Blog - LDG

How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself

2022 Mar 15 by Matt
A Wizard's Lizard by the numbers: our HTML5 game on Steam

2014 Oct 8 by Matt
Celebrate independence with a Skyrocket

2014 Jul 4 by Matt
A Wizard's Lizard: Immortal Edition launches June 16

2014 Jun 4 by Matt
Asylum Night graphics are now free to use

2014 Apr 16 by Matt
A Wizard's Lizard 1.0.185

2014 Feb 2 by Matt
What it was like making HTML5 games in 2013

2013 Dec 20 by Matt
A Wizard's Lizard Art Asset Overview

2013 Nov 16 by Matt
Crypt Run is now A Wizard's Lizard

2013 Oct 21 by Matt
Wish Geoff a happy birthday by playing as him in the Crypt Run alpha

2013 Sep 16 by Matt
Understanding Canvas Rotation

2013 Aug 30 by Geoff
The making of the Waveform 4 album cover

2013 Aug 25 by Matt
Crypt Run Kickstarter postmortem

2013 Aug 21 by Matt
Crypt Run alpha 152

2013 Aug 15 by Matt
Crypt Run 180% funded

2013 Aug 12 by Matt
How to help a crowd-funding campaign without spending any money

2013 Aug 8 by Matt
Join us for the Crypt Run Kickstarter live countdown

2013 Aug 5 by Matt
Nintendo approves Lost Decade as official developer, Crypt Run sets Wii U stretch goal

2013 Aug 4 by Matt
Challenge a friend to a game of Crypt Run

2013 Jul 28 by Matt
Crypt Run alpha 0.0.95

2013 Jul 27 by Matt
Half-time! 15 days left in the Crypt Run Kickstarter campaign

2013 Jul 26 by Matt
High quality photos of our California Extreme demo

2013 Jul 22 by Matt
Our first week on Kickstarter: The Numbers

2013 Jul 19 by Matt
Announcing Crypt Run on Kickstarter

2013 Jul 12 by Matt
The making of the Indie B-Side, Vol. 1 album cover

2013 Jul 5 by Matt
Play Crypt Run at California Extreme July 13-14

2013 Jun 27 by Matt
Lava Blade 1.1 and Steam Greenlight

2013 May 10 by Geoff
Geoff's List of Awesome OS X Apps

2013 Apr 26 by Geoff
Rampart Rush Beta

2013 Apr 25 by Matt
Lava Blade arrives on Windows

2013 Apr 24 by Geoff
Mailbag: Frameworks, Canvas vs DOM, Native mobile

2013 Apr 19 by Geoff
Lava Blade arrives on Mac OS X

2013 Apr 18 by Geoff
Lava Blade now available on Chrome Web Store

2013 Apr 11 by Matt
Play our new game Treasure Geoff

2013 Apr 1 by Matt
Play our new game Treasure Goblin

2013 Mar 27 by Matt
Lava Blade alpha 0.5.44

2013 Mar 25 by Matt
Asylum Night: making a tower defense game in 48 hours

2013 Jan 15 by Matt
Lost Decade's goals for 2013

2013 Jan 7 by Matt
Indie life: high quality photos of us making games

2012 Dec 21 by Matt
The Wii U web browser's HTML5 gaming capabilities

2012 Dec 9 by Matt
Thanksgiving mini-jam

2012 Nov 22 by Geoff
Lava Blade feedback word clouds

2012 Nov 17 by Matt
Play our HTML5 games on your Xbox 360

2012 Oct 28 by Matt
Lunch Bug now available on Google Play

2012 Oct 11 by Matt
Lava Blade alpha 0.2.1

2012 Oct 7 by Matt
Unfortunate Lostcast news

2012 Sep 23 by Matt
Join the Lava Blade alpha test!

2012 Sep 21 by Geoff
Geoff Lava Bladed

2012 Sep 16 by Matt
Get the Lunch Bug OST for just two bucks

2012 Aug 26 by Matt
Lunch Bug 1.20.19: tutorial bug fix

2012 Aug 20 by Matt
Lunch Bug now featured in the Chrome Web Store!

2012 Aug 15 by Matt
Help fund Dragons Gameboard, get new Onslaught!-style pixel art

2012 Aug 9 by Matt
Lava Blade art assets and concepts

2012 Jul 28 by Matt
Lunch Bug 1.20.16

2012 Jul 23 by Matt
Announcing Lunch Bug!

2012 Jul 20 by Matt
Firefox Audio canplay bugs

2012 Jul 13 by Matt
Polishing a Level Select screen: process and implementation

2012 Jun 26 by Matt
Our mobile-optimized HTML5 game Lava Sword is looking for sponsors

2012 Jun 6 by Matt
