Ripples, The New Year Update
At the end of last year we doubled our team size, and slowed down production on the game so everyone could enjoy their winter break. That’s not to say that nothing got done. Quite the contrary. One of our new … Continued
First Semester Postmortem
This semester started with me working on the sumo puzzle game. That was quickly scrapped in favor of our ripple game that Willie was initially working on. The first prototype of ripples began with two players controlling their jumps to … Continued
A Change in Perspective
Of the biggest complaints that we got from our QA feedback was that it was hard to tell when you were jumping in the game. One of our first attempts to address this was having the background change to indicate … Continued
Vector Grid and Optimization
With the gameplay solidified, we wanted to add more to the environment of our game. Since the concept of the game revolves around entity’s jumping on the surface of the water, we wanted to project that to the player. One … Continued
Ripple Character Collision – Part 2: Circle-Line Collision
Greetings! On the previous post, I talk about the various stages of collision detection we went through to get to a version that will work well for our game. For this post, I will talk about the Circle-Line Collision that … Continued
Ripple Character Collision – Part I
The Character-Ripple interaction is an integral part of the core gameplay. It is the driving force with how the characters interact with each other in the game. Strategically moving to the right position to set up an attack while dodging … Continued
The Importance of Standards
As we continue forward with our project of Ripples it became apparent that we all needed to sit down and come up with a set of Coding Standards and Practices that we could reference if needed. Right now, we have … Continued
Maintenance
We are moving forward with the Ripple Game. But before we did, we needed to do a little maintenance on our code base. Since we were each working on three separate directions for the game, we separated our work flow … Continued
Onto the Ripples
Last week we challenged with our three game ideas: The Augmented Reality, Sumo Puzzle game, and our Ripple game. Based on the feedback we got during our testing we decided to go forth with the Ripple game. To recap, Ripples … Continued
The Art of Sumo – Part II
This week involved finishing off the prototype for our three games and getting feedback from testers. For our puzzle game, I was able to finish of the hammer movement as well as add in some block pushing and matching elements … Continued