Suit em up – building sprite sheets

Hello!
This week I have been really productive. First of I did finish the last touches on our Bugger, the pink flying bug from last week. The glowing’s looks way better now and he doesn’t look like a flying and buzzing Christmas three anymore (lulz).
Then I did our basic map. To this week we have used a placeholder from our mock-ups so we could have one before the finished graphics were done.
This is how it looked then…

…And this is how […]

Suit em up – building sprite sheets

Hello!
This week I have been really productive. First of I did finish the last touches on our Bugger, the pink flying bug from last week. The glowing’s looks way better now and he doesn’t look like a flying and buzzing Christmas three anymore (lulz).
Then I did our basic map. To this week we have used a placeholder from our mock-ups so we could have one before the finished graphics were done.
This is how it looked then…

…And this is how […]

Artifact of the week: Implementing Morker

Hello there!
Last week we made a prototype of the morker that was able to shoot bullets towards the player and move to each side to make it harder to hit it.
So this week our task was to implement it in the main project that we have started to get together after some struggles with github.  Even though we already knew what we wanted the morker to do and how we could do it in the prototype, it was another thing […]

Game dev, Suit’em up – Animations in different directions

We have released a friends & family beta test and gotten some statistics of the current status of our game.
You are welcome to participate, here is the link to the feedback: feedback-form
And here is a link to the game, please fill in feedback if you play!: SuitEmUp FnF pre-beta
I have made animations work in different directions for enemies and the player. This is not implemented in the version I linked above but I will explain what is […]

Project “Haunted Light” 2014-03-06 Pick-axe hack animation

One more week has flown by so fast and it’s time for yet another blog post. For this week’s sprint I’ve been working on the hacking with a pick-axe animation for the player. We in group 5 decided early on to keep the digging mechanic that the original game concept of “Bloody Badgers” had. Although in “Bloody Badgers” digging was the core mechanic, we decided for it to not play that big of a role in our game. We really […]

Animation in my nation

So another week has past, another artifact accomplished and perfected. A new thing has been learned this week. animations.
if you haven’t been paying attention in school I guess I’ll go over the basics. You create a class that allows itself to have a string of pictures. These depicts an animation and you line them up perfectly and in order. You take all of these images and load them into the program as just ONE image. You then created small frames […]

Animation in my nation

So another week has past, another artifact accomplished and perfected. A new thing has been learned this week. animations.
if you haven’t been paying attention in school I guess I’ll go over the basics.
You create a class that allows itself to have a string of pictures.
These depicts an animation and you line them up perfectly and in order.
You take all of these images and load them into the program as just ONE image.
You then created small frames of where you want […]

Haunted Light – Button class

This time I’ll be talking about a simple Button-class that I created this weak and the planning involved around it.
When I was thinking this through and listing everything I needed for the class to do what we want it to do, I planned it to be unnecessarily complicated. How I planned it was that it would be very similar to SFML’s own Sprite class. By creating 4 points, or verticies, they dictate the buttons size and then we could […]

Week 6: Animations

Enough with the details already!! I got 2 animations done, one is the shooting sequence (both guard and player) And the other one is a strangling sequence. First of I started with a fast sketch just to see if it would look good (I learned from reading Mikaela Mobergs Blog). And yes, it was a helpful strategy! So first I had the sketch then I started to color it.
Here you have the sketch (its not going to be running this […]

Week 7 – With Intent

There isn’t much I can write about this week, since I got a sudden call this Tuesday. I’ll be taking the ferry back to the mainland tomorrow afternoon, I’ll earn some money from it and the traveling expenses is being paid, I couldn’t really pass up on that now could I?
During the last weekend and into Monday, I’ve been working on the Collision Manager, Unlike the first version of the collision manager that took 2 arguments (position and radius), the […]

University Projects: Level 1 Design

Hello everyone!

This week, I’ve been working on finalizing the first level in our game. This was interesting because I got to work from the ground up, starting out with the basic design, getting started on environmental design, finishing it, designing the puzzles intended for the map and then finishing the details of it all.
So Level 1s design is based around a library. The reason for using a library was both that it was easy to design multiple encounters all in […]

Level Design and Sound Generate Mechanic

Level Design
This week has seen some major changes to the map. We’ve changed the colour scheme, added new areas (which means redrawing A LOT of collision, light and entities). I’ve made some pretty extensive mock-ups on paper, and tried changing walkpaths around in order for the Aesthetic goals the game set out to create, to be fulfilled.
Sooo many Areas have been torn down, rebuilt, just to be torn down again and just scrapped. It’s got to be perfect! Although, this […]