Post #3 – Crosshair

This week marked an important week for my team and I. We had an important deadline which was alpha. Alpha meant that the game had to be playable and include basic functionality. Luckily to make a functioning game there was not so much stress on the graphics students as there was for the programmers and game designers as basic functionality did not depend on working animations. Nonetheless we still had work I aimed to complete.
I decided that for the alpha […]

Player damage-feedback

One artifact that I have been working on this week is “player damage”. If a player gets hit by an enemy in the game, there needs to be feedback so that they know they got hurt and have to move away.
In our current version of the game, the feedback is very simple. When an enemy collides with the player, we turn the player sprite red for av brief moment, then back to the original color again.

Previous implementation of the player taking damage. We […]

Blog Post #5

“Chill Week”
Since the beta presentation, I have felt a huge relief both for the better and the worse. The current version of the project is on my laptop which I sadly don’t have in reach right now so there will be no pictures in this one, but will edit the post once I get the chance and add one.
I feel like the game is almost done, all that is left is some minor bug fixes, animations and a complete pause […]

Almost at the finish line! #5SD064

It’s weird, this is the last week before our game should be finnished and I don’t know what to do! Last week it felt like I had a gazillion things to do and I had to crunch to get them done. Now It’s just polishing small things, it doesn’t feel as it is as much work as last week. But shouldn’t it be the opposite? The week before the hand in should be the most stressfull? We have a game […]

Sound Settings (Coding) – Week 5

Now that we are slowly closing in to the final release of the game, one of the leftover tasks left to get involved with, are the sound settings of the game. Namely, i am talking about the master volume of the game, as well as the music volume and the SFX volume of it. As everyone is probably familiar with, there are always sounds in games that can be intrusive to different people (explosions or shooting for example), so the […]

Thoughs on my leadership

Today’s Blogpost
Since this will be one of my last posts for awhile I was considering doing this as a recap of what I have done good and what I need to improve for next time.
First of all I think that my team has made a good game and that I feel proud to have been part of that team. The effort and dedication they have put in to make it possible is something I admire and feel will make them […]

How To Use GitHub

GitHub is a software that lets several people share and alter files like images and C#. This makes it so multiple people can work on the same project at once on different computers, at any time any were. You can create branches of the project, copies of the original files so testing can be done without the risk of destroying anything. These branches can be re introduce to the main files, merging them.
When getting GitHub you get GitHub and Git […]

Getting ready for the final test – Week 5

Hello!
I will start this post by saying that I really enjoyed playing the game at the beta presentation, the crowd laughed, applauded, everything went great.
As usual, I will show you the current state of the game:

The game is almost complete. The days that remain are for polishing this gem. I will talk about what was added, since the last post, and what I will continue working on.
There is a beautiful sound that can be heard when you’re getting close to […]

Particle effects

Right then, fifth (and final?) blog post. This week I’ve been doing mostly small fixes and balancing changes to the game as I’ve found them, leaving me with less time than I’d hoped to work on particle effects. Nevertheless I have made some progress, and learned a lot. So let’s jump into it! (Note: While the featured image is a particle effects it aint something I made. I just wanted to show what CAN be done using particle effects.)
What?
So what […]

What about a title?!

Much the same as last week, this week’s sprint consisted mainly of finishing up some small stuff here and there. A few of the bigger approaches this week were the design and creation of a title, which we had completely forgotten about, and an animated intro to provide a better explanation for the story. In this week’s blog post I am thus going to talk about multiple subjects.
The idea of the animated intro came quite late into the project, too […]

Main menu

This time I will adress how I made the initial scene with my main menu and the belonging artefacts/buttons. I had a dialogue with the designer and the other members of my team about how we thought about the look of the main menu. I then went home and made some initial sketches traditionally and then made different colour sketches and compositions for the image in Photoshop. When I was happy with the result I presented a clean and clear […]

Week 5 – Polish

This week and the week before it(and probably next week as well) I and the others in the group of Quetzalcoatl have been working on polishing our game. There are still a few things needed to be drawn, such as the third enemy and its ammo and a few animations still need to be added. But, what I was asked by my group to do until the final was to polish up the background and the sign we need for […]