At first, I made a to-do list for graphics:<\/p>\n
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- Color scheme. I thought about making gray platforms, black void as walls, and gray fog for undiscovered territories. Quiet moody.<\/li>\n
- Make player. You see it at 45 degrees, it can rotate in 4 directions.<\/li>\n
- If possible, make walking anomation for player.<\/li>\n
- Switches. It shouldn’t be difficult.<\/li>\n
- Orbs (aka exits). Little black balls with smaller white balls orbiting them.<\/li>\n
- Fog. Grey tiles which fade away as you discover them.<\/li>\n
- Make some kind of tutorial. Text messages that will appear as you play.<\/li>\n
- Main menu and stuff.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
(Hey, where did the spelling check button go?)<\/p>\n
The color scheme looked nice, but the fog was kinda bad, so I started from the fog. I decided to make the fog like that: initially, all undiscovered tiles are gray. But when I discover them, as I can’t just interpolate then to whatever I want, I switch them instatly and at the same time add a new fog tile, which will fade away with time.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Here comes the fog!<\/p><\/div>\n
Wow, it looks cool. Well, let’s go on.<\/p>\n
Next things I made were switches and orbs. I made both of them animated, and it was very interesting to do.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>I like those animations)<\/p><\/div>\n
Let’s make a player then! I imagine him knida squared (cubed?). After several minutes I managed to finish him. (Finish him!).<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The player<\/p><\/div>\n
Why does he look like that? Idk, I just wanted so.<\/p>\n
I didn’t animate him. Because my code is like cuonmoppltiicmaitzeedd. So, I finished graphics. Yay! Have a screenshot:<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Done!<\/p><\/div>\n
I decided to leave music for now and make some menus. And come up with a name of the game! So, here is an another to-do list I made:<\/p>\n
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- Make a tutorial.<\/li>\n
- Come up with a name.<\/li>\n
- Make a menu.<\/li>\n
- Make an “you win” screen.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
Eventually, I didn’t make an “you win” screen. But I made some cool effects, and discovered some in the program I use. Nice!<\/p>\n
By the way, the name I chose is “By the Void”.<\/p>\n
Now the game is pretty much complete. Except it’s missing some atmospheric music.<\/p>\n
————— Relearning composing —————<\/p>\n
Abundant Music still doesn’t have any export excepting to midi. Sad…<\/p>\n
*Lookes (Listens?) through previously generated music* Bad luck… Nothing suitable…<\/p>\n
Well, actually, there is some a bit suitable music, but generating is too easy! And I’m here to warm up my skills! So, let’s compose some music ourselves!<\/p>\n
It didn’t took me long, but hey, I just made a 16-second loop!<\/p>\n
And then, an usual problem: converting WAV to MP3. I use Audacity, and when it converts, it leave a little pause at the begining. Eek! It ruines the rhythm when looped! Well, the solution I know is to chop off the end of the track, so the length remains the same. But you can still feel the bump. If anyone knows a solution, please tell me.<\/p>\n
————— Results —————<\/p>\n
What went good:<\/em><\/p>\n
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- I finished it in time!<\/li>\n
- I made some good graphics!<\/li>\n
- I made (I think) the game moody.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
What went wrong:<\/em><\/p>\n
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- Code. I even had some problems with it’s entanglement.<\/li>\n
- I spent 48 hours, but made only one level. Well, I wasn’t really trying, but I need some serious warm-up to make it in time in December!<\/li>\n
- The game isn’t very challenging. Well, the idea is years old.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
Go play it!<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 1st, 2013 9:53 am","title":"Recovering, Day 2"}