In this specially condensed episode of Blue Tengu Unplugged, Eric stays off camera to protect the ears of children while he gets stomped and stomped again in Dark Souls 2. Eric has long had a love-hate relationship with the Souls games. When he first played Demon’s Souls to see what the hype was about, he […]
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It has been awhile, but Christmas seems the right time of year to post up some new Unplugged episodes. This week, we have Valiant Hearts and Deadly Premonition. First, Eric warps back through time to the Great War to experience its horrors through the deep stories of the characters in the side-scrolling adventure game, Valiant
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In this two-part episode of Blue Tengu’s Game Development Show, we celebrate Christmas by implementing snow and ice terrain into our maps, giving Pandabitz’s heligator a Santa hat, and then bringing back Twitch chat functionality from our Season One game, Project Spaghetti. First, in part one, we modify the heligator enemy to be a little
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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been adding a lot of randomness to our game, Project Skyring. In addition to the standard random appearance of enemies and their configurations, we’re also randomly generating the hex grid islands that form our map’s terrain. These hex tiles include beaches for landing and taking off, plains for quick
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In this episode of Blue Tengu’s Game Development Show, we move away from individual islands and set up our first room transition because we’re going to need the breathing room to make a giant, explorable world without overflowing the memory on players’ computers. For the moment, moving from room to room will work better for
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In this episode of Blue Tengu’s Game Development Show, we start saving and loading our randomly generated islands to files and attempt to find some ways to make the generation process more efficient. Our attempt at front-loading before the stage begins doesn’t work out so well, so finding ways to cut down on the frame-stoppage
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In this episode of Blue Tengu’s Game Development Show, we take our random hex island landscapes and give them a few rules to make them more natural – and easier on the player too – based on some of the rules we considered in this post. The first step is to get the different terrain
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This coming episode, we’ll need to start working to make the islands we drop on the map more natural, which is going to require some hex rules. Currently we have a map composed of the following hex tiles: none = ocean, landing strip (start, middle, end), ground, forest, mountain, light (where light can overlap other
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