Finished

As mentioned in my last post I finished all the frames for the intro of “Terminal” Friday, and yesterday our Lead Programmer implemented them in our game. They slide in and out frame by frame, ending on a comic book page with them all gathered before perfectly timed with the music switch to the main menu, of wich he was very proud.
Here is how the finished page turned out.

As I have showed previously I […]

Busy week.

This is going to be a busy week. I have to finish my Scrum obligations, write the Post Mortem and then write another report for the programming class.
On Monday i managed to get additional color codes for a few extra objects in the game as well as fix the issue where items laying on the ground were drawn out after the player which was causing the player to walk under them. I attempted to find out the cause of an […]

Busy week.

This is going to be a busy week. I have to finish my Scrum obligations, write the Post Mortem and then write another report for the programming class.
On Monday i managed to get additional color codes for a few extra objects in the game as well as fix the issue where items laying on the ground were drawn out after the player which was causing the player to walk under them. I attempted to find out the cause of an […]

A slightly late blog post

Last week turned out to be a very busy week for me personally. My sister came from Stockholm to visit and I had a terrible cold (so much for good timing). I am sorry for my post last week being this late. 
Last week I managed to finish pretty much everything we had planned for the environment. Being, so to speak, “done” has put me in a sort of awkward position this week, I don’t have anything left to do and […]

A slightly late blog post

Last week turned out to be a very busy week for me personally. My sister came from Stockholm to visit and I had a terrible cold (so much for good timing). I am sorry for my post last week being this late. 
Last week I managed to finish pretty much everything we had planned for the environment. Being, so to speak, “done” has put me in a sort of awkward position this week, I don’t have anything left to do and […]

Friday's Work

I finished colouring my last frames for the intro of “Terminal” today, since I had all values done and a colour scheme to follow it went rather quickly. I managed to finish the one I started yesterday and the last three ones, now all that is left is figuring out how it should be presented.

Stupid, States and Group meeting.

Another full day of work as per usual, i went to school a bit earlier to see if i could get the States working properly. After lunch my functions for setting and changing states were so convoluted that i decided to revert to an older version too take a different approach to the issue. In the end i found the issue of my problems. When declaring the states in the engine class i had copied the previous constructors and replaced […]

Stupid, States and Group meeting.

Another full day of work as per usual, i went to school a bit earlier to see if i could get the States working properly. After lunch my functions for setting and changing states were so convoluted that i decided to revert to an older version too take a different approach to the issue. In the end i found the issue of my problems. When declaring the states in the engine class i had copied the previous constructors and replaced […]

Codename: Haunted Light – Automatic Tiling

This week have been a really productive one in terms of features completed. First off, I’ve done some finishing touches on the Pathfinding algorithm which I wrote about in last weeks’ post and all that remains now is to give each enemy it’s AI-logic.
One of Haunted Lights more prominent feature is it’s re-generation of levels. Because of that particular feature we need to have the level to […]

Haunted Light – Text and menu functionality, mostly

Hello. This week I’ve mainly been working on adding the functionalities and text in the options menu as well as making the credits screen. I’ve also been working on AI for one of the enemies in the game, but since I’m not finished with it just yet, I’m only going to cover it using pseudo code and not the code behind it. The AI will hopefully be finished tomorrow.

This is how the Options menu looks now. Not too […]

Death

So it is only one week of the project left and there are not much left to do. This week we have discussed what we should lay focus on this last time. So the only animation we do not have made yet is the death animation. We have three ways for the spy and the guard to die: by getting strangled with the garrote, getting hit with a baton or getting shot with a gun. With this we should need […]

Artifact of the week: More stars

So last week I wrote about how we used stars as collectibles. Since then we continued to work on that among other things to get our game done for Beta.  After being able to spawn stars from dead enemies and pick them up we wanted the to show the player the count as well. The reason behind why we rather show the stars than to hide them is that in the end our game is about high score. There for […]