Now this is some actual progress. The images are randomly generated and currently I also included boost (random and shared ptr) to my pack of libraries. Enjoy the programmer art in it’s true form. Here is grass that you can go on and water you can swim in.

programmer art ftw!

Now, I’m going to make me some pie!

Mmmmmmm Einstein loves Cheerios

Tags: foodphoto

I’m a bit behind my schedule, this post is gonna be short, so that I can get back to coding.

A few things about the game I’m trying to make:
Name: Colonial Age (working title)
Short description: As you may probably guessed from the title the game is set during the colonial age. The player controls a ship and needs explore the whole map and colonize as many islands as possible.

Gameplay elements:
– Position of islands will be random
– Powerups (like superspeed, etc.)
– Rudimentary AI (there will be an enemy)
– Simple sea fights

I went to the supermarket to buy some food and now I have a pizza in the oven. Here’s image of it before it got in there:

Progress with my entry has been a bit slow – still in rough concept thinking / design phase without any actual code yet. Progress so far can almost be summed in these little editing helper tiles which aren’t even supposed to be any final gfx:

“lol”.

Isometric RPG

So what about exploration? I’m a fan of Zelda 1 where you could basically go pretty much anywhere on the overworld map right from the start. Here I’d like to do something similar to Dragon Quest 1 where the enemy difficulty partly limits your progression.

I might get the map drawing and scrolling done tomorrow. Perhaps player movement (and buckets). Probably not enemy instances or items.

Mr Magical wand will have to do the transparency mask for me. I haven’t really ordered the graphics in a sensible order. I don’t know if the stuff tiles well either.

Now I’m mighty tired. My slow start aside, I’ve been drawing all day and got a decent amount of graphics done.

Exploration as a theme left me wanting to procedurally generate a universe that I could fly about in.

I eventually realised that this way led failure, so I locallised my idea a bit more.

The idea is that you’re a member of a scavenger group and you stumble across a massive debris field. You’re told about valuable items that you need to find in the debris field so you go in there, exploring the place and trying to find them before someone else does.

I’ve managed to get the controls down, done an awesome parralax star field, done the worthless debris, done physics and collisions, done particles and done a little targeter so you know what things are before you pick them up.

Also some terrible programmer graphics. Next up is the tractor beam so you can pick up useful items.

http://www.box.net/shared/bouovfon1t

So there, basic jumping with the arrow keys, map loading, random crappy light effects.

Most of the remaining work will be done tomorrow. I must also think of a name and decide to either add some real gameplay or keep it simple.

…ok, maybe I am.

Current state as of now

I only just got a level drawn and (badly) randomly generated.  And I still don’t really know what this game will be… Oh well! I’ll keep on going.

Tags: denial, panic, screenshot

Ham, bacon, tuna and lots of cheese. Yum.

Tags: foodphoto

Damn. Why do I always do this? I’ve got bogged down in trying to get some procedural generation working and after a good 8 hours I have nothing to show for it

Well, here’s some debug text from my console at the moment:


1 1 10
3 2 10
5 3 10
layer 0
1 1 10
3 2 10
5 3 10
layer 0
# # # # #
# # # # #
# # # # #
# # # # #
# # # # #


It sounds a lot fancier than it really is 😛

Tags: bogged down, console, procedural generation

Spend the better part of 6 hours trying to find a bug in my mapping procedure… only to discover that there wasn’t one! I had set the bounds too high, and it would have worked, had I given it enough time on any of my many tests. Oh dear!

Made up for the frustration by having an awesome breakfast courtesy of my roomie, Sarah.

Tags: food, foodphoto, journal

Progression…is slow

Another screenshot of what’s going on, looks quite similar to before but I’ve done a fair bit of work that I’m happy with

And now it’s pizza time

Tags: food, progression

I spent most of the day sleeping and thinking about a idea. My first idea would be to make a jungle spy exploration game, which kind of stuck

The rest of the day I spent writing an SVG importer, so I can design my levels in Inkscape

My darling made coder’s classic: pizza and cola <3

Tags: foodphoto

I’m having cereal for lunch.

I eat alot of cereal...

Mm… Cocoa Krispies…

Breakfast food for lunch! You betcha!

I had turkey in a tomato sauce (Allegedly turkey parmesan, but it really isn’t…) for breakfast, too.

Looks nasty, but it tasted okay

Anywho, I’m gonna finish eating, then I’m gonna get back to work!

Next demo’s gonna have a world to explore!

ZAXBY’S + BLUE MOON + LUDUM DARE

Lunch is over. On to phase TWO.

Time to get serious.

Tags: belgian white, blue moon, chicken, foodphoto, zaxby's

So I’m just about seven hours into this thing, and it’s going reasonably well. Lighting works, which is cool — when you walk around the map things are revealed as you approach, then fade back into darkness as you move elsewhere. I’m probably going to duck out of here a little earlier than normal (got to catch a plane Monday at 4am, and I still haven’t packed!), so I don’t expect to get too much else into the game beyond some simple dungeon crawling mechanic.

Lighting!

Tags: screenshot

Must not give in to panic. Not already! Argh!

Got something working. Would like to make more than one level of this game. It’s being made in Construct, as I can’t code for toffee (still). You play the little guy with no legs (being cheap on the animation.)

Think I’ve gotta start working on dialogue. The map is done for this level, although it needs prettying up. Once the dialogue is done, the questy parts can go in. Phew!

Got all screens (title, instructions and end) done.

Also got first person movement working with a temporary square (had to struggle with ActionScript for it to work right – blame all the outdated Flash tutorials out there). Not that bad since I’m learning Flash today but not as good as it could be, either.

Created boat sprite (I suck so much at art!), and added boat movement for the player, considering the wind strenghts and direction…

I decided to use 3ds Max to make the boat model and then render it to make a sprite… end result would probably have been better if I’d just drawn it by hand in Photoshop, but this way I get something I can use for title screens, etc…

Think that maybe the boat is too small, but I’ll see that when I had the code for collision detection and shooting and stuff like that…