Week 9 – With Intent

Almost at the release, and that persistent sickness that haunted me last week is now gone, which means my productivity increased as well.
This week I’ve mostly been working with the SoundManager (or more accurately: the SoundEntity and MusicEntity), the version we had was working up ti’ll Beta, but in the final, we need a listener for the sound, otherwise the sound of the guards steps would be heard from anywhere on the map, that would just be…. strange.
Now to the […]

Sound and music!

Hello again!
So this week I have been working on getting  for our game. It is harder than I thought, because if I have too many sounds in the game it just sounds annoying and becomes frustrating to play. What I need to remember is what kind of game is it? Is it important to have sound for footsteps? Or hearing scream when player gets hit? Things like that you need think about when you implementing sounds. I also have to […]

Artifact Pos 6 – High-Score

Sound and music!

Hello again!
So this week I have been working on getting sound for our game. It is harder than I thought, because if I have too many sounds in the game it just sounds annoying and becomes frustrating to play. What I need to remember is what kind of game it is. Is it important to have sound for footsteps? Or hearing a scream when player gets hit? Things like that you need think about when you implementing sounds. I also […]

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 […]

Something different

I did not know I would ever get to say this, but I am actually running low on work. The last few weeks the amount of work I had to do have been getting less and less. I am afraid I will have to dig up something old to write about next week.
Anyway, this week I did something a little bit different, I made the sketch of the background for the options menu. I do not usually do very good […]

Polish, polish, and more polish

I’m running out of things to write about! Since we’re getting closer and closer to final, there are no “huge new features” that can be written about, and most of the work I currently do is polish behind the scenes, which doesn’t really make for good writing material. However, there are some things that make for good screenshot material, so I guess I’ll combine some artifacts into one post.
Firstly, as a followup to last week’s post, we have implemented some […]

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 […]

Escape – Group 4 – Week 9 – Level Editing – Part 2

3rd week working on the level design. With two weeks left on the project, I was supposed to spend the rest of the time to finish the last, largest and most complex level in the game. Instead, I spent most of the week to fix a mistake I missed last week.
When using the level editor, I sett the walls and outside boundaries by them dividing it into rectangles. I sett these rectangles by choosing coordinates for the upper left corner […]

Finishing touches

So last blog post I made I talked about me being sick and equip, item and weapon manager. Because I got sick I was not able to finish them in time of the beta but being in a team a other teammate took the job so those are now finished and looking good.
So the game is now almost finished and now we are adding the finishing touches. I got two artifacts to make this week and one of them I was […]

Making a Game Part 6 – Reconfigurable Hotkeys

Hello and welcome to this second to last blog post on the makings of this game.
So, this week I had some trouble deciding on which artifact to post about as I have been mostly fixing some issues and various bugs in the game, such as having no ammunition if you restart the game after winning and adding a small high-score system to motivate the player not to kill the guards as you now get a ninja-reward if you manage to complete the […]