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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Last week, we went over program logic a bit during the live show, but the limited time we had wasn’t going to be much help clearing up the issue, so here’s a proper follow-up. (We also went over classes and objects before that, so if you’re interested, check it out) This introduction to logic is
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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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We talked about classes, objects, and instances in last week’s episode, but we thought it might be good to try a different analogy in case it helps the concept sink in for any budding programmers. Unfortunately, GameMaker with GameMaker Language, the tool we use to make games, uses a terminology that differs from that of
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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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In this episode, we give the player a way to cut the connections between enemies, and then force the enemies to go their own way with their new AI controllers after being cut off from their origins. Although we do manage to get both tasks done relatively quickly, a few debugging issues take some time
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In this episode, we return to the enemy AI to revise how we do our clustering behavior, coming up with a much simpler and less processor intensive way of grouping the enemies that fly at the player. To avoid the processor-heavy calculation of each enemy x each enemy (n^n complexity), we instead relegate control to
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In this episode, we take a break from the enemies to work on landing on islands and separating the ground controls from the air controls. This gives us the base for the later boomerang controls when we’re ready to add them. We started by changing the island behavior so that the player no longer changes
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In this episode, we continue where we left off in episode 8 by making the enemy more dangerous to the player. The first step is to lay the groundwork for enemies to group up into larger, more difficult to surround formations. Although we need a “next nearest” script to get the functionality working, we do
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In this episode, we start making the enemy more aggressive by having them actively seek out the player or zip across the trail the player leaves behind. With the base control scheme in place, we need to make the enemies a threat to the player to put the circling mechanic to the test. We start
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