Enemy Squid Design and Animation

This week has been dedicated to final design of- and the beginning of animating the new enemy my team created for our game.
This new enemy is a squid that we feel complement the other enemies (piranhas, swordfish and blowfish) in the aquarium rather well, as this enemy has its own projectile based attack. It will, when in range of Stephen (the player character), let out a cloud of ink to blur the vision of Stephen (the player) and thus make […]

Fixing a glitchy background.

Hello readers(and Mikael), last week I wrote I was going to write about the sprint reviews but I decided not to. Instead I will write how I was working with tracking down, and smashing a bug that was occurring in our latest build.
After the second week we successfully implemented a scrolling background in the game. The scrolling background purpose is to feel like the background is always moving in a set direction. In this case we put two identical pictures on […]

Designer of level system

Hi, it is I, the Designer of time. Taking a break from designing our level to write to you guys.
I have been working on our level for Echo (still not the final name and I hope we can come up with something better soon). It is a work in progress and to perfect it, will most likely be impossible, but the least I can do is to make it as good as I can within our time frame.
There is so […]

Upgrading Player Shooting

Two pictures showing different bullet patterns being employed by the player.
This week I’ve been doing a lot. Yet nothing really seems to stand out so I’ll talk about something that might be quite simple but could still be interesting. We have figured out a way to implement the parade now. It will be tied to upgrading the players shooting. So for every x number of enemies that get added to the parade, the players shooting pattern will change. We do […]

5SD064 Small changes mainly power ups

Hi i’m Kevin. I’m the second programmer and lead sound of the group Fenrir. Where making the game “Bullet Hack” and this week i have been making mostly small changes. We are trying to make a GUI right now so I have been making a health slider and also a slider showing the cooldown of the player bullets. I have also been working on the power ups since we wanted to have three of them and they are all implemented […]

Week 3 -Adding feedback to the player

Week 3 has also come to an end and it feels like it just began!
First off I’d like to start with a quick introduction to what I was working with the past week for those that have not read that post. Last week was the alpha presentation which meant that we wanted to have as many assets implemented in the Unity project as possible. This resulted in me, the Art director of Team Kraken to primarily focus on implementing all […]

The Third Blogpost – Nazul

Hello and welcome to my third blogpost. Today I will be talking about something that we have been experimenting with quite a bit, the movement. The reason why we have not really been satisfied with the movement is because we want the animation to look good. The thing with the animations is that when you move to the right, the witch’s hair  tosses to the left if that makes sense, I will post a picture of this later. The thing […]

The making of our Weapon Manager and how important object oriented programming is

When I first wrote my weapon manager I did not think about the importance of programming in a object oriented mindset. This lead to a limited script that made it hard to implement new weapons with different stats and behavior. This was something I later needed to rewrite and in this blog post I will talk about how I perceived this encounter.
At the start, the weapon manager contained the stats for a general weapon for example fire-rate, spread and recoil. […]

Meeting aka Stand ups

Meeting
 
Today I am going to talk about the meeting in general. Recently, like many other teams, our group gathered up almost everyday. Actually meeting can be defined in various names and types. For instance, by the formation or people that participate a meeting can be called ‘stakeholders meeting’ or ‘daily stand ups’. What our group is doing is daily stand ups.
To explain more about daily stand ups, according to Wikipedia it is ‘a meeting in which attendees typically participate […]

Blog Post #3 – The importance of team building

Hello and welcome to this weeks Blog post! After having presented the Alpha version of our game, which now got renamed to Burning Hunt, my team and I are now focusing on adding the remaining artefacts. Those have to be implemented until the 5th of March for the Beta presentation. Since there is not a lot of time remaining, it can happen quite easily for members, in pretty much any team, to get stressed out. This not only results in the project […]

Alpha Presentation

Last week, on Thursday the 16th, my group and I completed one of our main milestones: the alpha presentation. The goal was to present everything we came up with until that point in our game and receive feedback and tips both from the teachers and the other students.
At the same time,  we were required to answer a few questions, such as:

The concept we decided to go for and why we chose it
How we interpret the concept
Things that we were either […]

Finalizing the weapons

Continuing off of last week’s post, I’m going to talk about the various changes and additions I’ve made to the weapon system and how I’ve just about finalized it.
ANIMATION
This week my artists sketched up the final weapon that was implemented into the game and also added animations for all the guns. Adding them to the weapons themselves was fairly easy. I coded in the base weapon that whenever the player fires a shot, it would trigger an animation event on […]