City Management Game
I'm in the process of putting together a City Building game for the Challenge. The game's required social aspect is that you are being watched by a...
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r1ckparker's Blog
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Deep Sea Encounters - Post Mortem
I've pretty much finished my entry, called Deep Sea Encounters. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out, as with all these things there's stuff I...
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Perfect Circle
Sin and Cos are a programmers best friend! I was looking at other games for inspiration and I saw this image from r-type A circle of aliens spins...
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Controlled Randomness
You probably want a bit of randomness in your game, for example when enemies shoot a bullet or how long an explosion lasts. However sometimes you...
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Graphics - re-using assets
I watched an interesting video on Youtube, showing how iD software re-used assets in their sprites for Doom and how some monsters contain bits of...
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Waves and Collisions
I wanted the game to have waves of enemies, where 4 or 5 of the same type will appear and move in a predictable pattern towards the player. I placed...
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Shaders
I'm going for a slightly different underwater theme with my game, as I thought it would offer a nice change to the usual space ships. I wanted to do...
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Parallax Scrolling
I implemented some horizontal scrolling and found that it was not smooth and juddered about, and I realised my timings were out. I have a viewport on...
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Gamedev Challenge - Shooter with no weapons
The requirement is to create a horizontally scrolling shooter game with no weapons. I thought that I could have the enemies shooting at you and you...
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Psy post-mortem
For a quick game, I'm happy with the results, it could be much better in a number of ways but in such a short time frame it's OK. I would love to...
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Dungeon Challenge Part 5
A quick word on sound effects. I found a fantastic online tool which allows you to create retro sounding effects. You can randomly create a sound...
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Dungeon Challenge Part 4
Not long to go now! Today I spent a couple of hours on the game, and added a few new features. Monsters now drop loot, either gold, spell scrolls or...
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Dungeon Challenge part 3
I've put in collision detection so you can't walk through walls and I added some skull monsters, which roam the maze. If a monster sees you, it will...
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Psy - part 2
I have designed a simple map which is stored in an array, 0's represent corridors (empty space) and 1 is a wall. The player can face 4 directions,...
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Psy - Dungeon Challenge Game
I'm going to have a go at the Dungeon Challenge, and I thought I could produce a game in the time scale required. I have a confession to make, I have...
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Thanatos - the Dragon - old stuff
This is an old demo I put together for a Retro Remake competition, never did anything else with it.
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New Game - Charge!
Hi everyone, even though I haven't been blogging it, I have almost completed my latest game, Charge!You play as a sorcerer on a tower who must defeat...
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Games that will never receive a sequel
A departure from my usual ramblings, I'm going to share with you some of my favorite games which will never receive a sequel. Some games roll on and...
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Updates to existing games
As well as starting a new project, I am quite keen to keep supporting my existing games, to that end, I have updated Deepfall Dungeon with some new...
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