We are creating a visual novel game, spliced with a match 3 game. The theme is ice hockey romance. The title is Hat Trick, and the series is “Hockey Hearts”.
Author: Keith Southworth
No new art this week. Spent the week working on websites, handling upgrades, and investigating print on demand options.
We are creating a visual novel game, spliced with a match 3 game. The theme is ice hockey romance. The title is Hat Trick, and the series is “Hockey Hearts”.
Spent the week working on the beginning polar bear art. I purchased a bunch of assets on itch.io in a bundle and one of those asset packs included a bunch of animated chibi sprites. Here’s an example: I can’t use any of them as is, they don’t fit the theme of the game, but they … Expand “Weekly Wrap Up April 19 2025” »
We are creating a visual novel game, spliced with a match 3 game. The theme is ice hockey romance. The title is Hat Trick, and the series is “Hockey Hearts”.
2025 Goals
I enjoyed it the last time I took the class and I’m really enjoying it this time too. His mentality towards game design, game-play, and player communities aligns with mine. It’s all about designing a toy for the player to play with and then letting them play, letting them build content to play with, and not interfering with that play, but observing it, and then finding ways to enhance that play, and encourage creativity, connections, and community.
Been a weird month. As I’ve mentioned before, my primary goal this year is my health. So in alignment with that I spent quite a bit of time making appointments, and arranging transportation. Then dealing with the appointments themselves, medications, and followups. Add my general stress over being around medical types and migraines, and it’s … Expand “Blog Weekly Update 6/28/2024” »
Blog Weekly Update 6/9/2024 My partner being the wonderful dragon that he is, suggested that instead of building a little town or fighting my brain, I could use my brain and build my cities in unreal. Since I was talking about already making it into a game. The effort would be part of the game, … Expand “Blog Weekly Update 6/9/2024” »
Project: WebComic – Todd and the Fae This is a new frame. To break up the flow. This frame the perspective is shifted. the vanision point is on the left instead of in the center of the frame. I’m testing colors, trying to find the right mix of greys. Added this distance shot to show … Expand “Story Board – Analog – Frame 006.5” »


