Game programming I – Week 4

 
This week we have been building on our second game – Araknoid. We have also started to discuss polymorphism which is what the name “virtual”  stands for. Polymorphic objects are abstract and can therefor be reused by different parts of the program to do their own separate thing. Draw for example does different things depending on what state you are in.
We also lightly discussed finite state machine which is the process in which the program constantly checks for information to […]

Game programming I – Week 4

 
This week we have been building on our second game – Araknoid. We have also started to discuss polymorphism which is what the name “virtual”  stands for. Polymorphic objects are abstract and can therefor be reused by different parts of the program to do their own separate thing. Draw for example does different things depending on what state you are in.
We also lightly discussed finite state machine which is the process in which the program constantly checks for information to […]

Programming – Week 4

This week we have worked together in class on creating a blueprint for a ”simple” game engine. We are going to use this engine to create a copy of Arkanoid. The engine includes a DrawManager, InputManager and a StateManager so far.
DrawManager creates a window and a renderer. It has a functions that clears the screen with a single color and a functions that presents what we have drawn onto the screen.
InputManager contains a Mouse and Keyboard pointer. The values of […]

Programming – Week 4

This week we have worked together in class on creating a blueprint for a ”simple” game engine. We are going to use this engine to create a copy of Arkanoid. The engine includes a DrawManager, InputManager and a StateManager so far.
DrawManager creates a window and a renderer. It has a functions that clears the screen with a single color and a functions that presents what we have drawn onto the screen.
InputManager contains a Mouse and Keyboard pointer. The values of […]

Programmering v.4

Denna vecka har vi mest live-kodat. Alltså vi har suttit med våra datorer och skrivit av det som skrivits på tavlan. Vi har tillsammans skapat en grund till Arkanoid. Arkanoid är ett gammalt arkad spel som går ut på att studsa en boll på brickor för att tjäna poäng. Allt man styr är en platta som bollen ska studsa mot annars så åker bollen ut och man förlorar.
Det som är nytt för denna vecka är att vi fått lära oss […]

2D assignment

Our first task was to create 20 thumbnails from a concept we were provided with. I chose Clash of Heavens, where a regular person gets drawn into a war with ancient mythology and evil forces. My first thought was to design just a regular girl, but it soon evolved into a girl who had been part of the war for a while; which is why most of them are wearing armour. I also designed some creatures, just for fun.

Later we had to […]

Space Shooter Assignment: Dia de la Piñata

Our last assignment in the course was to, in teams of six, create a concept document for a game based on two keywords with the following restrictions and requirements:
Restrictions:

2D (But you are free to decide perspective)
No Gravity (Not requiring a gravity system)
PC controls (Keyboard and/or mouse)
10 weeks (The scope of the production time of the concept should be 10 weeks)
No network (Not requiring network)
Single-player (Multiplayer or Co-Op can be optional, but the game must be playable for one player first […]

Adam Mayes Concept Challenge: Seriate

During the first week of October a peculiar situation arose were we first year students suddenly found ourselves with a week of nothing to do – or so we thought. A day later we were quite graciously handed both 100 pages worth of reading materials and a concept challenge with a deadline set for next week.
The instructions: 
The special thing about this concept challenge was that we had to build a game around a randomly generated narrative. We were offered two […]

New subject and tons of stress!

Hello oh you, blog!
I am currently in my 4th week of my first 2D course.
So far so good, it has been both fun and incredibly hard! As someone who never sat down and really tried to learn how to draw this is so frustrating…Past attempts have been similar to: *Bing, I want to learn how to draw, lets draw!* Then I sit down, try to draw some extremely fancy awesome looking drawing and it ends up being nowhere near the amazing […]

New subject and tons of stress!

Hello oh you, blog!
I am currently in my 4th week of my first 2D course.
So far so good, it has been both fun and incredibly hard! As someone who never sat down and really tried to learn how to draw this is so frustrating…Past attempts have been similar to: *Bing, I want to learn how to draw, lets draw!* Then I sit down, try to draw some extremely fancy awesome looking drawing and it ends up being nowhere near the amazing […]

Character Construction & Turnaround

Last weeks assignments were to pick one of our previously made character thumbnails, and continue building onto the one we chose. To do so, we were to draw our chosen character from loose pose sketch to clear lines, and an orthogonal turnaround as well. For extra credit we could also provide a close-up of the head.

Loose sketch –> roughed out details –> first clean-up

Orthogonal turnaround, with a detail of the sides of the shoes facing inwards

Croquis 2 & 3

Some more pages of live model studies, from the third week in the 2D Computer Graphics: Theory and Application 1 course.