Today I spent around 3 hours to make maps out of the sprites from Ben. As Ben only provides me with the images I have to move them around and change stuff to make them fit into a charmap. I had to remove some details and had to use nearly every free space I could find but I managed to fit everything in. This is an extremely annoying kind of work but someone has to do it…
This doesn’t mean all of the enemies are in the game now. It just means that I managed to find some space for all of the sprites. The next thing to do is actually add the enemy objects, define the swimming and killing animations and configure the bounding boxes.
That sounds tedious. Although I know absolutely nothing about the technical aspects of what you are doing, I still find it interesting to read your updates. It’s like a behind the scenes sneak peak.
Dor-Si wrote:
That sounds tedious. Although I know absolutely nothing about the technical aspects of what you are doing, I still find it interesting to read your updates. It’s like a behind the scenes sneak peak.
I always wonder if someone reads this. I basically publish my svn log here. I thought it might be interesting for some people to see how much work doing a game like this actually is for me.
Btw, I added the background sprites for level 4 to the game. I had to change the sprites again, as the ones I got from Ben were to small to fit the whole screen. So I moved stuff around until it looked decent.
thunderstruck wrote:
I always wonder if someone reads this.
I do. But I don’t comment… because there is nothing to comment on. The development of this game seems to be very smooth. Or maybe you just don’t tell us about those bugs that break the whole game and take hours to discover but are actually caused by one typo in the code.
thunderstruck wrote:
I always wonder if someone reads this.
I do. But I don’t comment… because there is nothing to comment on. The development of this game seems to be very smooth. Or maybe you just don’t tell us about those bugs that break the whole game and take hours to discover but are actually caused by one typo in the code.
I only remember one Bug like that during the Fishbone development. It took me an whole day to figure out what was going wrong. I had that all of the time with GameHero though.
I had some problems finding enough space for the sprites again. The problem was that I didn’t remembered correctly how the font system works. Thereby I messed everything up. However, I found a nice workaround that hopefully works.
Now I can proceed adding the remaining enemies for level 3 and 4.
I added 3 copies of the first enemy to level 4. Most of it is copy and past but it takes time as I have to check the movement, animation, spawning and collision detection for every enemy.
One enemy type done, 4 more to go. After that I have to take care of level 3. The enemies there are special that’s why I do them at end. But I think I will stop for today.
… and I added the last enemy type for level 4. This was an enemy type that reoccurs in all levels, so it wasn’t that hard to add. I will now prepare a short demo level that shows off all enemy types. This is just something I do for testing reasons.
There was a Christmas Party at work today so I didn’t do allot. I somehow messed up the order of level 3 and 4 in the level menu so I fixed that. I also removed all of the copied enemies from level 3.
I started adding the first enemy type for level 3. It is the biggest enemy in the game. I only made sure the animation looks good so far. Still have to define the bounding box, movement and all of that stuff.
