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2016 Programming

Polishing the game.

After the previous week, where we had to finish all the important features for the beta, most stuff that is left is polishing what we already have implemented. So I guess the artefact I am writing about this week is polishing because there is not really a lot to say about one specific thing.
For starters, we had some fixing to do with the power-ups we had implemented last week. I added cooldown for the flamethrower and fire shield. For the […]

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Polishing the game.

After the previous week, where we had to finish all the important features for the beta, most stuff that is left is polishing what we already have implemented. So I guess the artefact I am writing about this week is polishing because there is not really a lot to say about one specific thing.
For starters, we had some fixing to do with the power-ups we had implemented last week. I added cooldown for the flamethrower and fire shield. For the […]

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Power up selection.

This week we have been trying to implement the final features we want in the game before the beta. I’ve primarily worked on the power ups and the power up selection system. As I mentioned in the previous blog post, we want the player to be able to pick up magical scrolls on the first level where you must flee. We have changed it bit as we might not be able to do different variations on the spells as we […]

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Power up selection.

This week we have been trying to implement the final features we want in the game before the beta. I’ve primarily worked on the power ups and the power up selection system. As I mentioned in the previous blog post, we want the player to be able to pick up magical scrolls on the first level where you must flee. We have changed it bit as we might not be able to do different variations on the spells as we […]

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Troubles with flamethrowers :S

Hello blog people! This week I have been working on a flamethrower spell/power-up for our game. It is one of 4 power-ups the player will get to choose at a point in the game to customize the witch to their style of gameplay. The other power-ups we have planned at this point are: Fire shield, Empowered teleport and Empowered shooting. Hopefully we will also have variations for each of these that you can pick to make the game more interesting […]

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Troubles with flamethrowers :S

Hello blog people! This week I have been working on a flamethrower spell/power-up for our game. It is one of 4 power-ups the player will get to choose at a point in the game to customize the witch to their style of gameplay. The other power-ups we have planned at this point are: Fire shield, Empowered teleport and Empowered shooting. Hopefully we will also have variations for each of these that you can pick to make the game more interesting […]

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Teleportation

This week we worked a lot on polishing the things we already had implemented for our alpha presentation. That means I have not really worked a lot on a singular artefact but tweaked and improved upon things that we had done.
During the playtest session that we had earlier during the week we got some feedback on the teleportation. In the version that everyone tested the teleport had almost no cooldown and could be spammed to avoid all obstacles which removed […]

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Teleportation

This week we worked a lot on polishing the things we already had implemented for our alpha presentation. That means I have not really worked a lot on a singular artefact but tweaked and improved upon things that we had done.
During the playtest session that we had earlier during the week we got some feedback on the teleportation. In the version that everyone tested the teleport had almost no cooldown and could be spammed to avoid all obstacles which removed […]

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Movement and rotation

The game that my group picked to work on is Burn, Witch, Burn! In this specific game you are riding on a floating broomstick and as such the movement of the player character is supposed to feel floaty and have some kind of air friction and acceleration. I also wanted the direction the character is facing correspond to the direction of the velocity vector.
At first we tried to code the movement completely without using the built-in physics of rigidbodies […]

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Movement and rotation

The game that my group picked to work on is Burn, Witch, Burn! In this specific game you are riding on a floating broomstick and as such the movement of the player character is supposed to feel floaty and have some kind of air friction and acceleration. I also wanted the direction the character is facing correspond to the direction of the velocity vector.
At first we tried to code the movement completely without using the built-in physics of rigidbodies […]

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