It sure is!
Re-designed my games directory. It’s a lot better but still not perfect.
Oh well, it will do for now.
Check it out.
Web design is annoying.
#1GAM: Done!
Welp, here it is. Finished it at around 10pm last night.
It is titled “Dead Escape!”
I even made a website for it.
You can even buy/get the soundtrack.
Yep.
#1GAM: Final stretch
I have a goal to have my #1GAM entry done by midnight tonight.
Things I have learned:
- Source control. Usually I’m a stickler for it but I never set it up for this.
- Content takes time. Seriously, populating with some of the worst art and music I’ve ever made was a bad idea. Next time I will refine everything with placeholder imagery and then work solely on content. Hell, the story is terrible.
- A to-do list was a very good idea. First time I actually wrote one for a project. Was very useful.
- Plan the game design on paper first. The actually game design for this project pretty much entailed a light-bulb idea I had a week ago and then coding from there. Actual planning would be necessary next time.
- Think before you do. Some of my classes were built for a unique purpose. When I wanted to do something similar, I had to re-jigger the class entirely. This comes down to planning again.
- Coding while hungry. Still doesn’t work.
- Take a break. I took yesterday off from the project. Was a very good idea even though I’ve been spending an average of 2.5 hours a day working on it.
More or less, I’ve turned out something okay (more on the side of rubbish) due to a severe lack of actual planning. Next time, things will be different. Hopefully.
I will be uploading the soundtrack this weekend on Bandcamp. The game should be up for download tomorrow. Will make a release post. I might even make the 2nd part of my 2D collision detection tutorial.
#1GAM update: RANT!
Urg, I hit some soft of dev fatigue wall this morning. It might actually have something to do with the fact that very little code was needed today and most of it was content creation.
Currently, I would be quite glad if I never touched this again. But that would be bad (since I spent so many years doing that with lots of projects.)
All that’s left is content creation and fixing a couple of little graphics glitches. The “fun” stuff has finished…
#1GAM update
I still don’t have a name for this apart from the working title “Rogue Room”, but here is the main gameplay component so far.
Yep. There is also a “movie” and menu. Still need to add audio of any kind. Hopefully I’ll finish it. I keep getting interrupted.
Sorry…again
Man, I’m getting really bad at this updating.
Anywho, my thing for 1GAM is coming along. Have had a couple of days delay due to lack of sleep from other things.
Hoping to get most of it done over the next 8 hours.
Yep.
1GAM: Urrr
So, I randomly decided that I would make a not Twine entry for this months 1GAM. The theme for which is rogue.
I did start writing something (in prose and then in Twine) but I decided I could do it easily enough in XNA. So, that’s what I’ll be doing this weekend.
Could even be the base for an adventure game engine. Probably not though.
It features some more of my terrible, terrible artwork.
R.I.P Google Reader (hello alternatives)
Today Google announced that they’ll be shutting down Google Reader. I use it several times a day and have for several years. It’s a shame to see such a great service (with few issues) shutdown in place of a bad one (Google+)
I went searching, like many people have after the initial outburst/shock, for alternatives. After briefly trying a few I found two decent ones.
Feedly: it’s been around for a few years, I tried it once before but it didn’t stick (obviously). Set up an account today and brought all my feeds across with not problem. Their servers were being hammered at the time, so I didn’t get too much of a test. Later on in the day it got better though. It seems like a decent alternative (after jiggering with the settings.) A bit annoying it runs as a Google Chrome add on.
NewsBlur: Reading a post on HN, a dev mentioned they had been working on a direct alternative to Google Reader for a few years. It’s quite marvellous. It looks and feels great. It does have a fee to make it usable though. But, I think it’s worth paying. These servers have been iffy since the Google announcement, so hopefully they improve it.
Both of these have iOS and Android apps, which is necessary.
Not sure which one I’ll pick but it seems like I’m leaning towards NewsBlur.
Au revior gReader. We’ll miss you.
Stuff
Creative writing tutorials are bizarre. Never experience anything like it before at uni. Was at least a little bit of fun.
I’m getting really bad at updating this now. Might because I really have bugger all to say. I have a couple of new ideas in the works, unfortunately, all exist for Twine until I continue work on my engine. Which reminds me, I added dialogue continuers this morning.
Basically all that is is an ellipsis to tell the player to press a button to cycle through the dialogue. Yep, divides up the text and everything. Nothing fancy though.
Yep.
(Belated) Monday music recommendation
As yesterday was a public holiday, I kinda forgot to do a music recommendation.
Sorry…
We move from the misty moors of Scottish post-black metal to the shivering fjords of modern Norwegian progressive black metal. The band in question are In Vain with the album Ænigma. The single from the album, “Against The Grain” is possibly the worst track on it… That leaves the rat of the album to be much, much better. Which it is.
Current favourite is Hymne til Havet
Enjoy!
now playing!