Claudius Taylor's Game Development Blog

I…I’m so sorry. No I’m not. :D

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:47:33 -0500

I…I’m so sorry.

No I’m not. :D

Color Shot

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:45:30 -0500

I made a game yesterday! It was good to get something out there. This one experiments a bit with some ideas I’ve had about matching colors of shots to colors of enemies. Enjoy!

I’ve decided to go in a completely different direction...

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:57:16 -0400

I’ve decided to go in a completely different direction than before, and now my games will be in Flash (Actionscript 3.1). The blue rectangle is being controlled by me. The yellow one represents and enemy. The gray area represents a barrier in the game, and handles collisions between itself and everything else that moves. The red square represents the collision box when I attack, and if you look closely you can see the yellow rectangular “enemy” get pushed away when my attacks hit it.

I’ve decided that the engine, as it is now, should suffice...

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:06:28 -0400

I’ve decided that the engine, as it is now, should suffice for my efforts at actually making a game. Today, I’ve made a flat ground object with randomly-placed and randomly-sized buildings on it. The ground also has randomly-placed water on it, for later functionality in the game.

Features Added: -Weapons now deal damage to the player -Damage...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:30:00 -0400

Features Added:

-Weapons now deal damage to the player

-Damage done to the player will cause a notification to appear informing the player of the direction of the source of the damage

-Damage to the player now plays a sound

Features Added: -Decals (bullet holes) no longer appear on...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:48:34 -0400

Features Added:

-Decals (bullet holes) no longer appear on non-stationary objects

-Non-stationary objects are now propelled by impacts from weapon fire

-Player hit detection from weapon fire

-Other player with weapon that fires partially implemented (still buggy)

-Other player’s weapons and sounds are emitted from its location and take distance into account

Features Added: -Weapon dropping/picking...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:13:14 -0400

Features Added:

-Weapon dropping/picking up

-New machine-gun-like weapon (which implements the auto-fire feature)

-Camera kickback when firing weapons (view jerking)

Yesterday I promised and today I deliver! We’re going to...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:21:35 -0400

Yesterday I promised and today I deliver! We’re going to have guns. Lots of guns.

Features Added:

-On-demand reloading

-A new shotgun-like weapon

-Weapon switching (and the ability to have more than one weapon)

-Decals (bullet holes) remove themselves after a while

-Weapon impact control implemented (how many objects does a weapon’s shot go through before stopping)

-Weapon fire/auto-fire control implemented (click for each shot/hold down to shoot)

10.02.11 - Weapons, Items, Health and Armor

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:17:00 -0400

All code today, but some pretty exciting stuff

Features added:

-Support for items with health, items that can be picked up and dropped

-Player health, armor, multiple weapons, item inventory

-Weapon changing and weapon change delay control

-Framework laid for damage system and healing system for game objects with health (including players)

-Warning debug message system for non-fatal unsafe operations

Again, this won’t be a super exciting update, but I have...

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:44:00 -0400

Again, this won’t be a super exciting update, but I have managed to get some pretty important things done. I’ve reorganized how weapons and the HUD work, and tied together some pretty big things in the code. I’ve also added a new section, Engine, to the to-do list, which contains things that I need to get done in the code.

Features added:

-Weapon reloading

-HUD now shows current clip ammo and remaining ammo

-Weapon specifications can now be set (fire rate, accuracy, reload time, clip size, etc.)

-Secondary fire for weapons (not shown in video because while the functionality is there, I haven’t actually used it yet)

09.29.2011 - Weapons and HUD Elements

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:00:17 -0400

Today’s programming work was all internal, as it’s not quite finished yet. Expect tomorrow’s update to be much more exciting, as the reorganization and cleaning of the code will allow me (once it’s finished) to add things very efficiently.

Features Added:

-HUD element support

-Weapon settings support (fire rate, shots fired, clip size, etc.)

-Secondary fire

Features Added: -Transparent 2D animations -Decals (bullet...

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:43:30 -0400

Features Added:

-Transparent 2D animations

-Decals (bullet holes, etc.)

-HUD Ammo Implementation

Issues:

-Decals’ origins are in the corner of the projected image, causing them to be offset from the point at which they are placed

Workaround: Make decal images themselves offset

Possible Solution: 3D math to offset the images along the plane of their orientation

Bugs Found:

-Sprite sheets 1 frame wide or tall will not be animated

-Sprite sheets with uneven frames (2x3 instead of 2x2) will not be rendered correctly

Workaround: Both of the above problems can be fixed by making images square, and simply leaving the space for the extra frames transparent

-Decals will not rotate correctly on some surfaces (the problem is due to inaccurate angle calculation)

Features Added: -Fading HUD text -Multiple instances of...

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:32:21 -0400

Features Added:

-Fading HUD text

-Multiple instances of identical sound playing at once

-3D position-based audio

-Position-based dual (near and far) audio track support

-Background music

Features Added: -3D Animation Support -2D Imagery Support -2D...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:59:00 -0400

left: rage face particle effect

zooming in is now supported

right: 3D animation,bottom: 2D animation

Features Added:

-3D Animation Support

-2D Imagery Support

-2D Animation Support

-Particle Effect Support

-HUD text printing

Issues:

-Physics support for 3D animated models can’t be the same as non-animated 3D models

Photo

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:27:55 -0400

Bugs Fixed: -Fixed 3D HUD rendering glitch -Fixed shadows...

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:47:00 -0400

Bugs Fixed:

-Fixed 3D HUD rendering glitch

-Fixed shadows rendering over 3D HUD

Features Added:

-Ray casting now fully-supported

-Skybox support added

-InputHandler now distinguishes between what is being pressed and what has just been pressed

-Zooming in and out with left shift now supported, with smooth transitions