Game Development Process Week 6

Hello again!
This week I have been working on some assets for the level of the game. This are things that is to be placed in the different room of our spaceship to make it feel more like an actual spaceship and that someone has lived there.
The first thing I started the week with was to animate the powercore of the engine that another person in my group made. He made the Engine and the core and then I made it […]

Creating a UI for Fancy Mansion.

This week I took on  the job of creating a UI for our game. The different aspects that our UI had to cover was a way to count and visually represent score or the goal, visual representation of an inventory for our powerups, a way to show the player how many glowsticks he or she had left. The last two things we needed to show was an inventory or counter for the carry limit and a way to show the […]

Last Signal – Level Implementation and new Room System

This week I have been working on implementing the level files that our level designer has produced. I have encountered a few problems with this, and this is mostly due to how I created the Room System that I have written about in a earlier post.
The first problem was that the text file with the data for tiles, walls, etc contained too much information for it to be readable. If someone wanted to make changes to the level, […]

The start of a HUD

This will weeks blog post will be about the way I programmed part of the HUD. This post will be concerning the life-bar of the avatar, and a bit of the rage system which is currently being improved.
The functionality for it was easy to program and no real complexity in the code was needed. Though some problems occurred while doing it, these problems occurred since I was tired while programming them. This post will mostly contain the problems that […]

Last Signal – Level Implementation and new Room System

This week I have been working on implementing the level files that our level designer has produced. I have encountered a few problems with this, and this is mostly due to how I created the Room System that I have written about in a earlier post.
The first problem was that the text file with the data for tiles, walls, etc contained too much information for it to be readable. If someone wanted to make changes to the level, […]

Working on the HUD

It is the final week before the beta. There is lots to be done, and the team is working really hard to see everything finished and presentable.
My job this week has been to design the different components of the heads up display, or HUD. This means an inventory bar, a hand slot and a way of presenting the score.

The inventory
The inventory had to have four slots, and fit the steampunk theme of the game. This gave me a lot […]

Day of the Piñata Week 7

Day of the Piñata Week 7

Greetings once again! Week 7 of our 10 week project is soon to an end and I have started to see the light in the end of the tunnel. We can see the end of this project. This week I am going to explain my unnecessarily problematic procedure in creating sprite sheets.

I’ll use the medium piñata’s walkcycle.

The issue is that every frame is 1952×1306 pixels which are far too huge. The […]

Week 7 Gardener Animations

 
Week 7. This week I worked on the Gardener animations. As always I was using Flash to animate these. The color is a bit off in the gif’s so they will not represent the final product.
 
Walking animation:
 

The walking animation was the easier one of the animations that I did as it would only require some animation of the feet because of it being in top-down view.
The process of making this animation:
1. First I laid down a rough sketch of the gardener. […]

Week 7, Game Design

So, this week I am still working on the soundtrack for our game. I was gravely mistaken  on the time it would take to actually make a soundtrack from scratch. Since I am making the soundtrack in three different stages, meaning that I will divide the song into three parts even tho they have the same basic sound, it is harder and I cant just pick a song. This is so that the programmer can set when the song will […]

Artifact 4 – Animations Enemies

ARTIFACT 4 – ANIMATIONS ENEMIESin Dash BAT
Seven weeks has now passed since my team 12 and I started the Space Shooter Project “Heartbeat Bat”. The original concept was designed by Team 7. The Alpha is over and we are now heading towards the Beta. 
For this weeks blog assignment I am going to tell you about the creation process of the enemies for Dash BAT. Originally there was going to be three different levels with three unique enemies representing that level. However since […]

Green Warden: Week 7 – Mini map

So this is the seventh week of this project! I think it is starting to show a bit, everyone is growing a bit tired no matter if things are going well or not. But there is not much to do besides keeping on working!
This week I have worked a little with the mini map for the game. Originally it was just an exact replica of the actual game but in smaller version. This meant everything was scaled down, from the […]

Ambient pressure voice logs

This week I have been working on developing a radio voice for our game Ambient pressure. The voice supports the narrative and gives the player a quick tutorial of what the goal is. It also gives a hint of the dangers the diver is about to face.
For this artefact, me and David Crosson wrote a script of what the voice was supposed to say. The first time that the voice appears is in the first level. In summary it tells […]