Game Programming I – assignment day 5

Created the class Player as a child class to Entity.
Got the sprite to load on to the window, problem was simply a missing / in the file path.
Discovered a new problem though, the sprite is loaded with the background from the file rather than just the sprite.
Found a couple other files to use where only the sprite get’s loaded onto the window.
Maybe work on making the player move later.

Game Programming I – day 4

Continued work on the project for a few hours today, the goal was to print out the player sprite on the screen
Created the classes: SpriteManager and Entity. Entity will be the parent class for all classes of game objects.
Tried making an entity object and load the player sprite into it but encountered a memory access violation which I don’t quite understand.
Will try some more today after a break, otherwise I will need to continue on this tomorrow.

Game programming I – assignment day 3

Decided on which sprite sheet to use and which particular sprite to be used as player model.
Started coding the game. Made a window that is moveable and closes when pressing the x.
Started working on sprite management in order to be able to print out sprites on the window.
Made classes Engine, Draw Manager and Sprite. Need to make a sprite manager.
 

Game programming I – assignment day 2

Decided on making a space shooter.
Trying to find sprite sheets to work with.
Will work on window and player avatar this weekend.

Game programming I – assignment day 1, second post

Preliminary schedule for our work done:
Week 50 : Game idea. Rendered window. Player avatar.
Week 51: Sprites. Map.
Week 52: Enemies. Collision.
Week 1: Music. States.
Week 2: Polishing. Buffer time.
Week 3: Report.

Game programming I – assignment day 1

Started repeating code used in lectures and workshops to better understand their syntax and how they work.
Also started thinking about what game to make.
A lite version of Tyrian or Arcanoid have been considered.

Group work – update 5

Working on power-point. Finished instructions for paper prototype. Helping with the Concept document.

Group work – update 4

Speech and powerpoint mostly done now, any eventual final polish will happen today but at least our spokesman have something to practice on now. Will need to write down instructions for the paper prototype.

Group work – update 3

After finishing up the prototype and getting some more feedback I’ve sat down to help write the pitch as well as the powerpoint presentation that will be used in conjecture with it. I believe we have covered all the neccessary things that can be said in a 5 minute timeframe, we now need to polish it and time it to perfection.

Group work – update 2

Been working on the paper prototype with one of my group mates.
We seem to have gotten the core experience down on it. Now we need to test the prototype to make it stronger.
Hopefully we can do enough of that tomorrow and move on to finish up our pitch for a feedback meeting on Friday this week.

Group work – update

So I’ve not been updating this since I’ve been busy with various things and last week I was sick to boot. Seems like the game project isn’t going very well, I was supposed to get feedback for our prototype today but I was not given a finished prototype to bring to the meeting, instead I had to make one on my own over a few hours, that didn’t work.
Seems like the group dynamic is quite bad, we probably need to […]

Group work – first week

So we’re supposed to design a space shooter. We got two key words, ”thoughtless” and ”badger”. this week we started with our high concept as well as what the game should be like in general. there is much left to do naturally, but at least we have started on it. I’m supposed to write a story for the game as well as thinking of different categories of enemies to be included in the game.
I’m not sure how elaborate the story […]