In this episode of Blue Tengu’s Game Development Show, we continue working where we left off with the hex grid for our world map. As mentioned in a previous post, we tried out a quick fill the world with random tiles approach, even making it more efficient by localizing it near the player, but, as […]
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Since last week’s episode, we’ve put some overtime into testing out auto-filling Project Skyring’s room with the hex tiles we designed. As we like to make everything we do as transparent as possible, here’s what we did. Our first solution, just to test it, was to brute force fill the entire room with hex tiles.
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In this episode of Blue Tengu’s Game Development Show, we finally get started on the game’s map by creating the hexagonal ground tiles we’ll eventually use to fill out the level and lay them down for testing. The information from Red Blob Games, mentioned earlier in the week, helped us get started on thinking about
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We’ve reached a bit of a milestone this week with Project Skyring – we actually squashed our last known bug. Although this state won’t last for long, it touched off a little celebrating because we are about to dive into a completely new, and potentially challenging stage of the game’s project development: changing the hand-placed
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After surviving Friday the 13th, we finish off the ground enemy AI by getting them to move around and attack the player whenever the player gets too close or makes too much noise. We also put a limit on the range for the boomerang setting off the ground enemy charge, so we’re in a good
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Eric fights through the pain (of a cold, allergies, or a T-virus infection, one or all of the above) and daylight savings time to deliver this week’s episode, where we give the boomerang a kick by making it destroy any enemies caught in the circle it leaves as it zips through the air. We also
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It’s Halloween, so we throw on some strange ears, and in episode 15 of the Game Development Show’s Second Season, we get our feet back down on the ground and start working on the game’s boomerang mechanic by letting the player release and control the weapon. Tasks Worked on This Episode: Control Transfers from the
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Last week, we went over program logic a bit during the live show, but the limited time we had wasn’t going to be much help clearing up the issue, so here’s a proper follow-up. (We also went over classes and objects before that, so if you’re interested, check it out) This introduction to logic is
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