Planning

Game breakdown: Space Shooter.
 
Objects:            Window || Game space || Player || Enemy || Bullet || Score
States:               Loading state || Game state || Options state
Enemy states:    Moving || Moving and shooting || Kamikaze
 
What is this about?
We have been given an assignment where we are to build a replica of an older game. I and my assignment partner decided to do a replica of an old space shooter (Tyrian). The game includes a regenerating shield but we decided to […]

Sick day 2013-12-15

I’ll begin with that I’m sick with fever today but the progress on the went a bit further thanks to my co-worker. We decided that we needed a entity class because we want to add a background, and we want to make sure that the player doesn’t collide with the player. 

And thus it begins. Day 2 programming assingment 2013-12-14

Yesterday we decided upon on doing a space shooter for our project, and we started with coding the engine part, draw manager and we also began to work on the sprite handler. I am using earlier projects as a guideline and even though many of the lines of code is exactly alike, all the code has been re-written by hand again.

Programming assignment

Programming assignment. We got the requirements for the assignment today. We are supposed to clone an old game in SDL using c++. By the end of this weekend I think it would be reasonable to have a working window and a moving player character on screen.

Programming!

Today we had the weekly check-up on the programming course to see if we had done all the assignments and unfortunately hadn’t done one of the assignments because it was added mid-lecture so I guess I was too focused on my own code to realize there was a new assignment to do. But now after about 30 min of coding I’m done with it! Yay for me!
 
The assignment was to let the user input a string of text and the […]

Let the programming commence!

Started the programming course this Monday. We started with some basic loops and initiations and lastly we made a guessing game where the user guessed a number (1-100) and the game would give you feedback on how close you were to the the correct number. 
I have to say, I wished we would’ve started the course earlier, this is probably the most intellectual fun I’ve had in months!
SPOILER ALERT
Other than that I got into Attack on Titan this week. The narrative completely […]

Making progress

Had a really productive day as a group today, been working for nearly seven hours and all of the members have been pulling their weight to finish the project. Everything is written down, most of the art is done even the PowerPoint is done. It’s just a matter of filling it with content; which we got! Spent most of my afternoon writing a flow scheme over the player’s interactions with the game. And here it is: *Drum-roll*

Going full throttle

Quick update on the assignment, been wrighting waaaaay too much on it. But hey, it’s go big ir go home!

Bioshock infinte!

I started to play and ended up finishing Bioshock: Infinite yester day. We got teh assignment to play the game the analyze the story and determ if it was a three act story or a nine act story. To me it was clear that it was a nine act story because it follows the principles of the nine act story almost religiously (hint to the game intended) 
But more on the assignment in my assignment! I’ve played the game before and […]

Post mortem: Finding the core and steal it’s gold!

Last Monday we got an assignment within our new group to take one game we all like and find out just why we like it and then make a paper prototype of it. At first we thought of adventure games and horror games but getting the feel of adventure and horror is kinda hard to translate into a paper prototype.
After a necessary food break we decided upon Minecraft. And mainly the mining and  crafting perspective but also the community feel […]

Grey 2.0

Pardon my cursing but jesus fucking christ. I played the Battlefield 4 beta and damn the guys over at Dice must hate colors. I would love to give you some examples but for some reason it doesn’t let me screenshot. The frequent use of the same scale of grey in the game is outraging, I couldn’t tell if it was a lamppost on the road or just a piece of rubble. what happened to the bright colors of Mirrors Edge […]

Working from a distance

I’m visiting my parents home in Värmland (located to the far east of the ancient Sweden) but rest assure I’m researching shmups during my stay. And don’t worry, I’ll be back by Sunday I started with Sine Mora, a modern side scrolling shooter where you take control of an airplane with the ability of bending time. The whole time bending doctor who whatnot made me shrug at the game ’cause to me shmups is about reflexes and precise movement. So I […]