In this episode of Blue Tengu’s Game Development Show, we return to the game’s world and start adding in the tiles for the other room and climate types, starting with the desert and jungle areas. While Eric was away welcoming his son into the world, he had time to hand-draw the initial set of game […]
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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 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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We’ve reached a bit of a milestone this week with Project Skyring – we actually squashed our last known bug. Although this state won’t last for long, it touched off a little celebrating because we are about to dive into a completely new, and potentially challenging stage of the game’s project development: changing the hand-placed
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Episode Forty-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 converts all of our storage and memory-inefficient background images for the different stages in the game to tiles and lays them down in GameMaker. To save you from
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