After finishing off the gamepad controller implementation in Project Spaghetti last week, we’re on to the mouse controls. Although Project Spaghetti is an action game and a good fit for the keyboard or controller, if we can manage a solid mouse-based user interface, it shouldn’t be a big leap to implement touch controls for mobile […]
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Episode Thirty Episode Thirty of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. This week, for Project Spaghetti, Eric finishes off Project Spaghetti’s controller support by implementing a twin-stick shooting option and also implements a similar option for the keyboard. 0:00 Opening Credits 8:09 Live
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After laying the foundation for player-defined key binding in Project Spaghetti during last week’s episode of the game development show, we put in a hefty chunk of overtime to get the binding options working for the keyboard as well as for the controller. As anyone who watched last week’s episode knows, setting up key binding
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Episode Twenty-Nine Episode Twenty-Nine of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. This week, for Project Spaghetti, Eric brushes up the controller support, smoothing out player movement, and then jumps into the options menu to allow users to define their own key preferences. 0:00
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In last week’s episode of our Game Development Show, we added support for controllers to Project Spaghetti. Shooting and ducking worked fine on the buttons, but a direct translation of 8-way movement to the analog stick was not so great. Unlike a directional pad (the kind of buttons you remember from an old Nintendo controller),
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Episode Twenty-Eight Episode Twenty-Eight of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. This week, for Project Spaghetti, Eric adds controller support to the game. Although straightforward on the surface, it requires moving a lot of the game logic from Game Maker’s graphical interface into
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As we announced in the previous episode of the game development show, with the new year and episode 27 (= week 27), we’ve entered the second half of the season for Project Spaghetti, which means we’re shifting from laying the game’s foundations to brushing it up. Started half a year ago on July 4th, Project
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Episode Twenty-Seven Episode Twenty-Seven of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. This week, for Project Spaghetti, Eric wrests control of the decision-making process from individual enemies and hands it off to a central controller to allow for fine-tuning of the play experience in
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