In this episode, we limit the player’s powerful circling mechanic with an energy supply that recharges slowly to a certain limit in dark areas, but much faster in designated “light” areas. Since the last episode, we also started making a parallel prototype in Unreal Engine 4, which we show, as well as a second circling […]
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In this episode, we implement the first possible enemy circling mechanic: holding the attack button to create larger and larger preset rings that do variable damage to enemies depending on their size and color. Credit goes to viewer Pandabitz for the suggestion as one way to keep the gameplay moving while still having a strategic
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In the 3rd episode for this season, we get started fiddling with flying controls, and get by with a lot of help from our friends. We also go over our thoughts on the project’s 3D outlook from an earlier blog post and some of the points for us to consider this month on whether to
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On last week’s episode of our Game Development Show, we played around with GameMaker’s D3D functionality to test the potential of the engine for handling 3D because Project Skyring would be a much stronger game if we could pull off a proper sense of height/altitude as opposed to going with a more retro solution. We
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In the 2nd episode of the new season, we start digging into our Trello task list and set up the project in GameMaker Studio, then get to work experimenting with the latest iteration of source control and GameMaker’s D3D system. We were wary of source control after the fiasco in the first season where the
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We just kicked off our new season with Episode One of the live game development show. As with the first season, we’ll be coming on to Twitch.tv two hours every week to work on the game live, but if you missed this week’s kick-off episode, we have it up on our YouTube channel. This week,
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Blue Tengu’s Launch Special and two Post-Launch episodes are now up over at YouTube. These episodes focus less on game design and more on wrapping up the Project Spaghetti project. The launch special includes a look back at what we’ve done in season one, a look forward at things we need to work on, and
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With Project Spaghetti‘s release, we’ve finally completed our one-year mission to make a game from scratch, showing everything that goes into making it from concept to completion. As Eric always mentioned during the show, our goal wasn’t to make a tutorial, but to show everything in an attempt to lower the barrier some of us
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Yes, we’ve finally launched Project Spaghetti out into the world over at itch.io! Thank you to everyone who dropped by our one-year anniversary and launch special this morning, and of course thank you to everyone who has already picked up the game. Our regular viewing crew has already given us some great feedback in addition
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Episode Fifty-Two 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 wraps up season one and Project Spaghetti by adding a timer to the Unlimited Mode room and brushing up Twitch IRC chat support. Thank you to everyone who
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