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Title: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: AwkwardKnightGames on February 01, 2014, 07:21:14 PM Hey Guys!
My name is Matt and I am an eighth grader that makes video games. So in the past week, I constructed the framework for a Java based game that will eventually be a story-driven game based on a Robert Frost poem. I made the mechanics to shoot and the basic collecting of orbs. (http://awkwardknight.com/screenshot1.png) (http://awkwardknight.com/screenshot2.png) Download the game here! awkwardknight.com/MilesToGo.jar (http://awkwardknight.com/MilesToGo.jar) ******There are no default items so cheats must be used to get mechanics***** 1. Press 0 to bring up the cheat menu CHEATS: key - gives you a key pistol - gives you a pistol mg - gives you a machine gun *******CONTROLS****** Movement - WASD/Arrow keys Fire - Space Any feedback is welcome! Follow us on Twitter: @awkwardknight https://twitter.com/AwkwardKnight (https://twitter.com/AwkwardKnight) Thanks in advance, Matt Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: AwkwardKnightGames on February 03, 2014, 06:05:19 PM Updates:
- I have added strafing and fixed a few sound effects. Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: framk on February 03, 2014, 09:20:57 PM Hey, man. I started programming around age 12, and I'm very impressed with what you have accomplished at such a young age. I'm curious as to whether or not this is done entirely from scratch or whether you have used an engine to build this. Believe me, I'm impressed either way; the game feels really good and technically impressive.
Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: AwkwardKnightGames on February 04, 2014, 03:57:47 AM Hey, man. I started programming around age 12, and I'm very impressed with what you have accomplished at such a young age. I'm curious as to whether or not this is done entirely from scratch or whether you have used an engine to build this. Believe me, I'm impressed either way; the game feels really good and technically impressive. This was done from scratch with Java. I have used Unity in the past, but I wanted to experience what it's like to create a game entirely from scratch. So I write all the code and make all the pixel art on my own. Thanks for the feedback! Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: Jwosty on February 05, 2014, 05:54:44 AM Awesome game! What framework did you use? LWJGL? You should try XNA / MonoGame sometime since you've used Unity and probably C#. Personally, I prefer .NET and Mono :)
Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: framk on February 05, 2014, 05:59:51 AM Awesome game! What framework did you use? LWJGL? You should try XNA / MonoGame sometime since you've used Unity and probably C#. Personally, I prefer .NET and Mono :) I took a look at his code, and it looks like it's all straight java without any external framework (This is just what I can see through the decompiler), making this all the more impressive. Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: Jwosty on February 05, 2014, 06:04:08 AM Awesome game! What framework did you use? LWJGL? You should try XNA / MonoGame sometime since you've used Unity and probably C#. Personally, I prefer .NET and Mono :) I took a look at his code, and it looks like it's all straight java without any external framework (This is just what I can see through the decompiler), making this all the more impressive. Wow, that's hardcore! :o Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: antionio on February 05, 2014, 06:53:25 AM Nice job! You did this without an external framework...? As a Java coder I'm seriously impressed.
Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: AwkwardKnightGames on February 05, 2014, 12:01:36 PM Nice job! You did this without an external framework...? As a Java coder I'm seriously impressed. Thanks! Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: AwkwardKnightGames on February 14, 2014, 09:41:10 AM If anyone has any ideas -- let me know!
Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: siplus on February 14, 2014, 01:36:18 PM Wow, I'm very impressed..
nice art, nice sounds etc. The only thing i think can be better is the movement, you should make fluent movement and not this step by step movement. Still very impressed tough :) Keep up the good work!! Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: Shadowspaz on February 16, 2014, 03:14:23 PM Wow. I'm pretty impressed, man. When I was your age, the best I made was a couple-minute-long scrolling shooter in GameMaker. The fact you made this in Java, and without any frameworks, is fantastic. Now, critiquing:
It's very much a work in progress, so there isn't much I can say, but a smoother movement speed would feel good. I kinda like the steps, though, so maybe if you could just speed it up? It does feel like he's walking, just... Slower than I'd like. The zombies were nifty, but I had them all clump up into a single entity pretty fast. What if you randomized their approach towards the player some so they stay as a crowd, more? Maybe have a randomly set value (for each one, upon creation) that determines how long they take to change direction, so when you loop around them, they'd kinda spread out before angling back towards you. All in all, very impressive. Keep it up! I'm curious to see how you integrate the poem into it. ;) Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: gamedebbro on February 20, 2014, 05:16:33 PM Wow, 4 years from now you can probably build the next Dota3. Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: AwkwardKnightGames on February 21, 2014, 05:34:06 PM Hey all,
I posted the dev blog here! (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=38970.0) Be ready for future updates! Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: AirTime on February 23, 2014, 03:36:34 PM Wow dude, this is awesome for a 14 year old. I'm impressed.
Title: Re: Miles To Go - A Java based game made by a 14 year old. Post by: esayitch on February 26, 2014, 11:17:55 AM I loved the aesthetic and the concept; like others here I think you should make the movement more fluid as opposed to the step-by-step thing you got going on now. Aside from that, did you consider making a different control scheme for directional shooting? Something like The Binding of Isaac if you wanna avoid the mouse, or like any top down shooter if you want to use a mouse. Unless that is part of the intended game mechanics, shooting in the direction you are going feels a bit slow and non-responsive.
I hate to re-state the obvious, but boy are you talented ^^. The particle effects when you destroy a wall section look and feel really nice :D Best of luck with this! |