Title page
I finally added GUI elements and limited flow control to the event scripting language which means I can now have a title screen for the game.Not long...
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Byron's Blog
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Overload
I felt the need to add more effects so I updated the particles for the alien explosions - the death particles are defined in the alien's script file...
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Wooa... lef..., no... right.... no... LEFT LEFT LE
I added some more 'environmental' stuff today in the form of plynth1. Each level has a set of classified environmentals the form of which can be...
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Finished texturing
Yay... finished. I have probably over-cooked it, but then again, its the only 'detailed' model in the game so why not? :)Here are the final images of...
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Untitled
This is harder than I thought it would be. I have found an all new respect for the many artists I have worked with throughout my career!It's very...
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Untitled
Modelling done - now comes texturing. Not finished - but this is how it looks so far:
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Time for some artwork
Today I decided to bite the bullet and create some artwork for the game. So I started on the players ship.Now, I am not an artist so this will be an...
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Positive reinforcement in action
I couldn't just sit still after adding the dynamic text system so I had to put it to use. The first usage is to display the score you get when offing...
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Mighty morphing positive reinforcement
While working on our PSP game our publisher kept insisting on us putting in 'positive reinforcement' messages to let the player know that they are...
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First pass at some environmental effects
One of the environmental effects I want to add to the game is 'lightning columns'which the player has to dodge. Here is an example movie of the first...
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I always forget sound
Its fatal..I always forget sound.Now, I already have one of these but to be honest I can't play a keyboard to save my life - but I can come up with...
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to encrypt or not encrypt
One question I have been toying with is what to do with the data files to my game. My ultimate aim is to make some money of this game if possible...
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Need a name!
The core game code is complete. All I need to do now is add the nice bits - environmental effects and other such candy before getting down to adding...
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A small video of my home project
After sorting out the fixed frame update issues I finally made my little movie. Usual disclaimers (i.e. programmer art and by no means finished code)...
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Defeating lag
My day job involves writing the multiplayer code for a XBox 360 shoot-em-up game over Live.My biggest hassle revolves around having to deal with...
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Fixed update added
Thanks for the welcome people!Well, I added in the fixed rate update after reading:http://www.gaffer.org/fix-your-timestepmy version is not identical...
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Fixed rate update
Damn!After some nagging from an colleague I used to work with at Lionhead I decided to use Fraps to make a small movie of my little game in action....
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