“The Art of Screenshake” – Jan Willem Nijman Jan Willem Nijman, one of the geniuses behind Vlambeer has a lecture that sums up many of the tricks game designers have used for years to make their games “feel better” in addition to a few that give Vlambeer games their distinct style. From the 30 tips […]
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Episode Twenty-Three Episode Twenty-Three 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 brushes up the alien laser gameplay, making it clearer to the player what they need to do to survive the alien onslaught. 0:00 Opening Credits 7:57
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Episode Twenty-Two Episode Twenty-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 continues work on the alien laser weapon, getting it to fire as you’d expect a laser would, getting it to sweep in an arc, and getting
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For our top-down 2D cowboy shooter, Project Spaghetti, we began to introduce a new enemy type, the alien, that behaves differently from the other enemies in two ways: it has a shield, and it fires a laser. Our goal for the laser is to have a weapon that takes the player’s position, begins to charge,
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Episode Twenty-One Episode Twenty-One 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 gets started making the aliens in the night level feel more like aliens with reflective shields and the beginnings of the laser attack. 0:00 Opening Credits
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Episode Twenty Episode Twenty 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 prepares some crystal bumpers and the rough assets for the night level, including a few variations of aliens to find the one that fits. For a
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On last week’s show, episode 20, we roughed up five aliens with the help of our Twitch crew (thank you Pandabitz!) and came to the conclusion that the fifth and final one – a mix of the original idea with the large head/narrow body idea was the way to go. We’ll be implementing the gameplay
Episode Nineteen Episode nineteen 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 fights his cold by heading out to the desert to implement the gameplay, including angry cacti and armored scorpions, for the level we prepared graphics for
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Episode Eighteen Episode eighteen 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 whips up the rough graphics for the third type of level: the desert, which consists of bleached bone and cacti bumpers as well as the armored
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Episode Seventeen Episode seventeen 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 continues the Halloween celebration by finishing off the game’s graveyard level despite a naughty ghost’s efforts to mute his microphone. The video will have annotations to
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