10 week game project

This week I have worked with doing the parallax background. The one image above is a test of how it might look in the end. We want something like mountains at night with a moon in the back. And use dark colors to get the feel we want for the game wich is lonely/melancholy. We want it to have a cartoonish look and the world it takes place in is old China and Japan, so we take inspiration from […]

Artifact Blogpost

I will be talking about an artifact I’ve worked on this week. I’ve been working on a functionality for hiding, it has been delayed by several things. At first i was starting work on the guards until i checked my phone and saw that Oliver had already started doing that so that’s two hours down the drain. Then Git stopped working and delayed me for another three hours. Eventually i was able to do actual work on it however. First […]

University Projects: Escape 2.0

Hey everyone!
Started on a new university project  and we are supposed to be keeping a weekly blog up so I guess I will start here. In this project my role is that of a Designer and Artist. I fill in niches and help getting bigger parts done most of the time right now though.
So this week my work has been separated into 2 different artifacts if we could say that. My job is to finish both the elevator pitch and […]

University Projects: Escape 2.0

Hey everyone!
Started on a new university project (Surpriiiiiise!) and we are supposed to be keeping a weekly blog up so I guess I will start here. In this project my role is that of a Designer and Artist. I fill in niches and help getting bigger parts done most of the time right now though.
So this week my work has been separated into 2 different artifacts if we could say that. My job is to finish both the elevator pitch […]

SoundRipples, Guard Patrolling and Light-prototype

I have been working on two things today. I continued with our guard’s detection of sounds around them and got our PatrolState working.
I’m having a SoundRippleManager to hold a vector of SoundRipples, which is basically an object with position, volume and time alive. The SoundRipple will stay alive for about 1 second and during this time it will draw an expanding circle from its origin to represent our visual respond to the sound.
When a new SoundRipple is created it checks […]

Suit Em Up Dev Post 2

Well, I haven’t written in this thing for quite some time now, have I…
Some things have happened and I guess I have to make an half-hearted effort to write about it. The problem is that there doesn’t seem to happen enough in one day to warrant a blog post, not to mention that this isn’t relly my idea of fun.
But… whatever, I gotta do this before I fall way too far behind. We’ve pretty much completed the SCRUM plan and […]

Game dev – Programming – Rooms, collisions, pause state, textiles and prioritizing work

Intro
Much has been done with the project, I will describe the different parts that I was a part of. Each part is described in detail in each section.

I made a RoomManager which holds and handles, you guessed it, rooms.
I worked with Malin Lundqvist with collisions between room walls and the avatar, line vs circle collision.
I created a pause state which uses Jonas Lundgrens StateManager, which “freezes” the PlayState logic while still drawing it.
I added textiles that are objects able to […]

The Tutorial

The other day we had a great discussion about level design. We drew the map on a whiteboard showing the bosses and the players’ spawnpoint. Then we discussed where to put all the pickups (textiles) to best help the player.
We also discussed the tutorial path. When you start the game you will get a short but informative tutorial. Have you played the game before you don’t have to follow it, just run past it.

Red dot = spawnpoint
Black dot = […]

Rooms done, and some AI

Today was a good day for my programming. I managed to put collision in all the rooms of our game. There was one room where it didn’t want to work but I’ll check why tomorrow. I probably just sent the wrong file to Tomas (while I made the collisionpoints for every room I sent the files to him so he would implement them). Tomorrow I will make some changes to the Collisionpoint-maker program so he can use it on the […]

2014-02-11

Ok so today I made my States draw different windows depending on what button I pressed (what state I chose). It was fun with many pretty colours.
I also created one more cloud-sprite that lays directly after the first one and with the same code other than that in order to fill the emtpy space after the first one when they are moving (/respawning) from the left side of the screen to the right side. I also made them depend on […]

Project Aurora, post 3, Things are happening!

I have been doing alot of programming and no blogging so I will try to catch up now.
On last sunday I did alot of changes in the code. For better and worse.I moved all inputs checks from all GameStates handleInput functions and the core file  to the InputManager’s UpdateEvent function that Oscar wrote. The group didn’t like it and moved it back the day after.I also changed how the draw function was called within the different states update function to […]

2014-02-11

Ok so today I made my States draw different windows depending on what button I pressed (what state I chose). It was fun with many pretty colours.
I also created one more cloud-sprite that lays directly after the first one and with the same code other than that in order to fill the emtpy space after the first one when they are moving (/respawning) from the left side of the screen to the right side. I also made them depend on […]