5th blog post of 10 Week Project – Implementing Altars

This week I have focused most of my work on updating the game design document as well as listen to possible sounds for our game. However, I also finished implementing the altars in our game, thus this blog post will be about the progress of implementing the altars!

The altar sprite made by Alex Arnberg Untoro.

The progress of implementing the altars is very similar to the progress of implementing the lost souls, which I […]

Week 8 – With Intent

Hello and welcome back, The last week has been a real pain in the ass. I believe I mentioned last week that I got some work to do the then upcoming weekend, I did, and received my payment for it. This also means that I was pre-occupied this weekend and thus my productivity reached a minimum.
This monday I already started to feel the cold lingering closer to it’s eruption point, I had hoped that it wouldn’t break out, and if […]

I threw it on the GROUND!

Missed the post last night, I mostly worked on the throwing function and had a meeting with Jerry about my Programming1 assignment. I didn’t get very much done between the meeting and having to go home for the evening for a birthday. I got the throwing functionality working at least.
Today we have been working in the Game room all day, i’ve been adding doors all day, at first i made every door it’s own type of object and even had […]

The week of the projectiles

Hello, this week I have been working a lot with projectiles that the player and the enemies can shoot. The different projectiles is made of water, fire and wood. Tha same as our enemies in the game. And i also changed the lost soul a little so it looked more ghost like. All i did was to make the body of it transparent.
Here is a picture of it.

The animations needed was when it was moving, when it hits something […]

A Lively Death

We are now on the seventh week of our game project, which means we are making it closer to the end. Beta is due for Friday and our programmers are working day and night to have everything ready till then, unlike myself who have barley got anything to do this week. However, it is  quite a convenience since I am starting to feel ill and is in need of some rest.
Anyway, last week I finished what I believe might be […]

Project Haunted Light 14-03-13

R.I.P, dear tablet-pen. 24^th Dec 2008 – 12^th Mar 2014. I’m sad to see you go. You will be missed.
This past week I’ve been working on animating a short intro sequence to our game. We want to have this short intro so that the player doesn’t spawn in this unknown environment without any idea of what they’re doing there, but rather feel like he or she is waking up in an unknown place, and also to quickly introduce the games’ […]

Before the Beta. Day 1

First day of the week. We decided to do late evenings until Thursday rather than having to do it all on Thursday night(again). 
Today i did the mistake of going after Oliver when updating Git and therefor had to adjust mu code with the changes he had made in his which took over an hour and because of me messing up my updates i ended up wiping part of what i had done during the day and i had to redo […]

Time to worry

Today we had a play testing session during the afternoon but we had to use the more buddy version of the game since Oliver was sick and his computer was the only one who inexplicably was able to run the game without a few major bugs. And such our game was once again not shown from it’s best side but i think we did alright anyways. What’s important right now is to get a bunch of stuff in the game […]

DirectX Leak Debugging

Yo my peps,
I have put together a small tutorial on how to use the ID3D11Debug interface to debug memory leaks caused by not properly releasing DirectX objects.
So I recently discovered some warning messages in my C++ DirectX application that are printed to the debug output (not the console) when exiting the program. It looked something like this:
D3D11 WARNING: Process is terminating. Using simple reporting. Please call ReportLiveObjects() at runtime for standard reporting. [ STATE_CREATION WARNING #0: UNKNOWN]
D3D11 WARNING: Live Producer at […]

Artifact 4 – State Machine

I am done with collision manager. It only needs to be updated as the game is progressing.
I haven’t really finished a new artifact yet, because it is a lot of job and we have helped each other in the group a lot this week with programming issues.
Today I will try to explain a finite state machine (FSM) for AI states that I am making.
I received various books from an acquaintance of mine. One of them is called “Programming AI […]

Parent UI

So what’s been happening? Well for a while I have been struggling with the parent UI, I didn’t really know how get It working and a was a bit confused until I got help and now things looks to be done soon(read more about what the parent UI does in the two posts before this one). So now there have been changes so it is easier to choose what kid that is going to be cleaned before the parents come. […]

Project “Haunted Light” 2014-03-06 Pick-axe hack animation

One more week has flown by so fast and it’s time for yet another blog post. For this week’s sprint I’ve been working on the hacking with a pick-axe animation for the player. We in group 5 decided early on to keep the digging mechanic that the original game concept of “Bloody Badgers” had. Although in “Bloody Badgers” digging was the core mechanic, we decided for it to not play that big of a role in our game. We really […]