Episode Thirty-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 revisits the gigantic cowboy boss fight and does some work to make it a more epic struggle, as opposed to the boss shooting himself in the face with […]
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Here are some more takeaways Eric brought home from the Game Developer’s Conference early in March. This time from the session “Rules of the Game: Five Tricks of Highly Effective Game Designers” The first non-bootcamp session I attended at GDC involved five game designers going over a trick they’ve each used to help improve
Episode Thirty-Seven Episode Thirty-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 makes the player work for their points by collecting coins that explode out of enemies. 0:00 Opening Credits 7:03 Live Show Intro 9:44 Today’s Goal 10:47
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Those of you who follow the show know Eric was out last week, across the ocean in San Francisco, attending the Game Developer’s Conference. He’s still in the process of digesting everything, but here are a few takeaways from the sessions he attended, starting with the two-day Game Design Workshop that kicked off GDC.
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Episode Thirty-Six Episode Thirty-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 sets up stat tracking for Project Spaghetti, storing all of the information about how the player is doing from the number of bullets fired to the
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Episode Thirty-Five Episode Thirty-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 continues to work with GameMaker Studio timelines and paths to create an ending sequence for the game to reward players who make it through the many
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Episode Thirty-Four Episode Thirty-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 creates the game’s opening by animating the appearance of the cowboy and enemies with GameMaker timelines and paths, then kicks off a brief tutorial firing and
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Episode Thirty-Three Episode Thirty-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 adds a fade transition with a results screen between stages to give the player a better idea of how they did as well as to give
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Last week, we wrote about some of the menu support tasks we handled for Project Spaghetti in overtime. This week, we decided to make the switch from the hand-coded coordinate system to a more object-oriented approach. What this means is that we no longer have to manually write down coordinates for where we want things
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Episode Thirty-Two Episode Thirty-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 finishes off Project Spaghetti’s mouse controls by letting the player shoot when they aim away from the cowboy and click a button, or dodge when they
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