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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Episode Twenty-Six Episode Twenty-Six 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 puts together the first boss enemy, this one for the town stage, to try out larger enemies that test the cowboy’s drive to survive. 0:00 Opening
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Our big task for this weekend’s show is to design a boss enemy, so it got us to thinking about what makes a fun boss in a game. A good boss is one that tests the player and all of the skills they’ve learned up to that point in the game. Though it can, and
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Christmas Special We put together a special Christmas episode of the game development show to help get you into the holiday spirit. In this episode we plan, draw, implement, and debug a completely new, Christmas-themed stage for our top-down 2D shooter, Project Spaghetti, going through many of the concepts that normally take us several episodes
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Episode Twenty-Five Episode Twenty-Five 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 puts the information the player needs about the number of lives left right into the cowboy character’s clothes and adds a quick recovery mechanic as well
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Starting last episode, we returned from making new stages back to player mechanics and ways to improve the core game experience. We started by giving the player a moving dodge, changing the choice from whether to dodge now or later to dodge now, dodge later, and dodge where? Of course the player can still dodge
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Episode Twenty-Four Episode Twenty-Four 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 movement to the dodge, giving the player more options for avoiding bullet perforation. 0:00 Opening Short 9:11 Live Show Intro 13:19 Today’s Goal & Current
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