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Community / DevLogs / Re: OBEY
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on: August 12, 2014, 03:54:20 AM
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Interesting concept! Totally a game Id love to try out, cant wait to see more!
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Community / DevLogs / Re: Under Lock and Key - My First Game
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on: August 11, 2014, 06:11:07 PM
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UpDate Alright guys this is probably going to be the last update before its complete! Just finished weapons and stat handling today, and all is working well. I think i got most of the bugs out of the rooms as well. The only things left to do are the final boss fight, code the sound, and add a few small odds and ends here and there. After that its just play testing and balancing before release!
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Community / DevLogs / Re: Under Lock and Key - My First Game
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on: August 11, 2014, 01:50:33 AM
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UPDATE:Okay so A lot of work has been done in the past 24 hours! All the rooms have now been designed and coded. The only things left to do is make the weapons obtainable and and have player stats change when they are picked up and used. I think with a few more hours of hard work it will be done except for music and sound effects! Hopefully the whole thing will be done either late tonight or tomorrow! On a different note here's a pic of a level being assembled. basically rooms are selected from a pool a launched sideways or vertically at each other untill there is a collision. if the rooms miss, the room that was launched simply goes back into the pool and a new room is selected at random. I know its not the most efficient way to do it but it takes no more than 15 seconds to generate a level and i though more complex methods of level generation would be overkill for such a small project. 
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Community / DevLogs / Re: Under Lock and Key - my one week project
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on: August 08, 2014, 11:16:11 PM
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UPDATE: okay so im working on the combat system still but i needed a way of showing stats to the player so heres what i came up with. There are only 4 basic stats, health(which really isnt a stat), defense(basically just resilience), strength, and swing range. Each red line will grow according to how buffed each stat is. As for the player portrait if i have the time ill update her picture with howmuch damage she has taken, kinda like doom. Also were are two more weapons and enemies. One is a tier 4 maul and the other is a mystery. As for the enemies the one on the left is more so of a trap and fires arrows on an interval, he also cant be destroyed but will continue to fire arrows even after the room is cleared. The one on the right is named Billy who has already been redesigned but the over all look is similar. Billy is slow and stupid and gets bored of chasing you if your to far away but when he does chase you watch out, he deals ass loads of damage and has extremely high health. Billys usually travel in pair and attempt to corner you if the can manage enough brain power to work together. 
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Community / DevLogs / Re: Under Lock and Key - my one week project
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on: August 08, 2014, 10:32:36 AM
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UPDATE: Last night i was able to program most of the enemy ai. Working on combat now and later tonight. unfortunately my one week project may take an extra few days especially since i wont be able to work on it Saturday or Sunday. I think ill be updating the page too later tonight.
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Community / DevLogs / Re: Under Lock and Key - my one week project
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on: August 07, 2014, 03:17:03 AM
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Update: So my goal for last night was to get a decent amount of the combat system done but due to a limitation in the code, programming enemies would be long, tedious and inefficient. I fixed this issue by recoding the random level generation and thus had to reprogram doors and even screw around with player movement a bit(thats what i get for trying to do world generation in a night) but all is well now and the game runs much better this way anyway so no complaints. I was able to do some enemy ai but its not as polished as id like it to be so that will probably be my next post later tonight/ early tomorrow morning. While restructuring I also decided water would look better than pits so changed that as well. hopefully ill get a gif up soon but heres a pic for now.
