We’ve mentioned on the show a few times that overtime can be a troublemaker when using Agile. Not only does it throw off burndown counts (the number of tasks from your to-do list you finish off each cycle), but it builds over time as fatigue, which then results in slower and slower task burndowns. On […]
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Episode Sixteen Episode sixteen 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 kicks off the Halloween celebration early by laying the foundation for the game’s graveyard level. 00:00 Opening Credits 06:25 Live Show Intro 08:45 Overtime Task Overview
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As a follow-up to last week’s episode, here are a few resources that might help with improving your animations on your projects. None of us at Blue Tengu are experts on the subject, so we’re doing our best to heed some of the expert advice from these pages as we move forward with Project Spaghetti.
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Episode Fifteen Episode fifteen 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 the animation for our cowboy to mosey off into the sunset (or an enemy bullet). This episode focuses on the graphical side of things, so
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As we approach our animation tasks, it’s worth diving into a topic that relates to animation, and that’s frame rate, usually measured in frames per second. Literally, frames per second refers to the number of visual “pictures” or screens that are shown every second, and despite our advances in technology over the last century and
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Episode Fourteen Episode fourteen 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 sound effects, through the amazing tool BFXR, and particles, through the other amazing tool Particle Designer, to convey more information about what is going on
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Episode Thirteen Lucky episode thirteen 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 it easier for the player to tell how well they’re playing by showing the point values for enemy kills, and then lays the foundation
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One of the tasks we’ve got scheduled for this weekend’s episode, lucky number 13, is to show the point values when an enemy gets shot (and where they get shot). The reason we need to do this is because we have to consider where the player’s eyes are going to be when designing how we’ll
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Episode Twelve Episode twelve 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, we work to pin down what the game looks like at different resolutions to get a better handle on our future graphics workload, and to do that,
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One of the tasks I’ve set for this week’s show, Episode 12, is to add an options menu to Project Spaghetti. That shouldn’t be too much trouble, especially after getting a Pause Menu up and running for Episode 11, but one of the options I want to include is a way to change the resolution
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