Big Game Project (week2)

I realized that all you guys reading my blog might not know what Big Game Project is, therefore I will describe it shortly. The Big Game Project is the last course we second year students have at Uppsala University, Campus Gotland.  The game that we are developing will be shown at Gotland Game Conference where everyone attending can play the game, all from jurys, other students and random people attending at the conference.
The second week in big game project has […]

Big Game Project (week2)

I realized that all you guys reading my blog might not know what Big Game Project is, therefore I will describe it shortly. The Big Game Project is the last course we second year students have at Uppsala University, Campus Gotland.  The game that we are developing will be shown at Gotland Game Conference where everyone attending can play the game, all from jurys, other students and random people attending at the conference.
The second week in big game project has […]

Week 2 of BGP

Last week was the second week of Big game Project, I thought I would get more work done this week, but time sure flies.
During last week I mainly worked on the animations but also managed to create two props.
The props I created was two bushes, I created them by using the same method I used for the tree crowns, I didn’t come across any problems so creating them went smoothly.

What I spent most of  my time […]

Day 6

Monday again! well, back to office hours after being sick on saturday and taking Sunday off.I’ve already made it so that there’s the option to create thin walls that block access between two specific tiles, without otherwise inhibiting movement using these tiles.
I am now working on the enemy, since the other full-time programmer that was supposed to do this went back to the mainland for Easter. Myself, I’m going on Thursday morning.Halfway through making a state framework for the NPC […]

Let’s see if we can bring this back.

Fitting that i said i was going to resume blogging on April 1. 
For the last two weeks I’ve been working in the new group on Slacker Simulator, Project Miracle, Project Groove and now on Long Play.
We had some issues with what game idea to chose for our project and went through several ones but now we have decided to pick a music based game where the player avoids objects while running along a spinning LP track. (LP stands for Long […]

Let’s see if we can bring this back.

Fitting that i said i was going to resume blogging on April 1. 
For the last two weeks I’ve been working in the new group on Slacker Simulator, Project Miracle, Project Groove and now on Long Play.
We had some issues with what game idea to chose for our project and went through several ones but now we have decided to pick a music based game where the player avoids objects while running along a spinning LP track. (LP stands for Long […]

Big Game Project – Week 2

Yesterday I felt like I had stayed up completely too long and screwed over my sleep schedule again, it was 9 pm. This week has been so crazy that when it’s finally weekend I have too much time.
We had a deadline this week to have our first playable prototype ready by Friday. This ended up with us working until 2 AM the day before, but we got a lot of stuff done.
Teodor was sitting with most of the week with […]

Hero Ability Buttons

So artifact of the week is the Hero Ability Buttons.To keep it short, there are 6 different abilities the player may choose before entering the game and designing a button which tells what information a specific ability has was rather difficult. I had to …

Programming & Level Designing Tower Offensive, Pt 1

Hey, It’s time to write again.
This time it’s for another course at UUCG (Uppsala University Campus Gotland) called Big Game Project.
The course is about creating a game over 10 weeks.
I’m the lead programmer for the game Tower Offensive. I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to tell at this moment since we haven’t posted much about it at our dev blog yet.  But at least we got a  matching element. So what do I do? Well I got the role […]

Big Game: Week 2

Monday: I updated all the matching squares so that they used the latest art, no longer do they look like squares so they will hereby be referred to as materials. I took some more time to figure out why the performance was so low within the cube script (material script, if you will). It turned out each of the 81 matching materials had a float that got the delta time added to them every frame. The float was just a temporary measure I […]

Big Game Project – Week 2

Yesterday I felt like I had stayed up completely too long and screwed over my sleep schedule again, it was 9 pm. This week has been so crazy that when it’s finally weekend I have too much time.
We had a deadline this week to have our first playable prototype ready by Friday. This ended up with us working until 2 AM the day before, but we got a lot of stuff done.
Teodor was sitting with most of the week with […]

Programming & Level Designing Tower Offensive, Pt 1

Hey, It’s time to write again.
This time it’s for another course at UUCG (Uppsala University Campus Gotland) called Big Game Project.
What we are supposed to do is to create a game with a time limit of 10 weeks. Blogging during the course is mandatory, so I need to do it to get a grade… Well it’s not a bad thing is just that I’m not very fond of writing, I understand why they want us to do it. Maybe I’ll […]