Less than good week…

This week I have been doing minor stuff. I haven’t done much since I shall not continue this education after the summer. But since I have just done some minor stuff this week, then I shall just write about the making of a power up that I made to the group.
We talked about in the group that we wanted to have a power up in the form of a disco ball that auto target and destroy the enemy. I […]

Level 7 – Workflow

In lack of anything better to write, the blog post of this week will focus on the actual workflow following designing of a level. This will show the seventh – and final – level designed for the game. With a high probability that the level will not even make it to the final product, I designed it to test all of the player’s abilities and knowledge relating to the game.
 
The game is set to feature three types of enemies and […]

The Last Signal. Post #5: full animation system implementation

In this post, I’m going to go into the details of creating a full-blown animation system for our game, something I had promised to do sometime in the future in the previous post.

How animations work in (2D) video games
In video games, the effect of animation is achieved by very quickly switching between pictures which depict the same character/object/effect etc. at slightly different times. If switched sufficiently quickly, the sequence of frames will give the impression of smooth continuous motion.
In our […]

Animations

Spritesheet containing some of the monsters for our game

Magic writer is a game concept me and a group of other people are developing.
In this you play as a magician that has a holiday on a tropical beach. Unfortunately he is interrupted by monster invading the beach. Ah no holiday this time. The magician is skilled in summoning magic. So he uses this to summon objects and throwing them with magic on the monsters. By doing this the monsters will […]

Animating a huge sound wave

In my team’s space shooter game, there will be a huge attack which will swipe the whole screen and destroy any crystal enemies that stands in its way. The player has to charge the attack by repeatedly tapping  the 1-key on the keyboard and then fire it by pressing the E-key. Since the player avatar is a singing dragon, the attack will be a big sound wave.
My first idea was to have big waves that makes the whole screen move. So […]

Animating a huge sound wave

In my team’s space shooter game, there will be a huge attack which will swipe the whole screen and destroy any crystal enemies that stands in its way. The player has to charge the attack by repeatedly tapping  the 1-key on the keyboard and then fire it by pressing the E-key. Since the player avatar is a singing dragon, the attack will be a big sound wave.
My first idea was to have big waves that makes the whole screen move. So […]

GAME DEVELOPMENT WEEKLY BLOG POST NR5. MAIN MENU CONTINUE

I started this week work where I left it the other week. So this mean I continue on the main menu and the background. I want it to be as clean as possible for our beta deadline which is this Friday this week.
The background from last week was pretty much done except the colors and some shading. I am working with Photoshop and there for I am using a lot of layers. I will try to explain what a layer […]

Doors and keys

The past few day I’ve been working on fixing the doors and the keys in our space shooter. One of my programing colleges, Andreas Lundmark (link to his blog here), had been working on the base of both the doors and the keys, however since he got stuck with the coding and had to work on other parts of the game, such as sound and the menu of the game, I decided to take a look the […]

Week 8: Firing the Tesla gun

Above, left: Old gun colour scheme. Above, right: New gun colour scheme.
This week I have spent most of the time working on the shoot animation for Otto. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, the turtle Otto (who owns the mansion that the player is breaking into) has a Tesla gun which he uses to shoot the player once detected and within range. The gun is supposed to have a bit of a charge time before it can be fired, allowing the player […]

Last week before Beta presentation, adding a tutorialscreen

Hello reader! Compared to how we felt one week before our Alpha presentation, our group is feeling a lot better when we go into the Beta presentation. During the Alpha presentation, we had only really basic gameplay without objectives, and no graphical implementation at all. We also lacked things like powerups and a projectile. To be fair, it didn’t look like a mole doing anything at all, it was just a square picking up squares being chased by squares. While […]

Blogpost V – Fancy Mansion

This week on implementing items with the avatar animations.
My task this week has been to implement all the stealable items with the protagonist avatar animations. This week was a bit different since we have the Beta presentation in Friday and our sprint plan stretches through the weekend. This meant I had to prioritize what artefacts to do first in order to maybe implement them in the game in time for the presentation. My tactic thou were to first implement the […]

Week 8 – Pause Screen

So we are closing up on the Beta presentation and during this week I have been working on the pause screen for our game Magic Writer.
In our group we have divided our graphical tasks in three stages to get a more solid and uniform art style. One person do a sketch, another one puts colour and shading on it and the third one finishes it up and gives it clean lines. We have been trying this method out for a […]