Jono Shields

Making a Shoot 'em up for the masses

How to take a niche genre and make it more appealing to a larger audience

Starting another GBA Jam

How I got from my last gamejam entry LRO to where we are now. GBAJAM2022!

Polishing LRO

The most important design decisions I made in the last week of the GBA Winter GameJam, dialog for narrative, more puzzles and measuring success.

Enhancing Luggage Retrieval Officer

Adding more features to Luggage Retrieval Officer

GBA Winter Jam

Making a sliding block puzzle game for the GBA

Why I stopped making NFTs

My short experience with NFTs, why I stopped and what I would do differently next time.

Kiwijam21 - 48HRS - Adapt

Using Butano to make a Warioware inspired game for GBA in under 48 hours

Revisiting Tacotown

Using MagicaVoxel, SpriteStack and Aseprite to bring new life to my old idea to make a mobile restaurant simulator.

Feline - Finishing Touches

Adding New Levels, New Enemies, Polishing and adding more content

Using HBlank to add Parallax

Adding a title screen to my GBA Game Feline using HBlank Effects on Affine BGs

Adding more lore to Feline

Using a minigame and secret codes to introduce more lore into Feline

Mapping out an MVP for Feline

Creating a map of the bare essentials of the game to display as much of it as possible, but for as little effort as possible

Making a boids simulation on the GBA

Using the Butano Game Engine to make a Boids Simulation on the Gameboy Advance (GBA), Boids is an algorithm to mimic flocking birds flying and avoiding each other

Jono has a Plan

If you don't have a plan then how can you know when something didn't go to plan? Making a plan, improving my character sprites and a talk about performance in Butano

Attacking Animations and Enemies

Jono gets stuck for a bit trying to figure out points, we add player attacks, enemies to attack, along with their animations and funky physics

Animation, Camera and Movement Improvements

Redoing the cat animation from reference images, improving how the camera follows our cat hero and introducing a new movement mechanic

Another Level, Dialogue and NPC's

Thanks to Butano's excellent Docs, I am still making progress even without internet

Will this be a game?

Game Design - How to turn this from a tech demo to an actual game?

Animation States and Dash Ability

Refactoring the player class, animation states and adding a dash ability

Refactor and Acceleration

Refactoring my GBA Gamejam game with classes so it is much nicer

Collisions, Music and More

Colliding with the map using Butano and making some music

Detecting Map Tiles

Detecting where on the map our character is

Yeah, its going okay

So I may have been scared off a little by C++ again and a little frustrated at my self for not trying harding or digging deeper.

Animation, Movement and Backgrounds

Animating and moving our character in Butano for GBA

Let's draw a sprite!

Drawing a sprite in Butano for GBA

Joining GBAJam

Getting onboard with GBAJam 2021

Experimenting with Double-X

Bulk Rolling Kodak Double-X 5222 and finding the best exposure settings for it.

Imposter Syndrome

When you feel like you aren't good enough, anxiety gets the better of you

Summer Roadtrip

Two week roadtrip around north island of New Zealand

Exhibit

My photo got into an exhibit hosted by The Black & White Box

Catching up

I haven't posted in a long time

Island Generation

Using Perlin Noise to Procedurally Generate Islands

Fake News

Using Markov Chains to Generate President Trump's Next Tweet

New Camera Day

This week I bought my dream camera

Gospel of Luke

My first photo gig, an interesting experience

How to do street photography?

Jono explores what it means to take street photos

Jono's first attempt to develop film

Let's Develop Film and hope it doesn't go terribly wrong

Getting into Portraits with the Pentax 6x7

Exploring Medium Format

Early Morning Photography

Getting up at dawn to walk around a new city is always an adventure

Panoramas with the Pentax 6x7

Venturing into Medium Format (Panorama)

The Yashica 35 M

Playing around with something a bit different. The Yashica 35 M

A Photographer's Perspective

Perspective is one of your main tools as a photographer. It's your opportunity to show the world what you see

Leading Lines

What is a leading lines? Why does it make your photos more interesting?

Shooting Black & White

Jono learns about the difficulties of shooting in Black & White

Reversing Negatives

I learn how to invert a film negative

Light Leak

Buys second hand film camera, what is up with these photos.

Day 1

Day 1. What am I doing?

Procedurally Generated Scenes

Using Math to generated cool pictures

Generating Mountains

Using Cellular Automata to generate mountains

Procedural Patterns