Sean Monahan

As an aspiring game designer and developer I find myself reading tons of interviews with other developers, articles by devs and game postmortems. All of these things give wonderful insight into the process of making games and how games evolve over their development cycles. Having recently completed my first game that I’ve put out into the world I thought I’d also contribute an article detailing my initial plans and the process that got me to the finished product. Read on for the full details.
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Recently I submitted Beat Boost to a games contest on boingboing.net and just this morning I found out I was selected as one of the finalists! So stoked! Check out all the games and vote ( for me ) here.

UPDATE: I ended up taking third place!

I’m just about finished with my current Moleskine and rather than buy a new one I’ve opted to start creating my own notebooks. Check them out here. If you’d like to commission your own hand bound notebook get in touch with me here

I recently added a page to this site for Defuse World Editor, a 2D tile-based editor for games. Presently the editor is closely tied to Defuse, a 2D action-puzzle-platformer I’m finishing up for release this summer, but I plan to cut that cord and make it a much more reusable and general purpose level editor.

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I recently upgraded to Windows 7 x64 from Windows Vista x64 and I must say I’m loving it! However, much like Vista x64 before it Win7 x64 doesn’t play nice with Flex Builder. I still have issues with blank dialogs (for which I found a work around) but now I have an issue with adding build paths.
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