ブーブー豚パイレーツ (26h Game Jam)

We had a 26 hours long work-package workshop of Enchant.js. Mr. Ryo Shimizu and Mr. Brandon McInnis were our lecturers.
I teamed up with three graphic artists and together we created the game Bu Bu Buta Pirates!
Since I’ve only been studying programming for 2 weeks (basic C++) it was pretty difficult programming this game in JavaScript.
I think it took us 17 hours to finish the whole game. There are many things that could have been changed/added, but I’m still happy […]

Programming!

Today we had the weekly check-up on the programming course to see if we had done all the assignments and unfortunately hadn’t done one of the assignments because it was added mid-lecture so I guess I was too focused on my own code to realize there was a new assignment to do. But now after about 30 min of coding I’m done with it! Yay for me!
 
The assignment was to let the user input a string of text and the […]

20 hours of prototype game development “John Lake”

At university we recently received the task to quickly develop a game based on the theme “hope is the path to disappointment”. We had a maximum of 25 hours of disposable time for this task.
I was teamed up with Emma Matson who did most of the design and all the art and animation.  Together we developed the following game:

I wrapped together an easy to use engine using SFML and wrote a simple tile/collision-loader for Tiled tmx […]

Day 3 – Design Design, Scopes, Von Krahl’s and Texas Honky Tonk Cantina

Today’s workshop was going to be about game design and interactive things. Adam held the lecture and most of it I had heard before but what I really want to get from his are his notes on non-linearity in games, which is something I want to know more about. The funny thing that Philip wrote in his notes that I am going to quote now is that “You know you are not in Visby when Adam has to explain what […]

Day 3 – Design Design, Scopes, Von Krahl’s and Texas Honky Tonk Cantina

Today’s workshop was going to be about game design and interactive things. Adam held the lecture and most of it I had heard before but what I really want to get from his are his notes on non-linearity in games, which is something I want to know more about. The funny thing that Philip wrote in his notes that I am going to quote now is that “You know you are not in Visby when Adam has to explain what […]

Day 2 – Error, Noku, sparkly poo and Clayhills

I woke up today feeling really tired but at least now I had a good night’s sleep. Today we knew where we were going so it was not as confusing as yesterday. This day was about technological performance and storytelling, which was kinda interesting in a way but the lecturer was all about showing movies that he had done. I wanted him to talk more about the topic instead of throwing movies in my face. Here’s a movie that he […]

Day 2 – Error, Noku, sparkly poo and Clayhills

I woke up today feeling really tired but at least now I had a good night’s sleep. Today we knew where we were going so it was not as confusing as yesterday. This day was about technological performance and storytelling, which was kinda interesting in a way but the lecturer was all about showing movies that he had done. I wanted him to talk more about the topic instead of throwing movies in my face. Here’s a movie that he […]

Day 1 – Presentation, Maiasmokk and Hell Hunt

I survived the night! I went to the reception and asked for a blanket because as I said it was really cold. She looked at me in surprise and said “a blanket? no…”. She at least said she would look into it and call us when she knew, we were satisfied with that answer because we had a workshop to go to. Finding the Estonian Academy of Arts was quite easy, Philip and I were there in plenty of time […]

Day 1 – Presentation, Maiasmokk and Hell Hunt

I survived the night! I went to the reception and asked for a blanket because as I said it was really cold. She looked at me in surprise and said “a blanket? no…”. She at least said she would look into it and call us when she knew, we were satisfied with that answer because we had a workshop to go to. Finding the Estonian Academy of Arts was quite easy, Philip and I were there in plenty of time […]

Arrival in Tallinn!

Hey there! Maybe too much blogging about small stuff but just keeping people posted if they want to know. 🙂 After approximately travelling for 20 hours we arrive at our hostel in Tallinn, it left much to be desired but I think I will manage to survive this week. The plane rides over where short and swift but the waiting was kinda hard. Hopefully, I will not freeze to death in this cold room(if I don’t write anymore I probably […]

Arrival in Tallinn!

Hey there! Maybe too much blogging about small stuff but just keeping people posted if they want to know. After approximately travelling for 20 hours we arrive at our hostel in Tallinn, it left much to be desired but I think I will manage to survive this week. The plane rides over where short and swift but the waiting was kinda hard. Hopefully, I will not freeze to death in this cold room(if I don’t write anymore I […]

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Things are moving forward. I’m steadily learning and adapting to the constant streams of information thrown at me. As earlier stated, I felt a bit left behind in the wake of the veterans, but the instructors (or teachers I suppose) has been more than helpful, even if the pace is still a bit hectic.
My little assigned sidekick, a supposed veteran (A guy named Viktor), has been a great tutor, but he’s actually a bit of a rookie as well. This […]