Game Development – Introduction: Week 8

With soon 10 weeks since the start of the project we’re now entering the final phase. For me that has meant a considerable amount of stress, with other courses taking up a large portion of my time but also time to go back and do some more low-key work redesigning some assets so this week I will be speaking about the seeds and the seed inventory-part of the GUI.
When I first drew the seeds, it was the night before the GDD-hand […]

Design for Magic Writer. Blog post 6, Design Document

No one ever reads the design document…The tale of a game designerWelcome back to another Magic Writer design blog post! This week is the last one and I’ll be writing a more overarching post about our teams design document.
I’m the lead designer for magic writer, and in the early stages of our project I was the sole designer. I tasked myself with writing the whole design document and doing all the design work. This turned out to be much harder […]

Game Production: Feature 6

This week I have been working on the end screen, it is the screen you get when you lose the game, and since this is a “no victory” game, you will see this screen a lot. Therefore I really wanted it to look nice. In the end of this game you will lose your “Life tree” so I wanted that to be represented in the Image, It is shown in the middle as a stump. It has a shaft of […]

The Fancy Mansion Heist: Final Animations

This’ll be the last blog post I write about the game my team and I are currently working on, called the Fancy Mansion Heist. By this point I’ve explained what the game is about several times, but let us do a quick recap: You play as a burglar breaking into the luxurious mansion of Mr. Otto von Fancy. Your objective? To steal as many valuables and as much cash as you can without getting caught by Otto, who is wandering […]

”In a [alien tongue] ravaged by [plant tables] our only solace is [different colored tiles]”

Okay so for this week I finished up Alien02 by giving it a tongue.

The tongue comes in two parts: the body and the head. The body is supposed to be stretched out while the head will just look menacing as it is extruded towards the player. There are barely any details on either the head or the body of the tongue simply because they need to be so small that details really does not fit on them. […]

Space Shooter Project. Blog 6. Level Logistics

So for this blogpost I am going to go through some logistical solutions regarding our level design. We have so far had a few problems in structuring our level. This is mainly due to the fact that we lack a proper tilemap. Hence we are placing interactive objects through hard coding. This makes moving objects around and testing different level structures very tedious. In addition to this we have certain graphical aspects of our level which needs to correspond with […]

Week 9 – Power up

Hello hello!
So during this and the past week I have been working on one of our power ups. In Magic Writer there are three power ups, one multi shot, or lightning, which kills all monsters on screen, the second one is freeze, which as it sounds, freezes all monsters and the third one called piercing, that kills all monsters in a specific lane. The later one is the one I have been working on.
When activating this power up it will […]

Spelutveckling #5

Det är svårt att välja en artefakt att skriva om denna vecka eftersom att vi just nu jobbar med att förbättra det sista på spelet som bland annat att förbättra features, byta ut placeholder ljud och sprites och ta bort minnesläckor. Så jag kommer bara gå igenom vad jag har jobbat på för förbättringar till spelet denna vecka.
så till och börja med har jag denna vecka jobbat på att byta ut placeholder ljud i vårat spel Magic Writer. Jag har […]

Tutorial

This week I’ve been implementing the tutorial for our game Trespawsser, and for change I’m going to focus on the design aspect rather than the coding aspect of this artifact, however I will briefly touch on the code as well.
The tutorial is pretty standard, and nothing I am particularly proud of, and I will come back to why that is later.
The tutorial is built in the main level, so there is no external “training area”. This is because we wanted […]

Sista blogginlägget

Denna vecka har varit rätt seg för mig för har legat hemma med feber ett par dagar och bara mått riktigt kasst. Som tur är är det inte så mycket programmering kvar innan final nästa vecka! Så jag har helt enkelt fokuserat på kompletteringen av design dokumentet samt att jobba på de två rapporter som jag ska lämna in nästa vecka.

Jag har skrivit lite om design dokumentet tidigare här, det var tre saker som behövdes kompletteras och det var:

GUI. […]

Dev Log VI

Mole munch är vår tagning på hur man gör ett arkadigt mullvadsspel där du skall undvika fienden som studsar mot väggarna och plocka upp grönsakerna. Man kan vara under jord där man är halvt skyddad från mullvadsfångarna. Ifall de ser en jordhög som man lämnar efter sig så kommer dem att fylla den med vatten.
Det grafiska uttrycket som vi söker till spelet är tänkt att vara av den enklare och mer tecknade stilen. Detta eftersom vi vill få spelaren att […]

The Last Signal. Post #6: AI for enemy type 2

This is the last post which is required in the course 5SD033 – Introduction to Game Development.
Over the period of about 2 months, our game, “The Last Signal”, has evolved from nothing to almost a playable game – with colourful backgrounds, vivid animations for the player and the enemies, power-ups  and a room transition system. The game employs data-driven object creation (rooms, animations and sound effects are created during run-time from data in external text files), some interesting AI and player movement control with the mouse.
There […]