Week 2: Arrays and Functions

Hi,
Sorry for this late post. It is a week late, but on the other hand. This weekend there will be two posts!
So.. A new week of Game Programming. This week we have gone through functions, arrays and pointers. This week have been more confusing and hard than the first week. I feel that the reason for that is that I didn’t give it much thought, or much time. The second week I didn’t have so many hours of studying as I […]

First week of C++

Hi all,
It’s Friday and it is time for a weekly update.
As said in the post before this, this week the Game Programming course started. My first week has been more or less an introduction. We have gone through a lot of basic c++.
For example we have been through:

Input/Output: Since we only work in the console so for this is really easy, in my opinion. This just demand a couple of lines of code. The easiest and, probably, the most famous kind […]

This is my last week!

Hello again!
As you probably have understood this is the last week. Not of the education, of course, just this course. Introduction to Game design & Game Analysis is soon to be over. This have been a really interesting, fun and educational course. I have learned a lot in a short amount of time!
As said before, we are on our last assignment which have been a 5-week long group assignment where we were supposed to create a game with 2 theme […]

Pictures of My First Game Jam

Well, I am not going to apologize.. Again.. Since I have had a lot of things to do lately with the Concept-project I told you about in the last post I could not find the time for any blogupdates. But since I am here now I am going to post a double-post like many times before.
I’ll start with pictures from My First Jam, which is my very first Game Jam. I have told you about this.

 
This is one of […]

My First Jam & Concept-project

Hello you all!
So, long time no see. As always.
The last couple of weeks we have done many minor things and two major things.
The major things:

My First Jam
Concept-project

So, My First Jam is basically an optional assignment all in our program can do. As a First year student this was my first time participating in a game jam. First year students, second year students and third years students make teams and in under 8 hours we are supposed to create a fully […]

Game ON!

Hi again people!
Since my last post we have been doing much; but especially two things. We have been doing reverse engineering and we have created a game through a workshop we got from our temporary lecturer: Ernest Adams.
Reverse engineering: This means that we are supposed to analyze the games’ systems and break it apart to find the ground-pieces. We practice to break apart a functioning system.
Workshop: In this workshop we got a dream and we were supposed to build a […]

MDA and the road from idea to design

Hello people!
I am sorry that I have not updated what I have done for a while, but I simply have not had the time. I am going to keep this going though and I am trying to keep my goal I mentioned in my first post. “I am going to try to update this blog as often as I can.”

 
Now. What have I been doing the last couple of weeks?
We got our first assignment in our “Communication”-course. We had to […]

The first assignments, done and done!

Assignments:

Analyze the exciting game ‘Space Invaders’.
Learn how do generate a character in the roleplaying game ‘D&D 5th Edition’.

The first written assignment is about breaking down the game into objects, and the objects properties. And of course the relations between all of the objects.
Some examples of objects in that game is: Player Craft (The ship you are playing), Enemy crafts (The ships that are trying to kill you) and the missiles you are shooting etc.
And the property-section of the assignment is […]

Hello World!

Alex Henningsson is my name and I am born, raised and currently living in Sweden. A few days ago I moved to Visby, Gotland to study Game design & Programming at Uppsala Universitet, Campus Gotland.
I am going to do my best shot, which often is really accurate, to update this blog as often as I can, both about how my studies are going aswell as my future games.
If you want to read more about who I am, click here […]