How to Make a Video Game on Laser Time Podcast

2012 Jun 4 by Matt
Free Art Friday 2: Bomb Party

2012 Jun 1 by Matt
Choc-Onslaught!

2012 May 18 by Geoff
Free Art Friday: Lemcraft

2012 May 4 by Matt
Play the Onslaught! 2 prototype from late 2010

2012 Apr 27 by Matt
Our simple new business cards

2012 Apr 19 by Matt
Submitting Lunch Bug to IndieCade

2012 Apr 15 by Matt
Play around with the Lunch Bug animation preview tool

2012 Apr 11 by Matt
Lostcast production timelapse

2012 Apr 5 by Matt
Announcing OnslaughtVille!

2012 Apr 1 by Geoff
Your wish for a wishlist has been granted

2012 Mar 29 by Matt
Goodbye GitHub, Hello AWS

2012 Mar 26 by Geoff
How to polish your game: flickering hearts

2012 Mar 13 by Matt
Onslaught! Arena takes 3rd place in the Pokki 1up Game Developer Contest

2012 Mar 10 by Matt
An onslaught of Onslaught! news

2012 Feb 27 by Matt
Lava Sword Dev Diary

2012 Feb 24 by Matt
Free-to-use graphics made by my brother in 1996

2011 Oct 24 by Matt
Lost Links: 10/21/2011

2011 Oct 21 by Geoff
Bootstrap your artistic abilities with pixels

2011 Oct 17 by Matt
Lost Links: 10/14/2011

2011 Oct 14 by Geoff
Onslaught! -- a history of violence (in images)

2011 Oct 10 by Matt
Lost Links: 10/7/2011

2011 Oct 7 by Geoff
Audia is a library for simplifying the Web Audio API

2011 Oct 5 by Matt
Lost Links: 9/30/2011

2011 Sep 30 by Geoff
Blog author attribution using Jekyll

2011 Sep 26 by Geoff
Lost Links: 9/23/2011

2011 Sep 23 by Geoff
Our new blog is running on Jekyll

2011 Sep 12 by Matt
How to make a simple HTML5 Canvas game

2011 Aug 29 by Matt
Analog thumb sticks for iOS using HTML5

2011 Aug 5 by Matt
Dear Lost Decade...

2011 Jul 18 by Matt
Onslaught! now available on Android tablets

2011 Jul 16 by Matt
The road to a production-quality HTML5 game on iOS

2011 Jul 11 by Matt
Lava background sprite creation (timelapse)

2011 May 25 by Matt
Completing your native Mac OSX App built in HTML5

2011 Apr 17 by Matt
No more foolin' around

2011 Apr 2 by Geoff
Onslaught! Arena v1.2.25 is FREE (today only)

2011 Apr 1 by Matt
What we need to get our HTML5 game on iPad

2011 Mar 17 by Matt
How to embed HTML5 into a native Mac OSX app

2011 Mar 15 by Matt
An HTML5 game in the Mac App Store

2011 Mar 13 by Matt
Onslaught! Arena is free on Valentine's Day

2011 Feb 13 by Matt
Onslaught! Arena v1.2.8

2011 Feb 12 by Matt
Details about our next game Burn Tactics

2011 Jan 16 by Matt
Onslaught! Arena now on sale for $1.99

2011 Jan 7 by Matt
Reviews of 6 Screen Recording Apps for OSX

2010 Dec 31 by Matt
Our first week in the Chrome Webstore (the numbers)

2010 Dec 14 by Matt
App Engine and Chrome Webstore Issues

2010 Dec 12 by Matt
Announcing Onslaught! Arena for sale in the Google Chrome Webstore!

2010 Dec 7 by Geoff
Obfuscating JavaScript with Closure Compiler Advanced Optimizations

2010 Nov 17 by Geoff
Onslaught! Arena 1.0 Gameplay Teaser

2010 Oct 16 by Geoff
What to do when your game is too easy and too hard

2010 Aug 29 by Matt
Puzzle Punk -- a Postmortem on a Failed Puzzle Quest Clone

2010 Aug 14 by Matt
A Simple Guide to Game Development Contests

2010 Jul 30 by Matt
Fun With Logos

2010 Jul 25 by Matt
Boing Boing Contest Post Mortem -- Onslaught!

2010 Jul 20 by Geoff
Onslaught! v0.2 & Freeplay Awards

2010 Jul 19 by Geoff
Our Boing Boing "Games Inspired by Music" entry - Onslaught!

2010 Jul 9 by Geoff
Diggy, an open source JavaScript game engine (with example game)

2010 Jul 5 by Matt
Why You Can't Play Matt's Dream Game (Yet)

2010 May 31 by Matt
Why Geoff Failed and the Road to Redemption

2010 May 31 by Geoff