Freezebeam

Author: Matt Fister

  • Three Dummy UX Mistakes I’m Forever Ashamed Of

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    Matt Fister

    I got the chance to demo Evoplasm to strangers for the first time at a Boston Indies demo night the other night. This made me question my game, my life (just kidding), and most importantly my UX design skills. Here are three lessons I learned. Make Your Buttons Unique From Panels When you start a…

  • Evoplasm Devlog 3

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    Matt Fister

    This week we have a couple updates Check it out!

  • Evoplasm Devlog 2

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    Matt Fister

    Exciting updates this week. We have a starting creature builder and three (3!) types of elemental damage, each with different unique effects. Check it out. We’re also working on setting up the Freezebeam Steam developer account, so hopefully we can create a store page soon.

  • Evoplasm Devlog 1

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    Matt Fister

    This is our first devlog! We’ll be publishing these every Friday. This is a first look and let’s play of the game. Enjoy!

  • Mountains

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    Matt Fister

    This page tracks my progress in hiking all of the mountains in Massachusetts. Mountain Height (feet)  Date Hiked Mount Greylock 3,491 Saddle Ball Mountain 3,238 Mount Fitch 3,110 Mount Williams 2,951 Spruce Mountain 2,710 Mount Prospect 2,690 Misery Mountain 2,671 Brodie Mountain 2,621 Mount Everett 2,602 Beoadic Mountain 2,598 Bakke Mountain 2,566 Rounds Rock 2,559…

  • Best Games of 2017

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    Matt Fister

    Not in any order: Subnautica This is the most terrifying game. A bat attacked me in real life after a **REDACTED** attacked me in game. I’m still afraid but I’m going to try it again. The Witness I am not good at the puzzles. I drew a lot of them on paper but I am…

  • Tip Of My Tongue

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    Matt Fister

    This is a list of things I keep forgetting but keep coming up. Let’s put an end to this problem! Song Played in AP US History Class (on Fridays) in 11th Grade My teacher played this every Friday, but I think he must have recorded a sting from the radio or something, cause it had…

  • Ruin Dogs Dungeon Generator

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    Matt Fister

     Check out the V2 Ruin Index Ruin Dogs is a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting that my friends and I came up with. The heroes are ruin dogs, young adventurers who are forced by a powerful wizard to explore dangerous dungeons and recover mysterious artifacts. As a companion piece to this campaign, I wrote a…

  • NanoGenMo 2015 – Simulationist Fantasy Novel

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    Matt Fister

     Read a random computer generated fantasy novel!  NanoGenMo Code  WordTools Code Overview In 2015 I took part in Darius Kazemi’s NanoGenMo. The goal of NanoGenMo is to generate a novel from a computer program. My creation was a fantasy novel that was created by simulating a party of adventurers traveling through a fantasy world in…

  • Sparkulous Revenge

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    Matt Fister

    [ezcol_1third] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] Windows Download Sparkulous Revenge is a project that I worked on in several different forms off and on since 2008. You can trace its evolution from my game SuperGork through two games I never released, Under the Earth and Fuerte Dragon Rojo. The idea was to create a top down turn based…