Posts from year 2016:
Weekly progress post #20: That’s 5 months Tags: Games, ESA 2, Streaming, Regular updates, World generator Weekly progress post #19: Rooms Tags: Games, ESA 2, World generator, Streaming, Regular updates Weekly progress post #18: MORE WASPS Tags: Games, ESA 2, Streaming, Regular updates, World generator Weekly progress post #17: Small steps Tags: Games, ESA 2, World generator, Streaming, Regular updates Weekly progress post #16: New enemies & laser! Tags: Games, ESA 2, Plans, Regular updates, Streaming Weekly progress post #15: Lots of new rooms! Tags: Games, ESA 2, Plans, Cloud Realm, Regular updates, Streaming Weekly progress post #14: Slow but steady Tags: Games, ESA 2, Cloud Realm, Plans, Regular updates, Streaming Weekly progress post #13: They work!! Tags: Games, ESA 2, Regular updates, Streaming, Cloud Realm Ludum Dare #35 results! Tags: Games, Ludum Dare, Small games Weekly Update #12: MOVING PLATFORMS!! Tags: Games, ESA 2, Cloud Realm, Regular updates, Streaming, Plans
Posted on 2016-06-30 01:41
…Well, almost. I’ve felt that ESA 2 has been progressing fairly slowly, but when I checked last week, a surprisingly large amount of the map was done! There’s tons of work ahead for sure, though.
Tonight I added 3 new rooms, although 2 of them ended up being really rough drafts just to get to the next boss, on which I also worked a little bit. This boss is one I’ve been looking forward to, because it marks a rather important plot point and I have a fairly cool idea for how the boss might work. We’ll see!
I intended to work more on other projects, too, but ended up only concentrating on ESA 2. Oh well!
Posted on 2016-06-23 02:00
I didn’t really have a good idea of what I was going to do in today’s stream, but in the end there was plenty of stuff to tinker with. I spent most of the initial stream implementing a somewhat complicated lua code for the map generator (which will need some further looking at!! (Except I just now implemented it, hehe)) The rest of the stream was work on ESA 2 without any specific aim but with some really nice results; 3 new rooms were added and I had some time to refine the general idea of how things will work. I also reserved one room for a puzzle of some sort – it’ll be interesting to try to figure out how to approach those in this project.
In the end of the stream I also tinkered with a silly little colour-manipulation thing. It might be too inefficient to turn to use but it was fun to make!
Posted on 2016-06-16 00:43
Work was done mainly on the map generator tonight, but ESA 2 also got its share of new stuff, namely a new room and a new enemy! Needs more work but I’m happy nonetheless.
Posted on 2016-06-08 22:56
Today’s stream was pretty slow in terms of development, but I still added a couple new things, such as a new trap and the basis of a new room. Decorating the jungle-like area has turned out to be really hard for me, and I’ll have to figure out some kind of efficient plantlife decoration that could be used to make it more junglelike.
The end of the stream was spent on working on a little sideproject, of which I will talk more a bit later. Progress on it was pretty sweet, though!
Posted on 2016-06-02 00:21
A rather haphazard stream, but I got a bunch of things done! The most important of these was a new basic weapon for the player, because the old one was rather hard to estimate the range for (although it did look visually pretty cool!) I’ll have to add some more visual effectry to this one for sure but the basis is already really nice due to how easy it is to estimate just how far I can hit with it.
Next up will be finishing a certain area (while implementing some new enemies there), and then… SPACE!
Posted on 2016-05-27 02:13
Today’s stream was extremely productive in terms of ESA 2! I implemented the basics for 3 new rooms and finished one I started last time, along with fixing tons of little quirks and bugs (and encountering new ones on the way!) There are a couple design issues I’ll need to decide on really soon and a new boss right around the corner; in general the game’s progress seems to be really nice! I also did a little run of the game as it is right now and it took me half an hour to get through it all, although I did spend some time just chatting. I’m not sure if that time is reassuring or worrying. Time will tell.
No work on Snake Game tonight because there’s a problem I can’t do much about that’s causing crashes and I really want that one squished before I continue.
Posted on 2016-05-20 01:42
Early day tomorrow so I had to keep it short. Nevertheless, in ESA 2 we’ve now reached the hookshot powerup once again! Some implementation problems arose, though, and I’ll have to look into those before the next stream. Similarly, in Snake Game progress was slow because of a LUA-related thing that I need to look into which is way too boring to stream. Oh well!!
Posted on 2016-05-12 01:16
Fixing the moving platforms turned out to be surprisingly trivial! I’m glad. I implemented the basic structure of this weird vertical, moving room and the one after that. I feel that the new rooms have been slightly too bare-bones but at the same time I’m trying to be extremely careful not to fill them with too many hazards.
Progress was also nice with the snake game; the new snake needs some more design thought put into it but I have a very good feeling about it!
Posted on 2016-05-10 13:35
Here we go again! Cavern of Flight didn’t fare quite as well as some previous entries, but all in all I’m nonetheless very happy with the results. Out of the 1118 compo entries, my game was
#6 in the ‘mood’ category
#20 in the ‘graphics’ category
#48 overall
I’d call that a fairly successful result! As usual my entry ended up being too hard and finicky to control, and those are things I’ll keep struggling with in the future, too, but it was a lot of fun to make a game and that’s all that matters. I’m really happy that I had the time/energy to enter the compo.
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Posted on 2016-05-09 03:16
Pictured here is mild frustration. I thought I had fixed the moving platforms, but as it turns out I only fixed them when they’re moving vertically! I’ll have to do some extra fixing for horizontal movement and during today’s stream I basically just gave up and decided to tackle that later.
On the other hand, I got surprisingly far with a first test of a new snake in the Snake Game, so that was great! No gifs because I’m weird like that. All in all I’d say that the stream was fairly successful despite my tiredness. Hopefully I’ll be able to fix those platforms by next stream.