pmprog
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My son has been asking me to make him a game, and he's even drawn me some pictures, which have been converted to sprites. So I thought I'd use the jam to come up with a titlescreen.
My plan is to have a knight jumping through the screen, and slashing it with his sword. Here's some rough SVG to define some shape at the three phases of animation. I haven't worked with affine sprites on the GBA yet, but I'll have a look so I can zoom him in.
I've not had too much time to work on it so far, but hopefully working with some rough graphics to get the flow right first is the best way of doing it.
Awesome, nice work, already set everything up :cheesygrin:
I've been watching some C64 intros to get some ideas. Might have a scoot at some Amiga too, and maybe a few other platforms
Great stuff... Thanks
Yeah, I had to fix a few things and add an extra function to the input controller, but overall, I think it puts me in a good starting point to build a game-maker tool on top too.
I am a little confused over the music bit though... there was no music in the game, I didn't even get around to picking one...
Oh...
I didn't realise I'd left that in the GBA version. That's Ma2e/DSR's music for the Luma game I ported to the GBA. I was using it as a stop-gap whilst I worked on the game part.
I'm a little torn now on whether to try and finish it off a bit now there's no time constraints, however, it feels a little bit odd to work on a Christmas game in Janurary.
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exelotl wrote:
It's really coming together! Entities all seem to start & stop very suddenly in the video, so maybe some horizontal acceleration/deceleration would be good? Picking up the goblins is pretty funny and unique lol, will be fun to see how that fits into the gameplay. Good luck on the last day!
Yes, I considered the physics "workable" with a plan to review them if I had time... we've been out with the family most of the day, so just not been able to finish the more important parts.
I also discovered that due to the way I coded player states, you could jump super high by throwing an object at the early part of the jump, because when the play moved into the Throwing state, momentum carried on, but no physics were applied (so acceleration basically paused). Would definitely do that differently next time
Well, the jam is pretty much over, or at least it is for me. I'm not going to have any more time for coding. Here's the final release (containing GBA, Win64 and Linux64 builds). Unfortunately, it is in no way a complete game, or even a game in the slightest. I removed the "random" AI to start building rule-based AI, but was out of time, so now the goblins don't do anything at all. I'll upload here just for the sake of "completing" the secret santa jam. It's just a shame I couldn't have got more of a game into it...
https://tins.amarillion.org/entry/269/
I now have presents in the level, and goblins! The goblins don't have any AI (other than every 16 frames pick something new).
An unintended "feature" I found out whilst testing was that you can be picked up by the goblins, and vice versa. Could lead to some interesting gameplay, so I'm going to leave it in for now.
I need to start thinking about finding some public domain music and sfx for the game.
All in all, I'm actually quite happy how this is working out. I don't know how "playable" or fun it will be, I guess we'll find that out, but I'm running out of time.
Yippee... Snowballs incoming
https://youtu.be/pXNYaS7oZrM