Recent content by bhickenbottom

Thanks! And more levels are in the works. :)

Waveguide | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States) Waveguide is a free shooter/platformer for Windows Phone. It's playable in portrait or landscape. "From the creator of Cartridge and Shine. A research station orbiting a strange planet has come under attack by an unknown aggressor...

I have released several updates for this game since this was posted. Suggestions are appreciated. :)

Of course Apple's solution applies here. They had the exact same problem: the resolution, the DPI, was becoming outdated. The same problem Windows Phone has now. The only difference is that their solution was much more elegant. Phones will always be certain size and eventually the human eye...

I thought the resolution issue was something they were trying to fix with Windows Phone. I don't know how many times I heard the multitude of resolutions on Android referred to as "fragmentation" in talks. That's one great thing about developing for the iPhone, dealing with a single resolution...

I was hoping they'd pixel double like Apple did with the iPhone, then it would scale up nicely on newer phones (it would look pixelated, but at least it wouldn't look muddy, and you wouldn't need to deal with different aspect rations). What Apple did was such an elegant solution. Since most of...

http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-phone-8-os-builds-spotted-well-new-display-resolution As a one-person Windows Phone game developer am I the only one who's cringing at the news of so many different resolutions? I do a ridiculous amout of sprite work and have tons of assets drawn at...

I received an email awhile back saying that Microsoft wanted my permission to bring my game to additional Marketplaces. I gave it. I later saw this article and found my game on the Brazilian marketplace: http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-adding-more-games-brazilian-windows-phone-owners...

Count me in, http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c181c7c9-65ce-447e-93e6-a0a56d8679ac

From the creator of Cartridge, Shine is a casual platformer about a sprout with a unique ability: he can change the color of his leaf and in doing so can change his environment. And now that spring is here, he?s ready to explore. Traverse a random series of levels in which you must collect one...

I just released Cartridge, a free platformer for Windows Phone inspired by classic NES and SNES platformers. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c181c7c9-65ce-447e-93e6-a0a56d8679ac Please let me know if you have any suggestions. :happy: