New swarm enemy

This week we have continued our journey towards the beta-version of “Dash Bat” (originally “Heartbeat Bat”). My main objective for this week has been to include the mosquito swarm -enemy into the code. These are tightly packed clouds of super aggressive mosquitoes that will slow down the bat.
These enemies will be very useful in our levels since without them we only have obstacles originating from the ceiling or the floor. These swarms will give us the ability to place extra […]

The Last Signal. Post #4: animations

This post is about including animations in our game. This topic is too difficult to go into much detail. I will therefore only briefly go through the main points of how I (almost) solved this complex area in the game. I may return to it later when I have the time for a more thorough discussion.

I used the existing SFML Animation and AnimatedSprite classes, which are not included in the standard distribution but can be downlaoded separately. The AnimatedSprite class […]

Ambient Pressure: Level 2 Map

This week I have mostly been working on the design of the first map. Which later turned into level 2. This is the end result along with the level design I was given:


My assignment was to hand-draw the map, following the structure of the level design. We chose to do our levels this way because we felt it was important for the feeling of the game to have more detailed maps, instead of regular tiles. I designed the […]

The Splash Screen

Hello Magic Writer fans!
This week I am going to talk about the splash screen for our game. The splash screen is a screen that shows up in the beginning sort of like a loading screen. A splash screen is a graphics consisting of a window containing an image, a logo and the current version of the software. A splash screen usually appears while a game or program is launching.  Splash screens cover the entire screen or are simply a rectangle near the center of the […]

Week 7 of the Piñata – How to convey it

This is the seventh week on the project Day (or Night) of the Piñata. The name is not set yet. My main focus this week has been on the feedback in our game, everything the player will see and hear when something happens in the game. These ties in with our GUI (graphical user interface) that will help the player understand how to play the game.
To begin I made a mockup of our GUI on the background of the game, […]

Meny Knapperna.

Det jag tänker beskriva den här veckan är Menyknapparna som jag kodade.

Jag började med att göra en ny klass och i stort sett bara skriva av tidigare kod som jag behövde till menyknapparna. Jag försökte att skriva likadant som i andra klasser då det då blir lättare för gruppen att läsa och snabbt hitta i koden.
Meny kommer troligtvis att bestå av dessa sex olika knappar:Start / Play. Som startar spelet och hoppar då in i gamestate.Credits. […]

Parsing text files exported from ‘Tiled’ software

This week was the week we decided to use the Tiled map editor software after all. Tiled is a level creator that exports data that can be read by the program to place the correct tiles at the correct places. The main advantage of this is that levels can be edited easily by someone unfamiliar with the code, and coding in general. Our first means of editing levels was to just write numbers manually in a text file, which kind […]

The Animation Week – Bringing the mole to life… and death

For this week, I spent the time with doing various animations for the mole, using key frame animation.
So let’s go with the digging animation. In friday last week, I got some useful drafts from one of the members on how to make it. The animation would be superfast and consist of at least four frames. When I asked how to approach with the Dig up-animation, I got the response that it would not be needed for now, but maybe later. […]

Team 12 Game Development Artifact 4- Menu state

Team 12 is working on a game called DashBat. The game is going to be a mix between speed runners adm super mario kart, the player is in a flying state. To progress through the level the player needs to avoid multiple objects at a high speed and to reach the end of the level in a short time.
 
Today I will try to explain one of the artifacts that I have worked on during the past two weeks. and that […]

Weekly blog assignment #4

Hello everyone and welcome back!
This week has had so many ups and downs. First I had trouble with the structure, then when I figured out how I should write the code I had some problems with the syntax. When I finally figure that out, the game just crashes over and over again. It has not been an easy (or fun) week. But when I finally solved it all I got so happy, for a day, then the game started to […]

Power-ups

One of the real monsters in the 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 be defeated […]

Fancy Mansion – Pathfinding

This week I have been working with implementing an AI for Mr. Fancy, the owner of the Fancy Mansion. Mr. Fancy has a couple of states he enters, one where he patrols a path (we haven’t decided how this will be implemented, but probably with path-finding as well), one where he hears the player and moves to the tile the player was on (here we use path-finding), and a couple of other states where he chases and shoots the player.
Last […]