Animating a huge sound wave

In my team’s space shooter game, there will be a huge attack which will swipe the whole screen and destroy any crystal enemies that stands in its way. The player has to charge the attack by repeatedly tapping  the 1-key on the keyboard and then fire it by pressing the E-key. Since the player avatar is a singing dragon, the attack will be a big sound wave.
My first idea was to have big waves that makes the whole screen move. So […]

GAME DEVELOPMENT WEEKLY BLOG POST NR5. MAIN MENU CONTINUE

I started this week work where I left it the other week. So this mean I continue on the main menu and the background. I want it to be as clean as possible for our beta deadline which is this Friday this week.
The background from last week was pretty much done except the colors and some shading. I am working with Photoshop and there for I am using a lot of layers. I will try to explain what a layer […]

Doors and keys

The past few day I’ve been working on fixing the doors and the keys in our space shooter. One of my programing colleges, Andreas Lundmark (link to his blog here), had been working on the base of both the doors and the keys, however since he got stuck with the coding and had to work on other parts of the game, such as sound and the menu of the game, I decided to take a look the […]

Week 8: Firing the Tesla gun

Above, left: Old gun colour scheme. Above, right: New gun colour scheme.
This week I have spent most of the time working on the shoot animation for Otto. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, the turtle Otto (who owns the mansion that the player is breaking into) has a Tesla gun which he uses to shoot the player once detected and within range. The gun is supposed to have a bit of a charge time before it can be fired, allowing the player […]

Huvud-, Game Over- & Pause menyer – The Last Signal

Sammanfattning
Jag jobbar på spelkonceptet The Last Signal och det här är den sjunde veckan vi jobbat på det projektet. Den här veckan har jag lagt fokus på de olika menyerna som ska finnas i vårat spel, dessa är en Huvud-meny, en Game Over-meny och en Pause-meny. Jag har även jobbat till och från med ljud effekter.
Hur har arbetet gått?
Jag tycker att arbetet har gått relativt bra den här veckan, det har gått sakta men säkert fram och jag är rätt […]

Last week before Beta presentation, adding a tutorialscreen

Hello reader! Compared to how we felt one week before our Alpha presentation, our group is feeling a lot better when we go into the Beta presentation. During the Alpha presentation, we had only really basic gameplay without objectives, and no graphical implementation at all. We also lacked things like powerups and a projectile. To be fair, it didn’t look like a mole doing anything at all, it was just a square picking up squares being chased by squares. While […]

Blogpost V – Fancy Mansion

This week on implementing items with the avatar animations.
My task this week has been to implement all the stealable items with the protagonist avatar animations. This week was a bit different since we have the Beta presentation in Friday and our sprint plan stretches through the weekend. This meant I had to prioritize what artefacts to do first in order to maybe implement them in the game in time for the presentation. My tactic thou were to first implement the […]

Week 8 – Pause Screen

So we are closing up on the Beta presentation and during this week I have been working on the pause screen for our game Magic Writer.
In our group we have divided our graphical tasks in three stages to get a more solid and uniform art style. One person do a sketch, another one puts colour and shading on it and the third one finishes it up and gives it clean lines. We have been trying this method out for a […]

LAST SIGNAL – H.A.C.

In order to relay information to the player we needed a way to give the player the right information needed at the right time. To do this we created the Handheld Artificial Companion, or H.A.C. for short. This allows us to relay information in the games universe without breaking the immersion that we want to achieve. The name comes from the narrative created by our level designer while he was designing the levels for the game.

The H.A.C. displays the text in a […]

Weekly blog assignment #5

Hi everyone!
I started out this week with finishing my bounce power-up, I did have some troubles with it as it had some bugs. After spending a considerable amount of time on it I asked for help from our lead code, after a few iterations we were able to solve it and now it works fine (most of the time).
The main thing I worked on this week was creating a instructions state, where the players can see two pictures that explains […]

Magic Writer – Week 5

This week has been very hectic for me with loads of school work. You can say that last week was wake up call when a friend of mine mentioned that we only have few weeks left of this course, this made me realize that I don’t have much time left for some old lingering works that needs to be done as soon as possible. Due to my sudden change in priorities I have sadly not put that much time on […]

GameDev: Reacting to the dangers of Mole Munch

Hi!
This week, I have been working on making Mole Munch feel more like an actual game by applying consequences to messing up, and a score based on the amount of vegetables the mole has eaten. First and foremost my task was to apply a game over screen which activates when the player collides with either gardener or flooding water.

This screen was all that I got to draw this week :b

This was all fine and dandy, but by adding consequences to messing […]