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Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Season 2, Episode 22

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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Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Season 2, Episode 21

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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Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Season 2, Episode 20

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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Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Season 2, Episode 19

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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Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Season 2, Episode 18

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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Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Season 2, Episode 17

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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Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Season 2, Episode 16

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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Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Season 2, Episode 15

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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Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Season 2, Episode 14

In episode 14 of the Game Development Show’s Second Season, we get enemies to start merging into larger and clusters. We start by ensuring enemies tend to drift together by making them seek each other out, then we handle the collision event and transfer enemies from one core to another, though we do leave the

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Blue Tengu’s Live Game Development Show – Season 2, Episode 13

In this episode, lucky #13, we build a charge across the networked tendrils linking enemies so that if the player tries to cut them at the wrong time, they take damage. We start by making the enemy core controlling all of the units send a charge signal down through the enemies, and then the enemies

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