Big Game Project Week 5

This week i have put a lot of focus on getting ready for the alpha showing that we had during the Friday.
I started the week out by doing some research on how i would go about in implementing a gui/hud for the game, by looking at some examples and reading the documentation i managed to understand how to set up a basic hud element. With this i made so that when the player have the ability to activate a mirror […]

Marketing and All That Stuff (Week 5)

This week I have focused a great deal on the marketing part of this project. We plan on having a roll-up for GGC and t-shirts so I have to make sure that we will be able to have it in time for the conference. So I did some research and went to a local company for the t-shirt that we might have on GGC, we made a logo for the game and hopefully it will look nice on the t-shirt. […]

Marketing and All That Stuff (Week 5)

This week I have focused a great deal on the marketing part of this project. We plan on having a roll-up for GGC and t-shirts so I have to make sure that we will be able to have it in time for the conference. So I did some research and went to a local company for the t-shirt that we might have on GGC, we made a logo for the game and hopefully it will look nice on the t-shirt. […]

Big Game Project – Week 5

This week I spent most of the time building the menus of the game, as well as a start of the save and load features of the game. We had Alpha playtesting on Friday, so we had a deadline to meet this week. Alpha for us meant that we wanted all our features in the game, even if it meant they might be in their simplest states.

Above is our current world map of the game. It features boxes that […]

Big Game Project – Week 5

This week I spent most of the time building the menus of the game, as well as a start of the save and load features of the game. We had Alpha playtesting on Friday, so we had a deadline to meet this week. Alpha for us meant that we wanted all our features in the game, even if it meant they might be in their simplest states.

Above is our current world map of the game. It features boxes that […]

Fifth week of Big Game project – Alpha

This week we had to crunch to get our alpha up and running. It was exhausting but it felt very rewarding when we finally had a game playable at the end of Friday.
I started the week with working on the experience system. The plan was that everything that you could kill would grant experience. So to do this I created a script that I could attach to every gameobject that could die. The script works as this; it have a […]

Fifth week of Big Game project – Alpha

This week we had to crunch to get our alpha up and running. It was exhausting but it felt very rewarding when we finally had a game playable at the end of Friday.
I started the week with working on the experience system. The plan was that everything that you could kill would grant experience. So to do this I created a script that I could attach to every gameobject that could die. The script works as this; it have a […]

The Puzzle Manager

Learning from the technical aspects of implementing puzzles and level events in CoBots, I was determined to come up with a solution for implementing the puzzles that generally would be easier to work with.The system had to fulfill the following requirements:

Easy to visualize
Quickly being able to grasp how things are tied together saves a lot of time in the long run and makes it a lot easier for someone else other than the initial author to grasp the system
Easily interchangeable prefabs
When working […]

Big Game Project Week 5

This week I have been working some more on menus, player movement and animation implementation. I have also added some feedback effects to the player.

Squash system fix and broken
Last week I created a system for squashing the player, it made him scale in the Y axis for example when he landed on the ground after performing a jump. This week I noticed that it was not functioning properly. It sometimes looked like the player was trying to have to scales […]

Week 5 ERA Daniel Svensson

Welcome to week 5!
This weeks has been brutal to my team and especially the programmers. We have been scrambling to get our alpha together, it felt like we would never make it but to our surprise and astonishment we did!

The alpha contains almost all the core game play features we wanted to include in the game except two (Snappy and capture nodes). Unfortunately when we were going to display the alpha we had a bug that basically made our latest […]

Multiplayer Gameplay – Big Game Project

I have been working on fixing basic multiplayer gameplay this week. What this means is that I wanted to make so two players can join a server, take turns to do actions, update each others hands and what they play. I had a lot of trouble getting the hand to update properly at first and the cards were stacking on top of one another and you had to drag them to fix it instead of it automatically sorting themselves. At […]

Multiplayer Gameplay – Big Game Project

I have been working on fixing basic multiplayer gameplay this week. What this means is that I wanted to make so two players can join a server, take turns to do actions, update each others hands and what they play. I had a lot of trouble getting the hand to update properly at first and the cards were stacking on top of one another and you had to drag them to fix it instead of it automatically sorting themselves. At […]