Back again!

After a smaller X-mas break I’ve looked into the Frogger Project again.
This time I went back to the Platformer and managed to fix the Animations that i didn’t get to work during the last lecture before leaving the island.
By doing this I now think that I have a plan on how to get it into Frogger.
Also did some State Testing, now able to change state with a keypress. Not that much done with the states themselves yet though just color […]

Frogger Dev. Post 06

We made some good progress today. We’ve now got working logs and a background. I worked on making the logs while Herman worked on the background.
The logs work in a rather simple manner. They move in a constant speed and when they come in contact with the player they use a different update function that takes the player along with them at the same speed. The Gamestate’s update function handles this, to help with this task the Gameobjects have been […]

Game Programming I – Assignment day 8

Started working on sounds for our game. Found some music and sound clips to start out with and put them in a sound folder.
Started making the SoundClip, MusicClip and SoundManager classes.

Visual progress!

Today i added a background object to our project.
This may have been extremely unnecessary as i seem to have forgotten to put .PNG after the filename in my original method of drawing. This caused me to go create a brand new game object for the background instead of just drawing it as a sprite. Tomorrow i will make sure whether i can achieve the same result without the extra class.
In general i feel like we made a lot of progress […]

Block object and Utilities class

The following was made yesterday and I had no time making a blogpost because now it’s Christmas.

So what is have been done.

I have tweaked the GameState since the main focus lies there and not in MenuState och HighscoreState.

I added blocks spawning in a rate of 1*.6 seconds wich will be changed in future. I´ve also added movement to the blocks. I think I have alot more understanding in pointers and iterators now. First I saw an iterator as a usual […]

Colliding with bounds

Now I have managed to make the blocks collide with the floor. But their y values are not equal when the land so some blocks get an offset wich I cant get rid of (visible on picture). I think it’s because we are dealing with floats. I will try to round it to nearset 1 decimal.

I have not heard from Laban since the 23th. I hope hes OK and have grabbed the sounds.My next task is […]

Event System in C++

As a part of getting input into the game I’m working on for the programming course we’re taking right now, I wanted to implement some kind of event system. I come from a background in web development, working a lot with javascript and actionscript and I tend to draw inspiration from there. I always liked the flexibility and ease of use of the event handling in javascript and actionscript, and I wanted to try and do something similar with my […]

Post for two days

While i remembered to make a post about Sunday on Monday, i ironically forgot to make Monday’s post on Monday. So, Monday I went through the code trying to find the exact line that drew the player onto the screen. It became a test of going through code over several classes as i didn’t save the work without the animation from the platformer project. I was eventually unable to find it and i ended the day on a low point.
Tuesday […]

Event System in C++

As a part of getting input into the game I’m working on for the programming course we’re taking right now, I wanted to implement some kind of event system. I come from a background in web development, working a lot with javascript and actionscript and I tend to draw inspiration from there. I always liked the flexibility and ease of use of the event handling in javascript and actionscript, and I wanted to try and do something similar with my […]

Programming Project, day 12

I’ve created states within the gamestate, two so far. They called “GamePlayState” and “GameEndState”.
I made a ScoreManager because that is the next step to expanding the game. It uses to save and load the current highscore.  It works and tracks the following things: current score, high score and player wins (support for 4 players, even though the rest of the game is hard coded to two at the moment).
To get all these things to work the way I want I […]

Levels!

Hi again!
I sat all christmas eve (yesterday)  trying to figure out why my enemy would not show up on the map.
I had made an EnemyObject class and the cpp-file pretty similar to the Player object files. I used the very basics of the Player object and removed the keybord forward declaration and it’s implementation in the constructor. Everything was in order, I debugged and the object was there and its collider at the correct position but there was no sprite! […]

Programming Assignment, Blog Post 1

I’ve started working on the assignment, but I’m having a hard time making the duck objects when I have no draw or object manager which is part of my project partner’s chores.
I made a sound manager for the sound and music clips, but I get a lot of errors saying things like “Error 3 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _Mix_HaltChannel” so I don’t know if I missed adding anything to the project’s properties or it’s something else I’ve done wrong.
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