Week of Awesome V, Part 8: Post mortem
It's been five days since the end of the competition and I've thought about how things went and what kind of mistakes I made. So I want to talk about...
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Week of Awesome V, Part 7: Resurrection of the crunch.
So I'm pretty tired at this point, but I managed to add more things than I had originally hoped at the start of the day. So I created a list for...
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Week of Awesome V, Part 6: Save the music.
Today I've added sound to the game. Music is now played for the aliens and the UFO even has a separate more "boss-battly" track. There are also some...
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Week of Awesome V, Part 5: UFO spotted!
So the game has an ending now. It's reached by defeating a flying saucer that can only be damaged by the shockwaves caused by defeating aliens. I'm...
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Week of Awesome V, Part 4: Shocking shockwaves
Today I've implemented the chain-reaction part of the game. In the battles, if you defeat one of the aliens, then it will generate shockwaves that...
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Week of Awesome V, Part 3: ThunderStruck
Yes, that is the name I've decided to give my game. It doesn't make any sense now, but it will one or two days later. The battle system is coming...
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Week of Awesome V, Part 2: You wouldn't hurt an alien?
I'm happy to say that I've successfully added one of the two themes I chose to my game. The aliens! They are created at specific points in the map...
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Week of Awesome V, Part 1: Copy-paste forest
This year I didn't have any preparation post because I was busy getting Tiled maps to works with my engine. This is because I want to make an...
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Week of Awesome III, Part 7: Post-mortem
This is my final entry about the week of awesome where I look back on the game I created and comment on how I think things went.I'm quite happy with...
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Week of Awesome III, Part 6: A final day of stylized secrets.
This has been the final day of the week of awesome for me. At the time of writing the competition ends in about 8 hours and as I'm typing this the...
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Week of Awesome III, Part 5: Let there be light... and music!
For me this has been day 6. I skipped a day because implementing sounds proved to be more difficult than I thought. It does sound simple, doesn't it?...
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Week of Awesome III, Part 4: Throwing bones
This has been day 4. The midway point has been passed and everything seems to be on schedule. I don't think I'll be able to create as much levels as...
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Week of Awesome III, Part 3: First build
My game for the week of awesome is coming along nicely, although I don't think I got as much done as the last few days I still got quite a lot of new...
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Week of Awesome III, Part 2: Progress
A lot has happened since the last post on my journal. Here is a screenshot that shows the start of the first level.It already looks kinda decent. The...
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Week of Awesome III, Part 1: A death a dozen
So the theme this year is "Death is useful". I already thought of some game ideas involving death prior to the start of this week as a warm-up. One...
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Week of Awesome III, Part 0: Preparations
With the start of the week of awesome III rapidly approaching I decided to make some changes to my personal game library snowy. Previously I could...
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