{"author_name":"hexagore","cat":"LD #32","comments":[],"epoch":1428144780,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"21311","p_author":"hexagore","p_authorkey":"34027","p_urlkey":"56659","p_title":"I am in OR SO HELP ME","p_cat":"LD #32","p_event":"LD32","p_time":"1428144780","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"34027","us_name":"hexagore","us_username":"hexagore","event_start":"1429228800","event_key":"27","event_name":"LD32"},"text":"

I feel like I’ve been “in” Ludum Dare 32 since the last Ludum Dare finished. Last time I made the largely reviled platforming nightmare Screened<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This time I want to make a proper platform game. One with 2d pixel art. I want to do a\u00a0proper<\/em> Ludum Dare game.<\/p>\n

The problem is that all the stuff I’ve done for the last year has been for Three.JS, which isn’t a Game Engine (it’s just an abstraction layer and a scene graph for WebGL).\u00a0So to make a 2d pixel art platform game I could:<\/p>\n

– switch to Unity (although I hate the web plugin for that)
\n – switch to Gamemaker Pro (tempting, but don’t want to make my game Windows download only)
\n – switch to Phaser.JS which is a WebGL game library…..
\n – …or write some sort of game engine\u00a0and editing tools for Three.JS.<\/p>\n

I made the editor. Whoops. It’s taken me three months and it’s full of bugs… but I can manage tilesets and sprites and draw multi-layer maps. I can draw boxes, points and sprites into object layers, just about, and it all exports a single .json file with all the textures embedded.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Unfortunately this leaves me this weekend and next weekend to work on the missing game engine part of the game engine. Most of it’s there – I can render parallax tile maps, draw sprites into boxes and stuff. I can control the tint of the layers and do various blending tricks\u00a0to create moody atmospheric stuff like this…<\/p>\n

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…and this…<\/p>\n

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.. all from the same level data.<\/p>\n

This weekend I need<\/em><\/strong> to get animated sprites working in the engine or this last few months have been for\u00a0nothing<\/strong>. I’ve already made one rubbish game to get sprite\/sprite and sprite\/tilemap collision detection stuff working, but I need to make sure I can use all that with the data generated by this new editor. Agh. I should probably stop procrastinating and finish this post and get back to it, shouldn’t I?<\/p>\n

So… I’m in<\/strong>\u00a0for the fourth time (I’ve been doing game development and 3d graphics programming for a year now) and and I’ll be using:<\/p>\n

– Javascript & Three.JS<\/a> targeting WebGL, coded in Sublime Text 3<\/a><\/p>\n

– “Hexr” Game “Engine” and Editor For Three.JS (I’ll post the links and stuff when they’re up and ready)<\/p>\n

– Swanky Paint<\/a> for Art (an awesome Deluxe Paint style pixel art thing, it’s awesome)<\/p>\n

– Propellerhead Reason<\/a>\u00a0– Magical Swedish music application.<\/p>\n

– POSSIBLY Blender<\/a>, if the theme\/game calls for some actual 3d geometry\u00a0although I kinda doubt it tbh.<\/p>\n

– POSSIBLY Box2D<\/a>\u00a0(the Emscripten version) again if the theme or game makes it worth ditching the arcade “physics” I currently have.<\/p>\n

That’s it!<\/p>\n

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Tags: im in<\/a>, reason<\/a>, swanky paint<\/a>, three.js<\/a>, webgl<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 4th, 2015 5:53 am","title":"I am in OR SO HELP ME"}