Game Design #4

Axel Eriksson : Group 9 : Flight of the Giraffa
New week, new assignments…
This week and the latest week I have been working on another power up, not the one with lazer beams. This one contains meteors, meteors that spawn randomly from the right side going left.
When I thought of doing this assignment I took upon my self, it felt pretty logical and easy to do. I was wrong but at the same time right, first it was a bit slow […]

Blog Post #4 – HUD

Hi! The Beta deadline is getting closer and our group is set on implementing all the assets needed. In this days post I am going to write about the process of making the HUD for Mermaid River. The elements that the group had decided should be in the HUD was:

Health bar
Air meter
Scoreboard
Power up (shows if a power up is activated)

Previously our HUD was built up by two rectangular bars for health, air and a scoreboard. A problem we had with […]

Nihteana UV-Mapping

Before moving on to the rigging and skinning of Nihteana, the character I have been working on, I UV-mapped her. Doing this I encountered something which I have not before. Max just did not seem to want to relax the pieces properly, even though there should be no problem with the seams and all the pieces would just shrink and shrink until manually stopped.
 
Eventually I managed to get the pieces to where I wanted them but Max thought otherwise […]

Individuella Uppgiften

Kurskod : 5SD023 – Spelprogrammering 2
Jag har då kollat på eran spelar klass, vilket är er “Captain.cpp/h” source fil. Jag ser att ni har gjort en manager för denna och kör allt som behövs i den, vilket är dens draw funktion, animation, movement, position och collision mm. Blev imponerad i hur ni fått allt att fungera och integrera med alla andra filer ni har, även hur mycket kod ni har vart tvungna att skriva.
Vad jag förstår det som så har […]

Nasty Aliens – Mites

Kära läsare, idag ska jag tråka ut dig med ännu ett inlägg om min arbetsinsats för grupp 17 i vårt projekt: Planet Suburbia. Den här gången tänkte jag berätta om vår planets ultimata fiender och fräcka inkräktare, utomjordingar! Människorna i vår version av den framtida planeten Jorden kallar dessa utomjordingar för Mites (kvalster på svenska). Detta med hänvisning till deras kvalsterliknande och främmande utseende. Ingen vet egentligen deras egenvalda namn, ingen har nämligen brytt sig om att ta reda på […]

BlogWeek 3, The Menu

 
This was an easy one, although somewhat hard compared to our programming 1 course where we got most of our structure beforehand. Up until now we had hardcoded everything in main.cpp because of the amount of prototyping and because taht we needed to be done in time for the alpha presentation. This we regretted. The amount of time it took me and my coding-coworker to seperate the “gamestate” in a separate h and cpp-folder and how efficient I feel I […]

Achievements – again

Lately I’ve been creating my own projects, because I want to have something to do. I want to be better at programming so I set aside some time to program every day. This way I learn new things. For me it’s not so much what I create, it’s more trying to get a challenge and learning something new.
Previously I made an achievement system for Unity, where I used an SQLite database and used a model of the data to create, […]

Saraswati update

Over the past couple of weeks me, Emma and Kristofer have been working on bringing our character Saraswati to life. Kristofer and me have mostly been modeling, and Emma has been doing the animations.
Here is what she’s looking like now:

I quite like the way she’s turning out. I think we’ve managed to capture the concept art quite nicely. We are currently working on her animations, which will be a walk animation, two idle animations, one swim idle animation, one swim […]

v.5

God afton läsare.
Fredag igen och några hårstrån fattigare. I veckan har jag jobbat med att bygga en ”container” för våra power-ups, den ska illustreras som en komet som flyger in i skärm. Denna kometen kommer att fungera på två olika sätt, den kommer för det första vara ett hinder för spelaren, krockar kometen med spelaren så kommer spelaren ta skada. Spelarens val här är att akta sig för den och låta den sväva ur skärm, eller försöka sig på att […]

Blog week #3

Hello, the third blog week is here!
During this week we have really made changes in the visual aspects of the game and I’m going to continue to talk about my work with the background.
This week started with a regular sprint meeting, where we sat down to set up our work schedule for the upcoming week. After it was finished we (the “graphic team”) discussed and created a color scheme appropriate to the vision we shared. It made a massive impact […]

MERMAID RIVER BLOG #3 – Deep Blue Sea

Hallå nästkommande läsare,
De två senaste veckorna har varit, minst sagt, stressiga till tusen! Vårt första speltest resulterade i en diskokub som förde, blinkandes, festen över en svart skärm. Vi insåg omedelbart efteråt en vecka innan vår alfatest att gasen var tvungen att sättas ända ner i golvet. Det hårda arbetet som pågick, från beckmörk natt till en sol i horisonten, resulterade i en lyckad alfapresentation. Vi i ”Team 4” kunde äntligen kunde fokusera inför vår beta som är nästa fredag!
Sen måndags den […]

Enemy Manager and Ambiguity.

For this week, my primary focus was on rehauling how we manage our enemy objects in the game.
Previously, we have in our gamestate stored all our managers in an vector, and performing all the actions that should be done manually. This includes checking collisions against all colliding objects (the player, owlets that are following the player, projectiles, and other hazards like thunderclouds), as well as putting them away in an separate pool when too far away from the player, and […]