My artifact, the Game Design Document

So in this new course we’re making another game and will be writing one of several artifacts that you’ve been working with. You should answer the questions what/how/why? and basically reflect on what you’ve worked with. It has to be 400 words minimum and deadlines are on thursdays and on top of that one member of another group will comment your blog post with at least 200 words. Anyway enough talk already let’s get started!
So what have I done and […]

My artifact, the Game Design Document

So in this new course we’re making another game and will be writing one of several artifacts that you’ve been working with. You should answer the questions what/how/why? and basically reflect on what you’ve worked with. It has to be 400 words minimum and deadlines are on thursdays and on top of that one member of another group will comment your blog post with at least 200 words. Anyway enough talk already let’s get started!
So what have I done and […]

Codename: Haunted Light – SpriteManager

This week and the previous one have been great! We’ve managed to fix most of the game engine’s core features. In the forthcoming days we’ll start working on some simple gameplay implementations.
The development library we use for Haunted Light is SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library). Well the name speaks for itself but it’s a simple-to-use framework to communicate with all the Input and Output devices of the computer. Without a development library you’d have to write code that directly […]

Sprinting Into Pre-Alpha

At the moment we are creating games based on the concepts we did a couple of months ago. My group is creating a “defend the objective” type game where the player is tasked with defending his/her truck from waves of bandits. The most off the cuff mechanic in this game is that you are only allowed to move in a circular arc around your truck. To make sure we are going to complete the game before the course is finished […]