestion, I will try to add more related images as possible. But you probably won't find the sort of flashy images; they will be minimalistic and just to support the related discussion.

More suggestions are welcome...

Edited by Bending_the_rules, 24 June 2012 - 03:26 AM.

[Bending_the_rules]

Ok, I have finally changed the "look" of my blog. I think you guys should be happy now. Do me a favor and check it back again.

It's better, but still not good. Follow YellowAfterlife's suggestions, and also make the background static (follow the scrolling).

3. Same colours, but on GMC side. Do you know that some people are using light theme? Reading most of your coloured posts in that requires selecting the text to be able to read it.

I am using the light theme, and I did indeed have to select to text to read it. Quite annoying.

It is unfortunate that you have to go through such problems and I have tried my best to solve the problem.

But, I think making backgrounds static is a matter of personal taste and surely, there are lots of people around who won't like it.

To be true, personally I don't like that style and most of the blogs I have seen (even the ones with the tutorial of how to do it) don't use it.

Any other suggestion is welcome...

Edited by Bending_the_rules, 24 June 2012 - 03:25 AM.

[Nocturne]

Could you please stop double posting? There is an edit button to be used and a 48 hour bumping rule to be obeyed...

As for your site, it seems fair enough. The articles are fine, but (as mentioned) need images and it would be really nice if you had some example gmk/gmz files to download and demonstrate the things you discuss.

[Bending_the_rules]

Uggh.. Sorry for breaking the rules..

Most of the posts have a .gmk link in fact. You should find it in the end (mostly) or at the beginning...

And, one more post added.. Steganography: Hands-on Approach using Gamemaker
Quite a few images added this time..