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Community / DevLogs / Under Lock and Key - My First Game
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on: August 05, 2014, 12:16:38 PM
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Under Lock and Key Hello There! My names Ryan Throw and im pretty new to the indie scene. This is my first game that im actually intending to release to the public, through what means i dont know but im assuming ill probably just throw it up either on Newgrounds or something. Why Im Making It The goal of the game for me is to learn as much as possible through the act of actually making a game. For this game im doing everything, art, animation, design, and programming, the only thing I dont plan on doing myself is sound and music. While doing almost every aspect of the game is difficult in some ways its also been extremely informative so far and through this project I think Ive managed to refine my programming skills and learned how to do animation, so in a way the game has already been a success for me because Ive already accomplished what I intended to when starting it. What The Game Is Because this game is just a project intended to teach me new aspects of making games I decided to take a game that already exists and rework it into a game thats similar on the surface but maybe has changed somewhat drastically in the game play aspect. This allows me to save my own game ideas for more serious projects. So after some thought I decided making a game similar to The Binding Of Isaac might be fun. So the game im making is a topdown rogue like with procedurally generated levels much like Isaac. How it differs is with the elimination of ranged weapons for melee weapons. By just changing this aspect of the game it's more of an avoidance, hit and run sort of game, than spray and pray, bullet hell. There are other changes as well but that seems to be the main change that really has changed the games overall feel. As for a story I dont really know if there is one, If people like the game I think I might continue to add to it and with the addition of content a story will come. Basically right now the premise is that your stuck in a dungeon and you need to get out and everything's kinda freaky. Rooms So right now im only working on one floor of the dungeon, if People like the game Ill add more. Each floor will be composed of a random selection of 50 or so different rooms. Heres an example of what one of the rooms looks like. Enemies Each floor will also contain a set of enemies that differs from floor to floor. Im playing around with how big each set is but right now im leaning towards 4 enemies and 2 traps a set. Enemies obviously can be killed but traps cant. The way ive designed it, the enemies and traps work together nicely and kill you in a timely manner. Heres two enemies and 1 trap from the first zone. Weapons The game is composed of 20 different weapons which will be rewarded to you either after boss fight or in sacrifice rooms. Regardless nothing is just given to you in the game, you either need to win it from fights or sacrifice some of your blood to get upgrades. Along with Weapons are gems that will buff your stats, these are rewarded randomly after clearing a room or in sacrifice rooms, some gems however will only work for axes while some will only work for maces etc. Heres a few of the weapons done so far, I havent gotten around to gems yet. My Dead Line I said this would be a week long project, unfortunately it is running long. again. I think in the next day or so ill have the combat system all worked out and then its just a matter of stat handling and adding rooms. I think in the next five days or so ill have a completed build of the first floor. Like I said before, if people like it ill do more, or if people have constructive criticism Ill definitely go back and fix the issues, and then if people like it ill go and do more. Welp that's it for me, thanks for reading! ITS DONE! PLAY IT HERE AT NEWGROUNDS: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/645875 |
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Community / DevLogs / Re: RosenBridge!
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on: July 31, 2014, 08:00:10 PM
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Well we finally updated the page after another month of development. Updates include coins, lever parts, menu system, revamped darkworld(screenshot coming soon), player animation, complete world restructure, and much much more. Hopefully by next week well have a rough combat system to show off!
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Community / DevLogs / RosenBridge!
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on: July 07, 2014, 10:31:28 PM
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RosenBridge Hello! Well after two and a half months or so of development we think its time to show off our first project RosenBridge! The Idea RosenBridge is a adventure style platformer where you play as Gus, A boy too smart and anxious for his own good. Once upon a time Gus meets the girl of his dreams, Lola, and feels he must impress her with the greatest gift he can comprehend, the night sky. So Gus does the only thing any rational person would do, he builds a star of course! And launches it to the heavens so that it shines down upon Lola from dusk till dawn, that is until it flickers out moments after situating its self in its new home in the sky. Persistent as Gus is, he rushes off into the wilderness where his journey will have him climb higher and higher up into the peaceful skies of the strange world from whence he came...  ...Unfortunately nobody informed Gus that the methods needed to traverse these skies are anything but peaceful. You see, Gus, like all citizens of his world are blessed with the gift of teleportation. But one does not simply pop in and out of existence in a different place, that would be ludicrous! No, to teleport one must first venture through the dark world, full of monsters, some weak, some only spoken of in legends. And this is where Gus' adventure gets interesting. The Team Our team consists of only four members,
Ryan Throw, Programming, Level Design
TJ Acre, Art and Animation
Justin Rock, Concept Art, Level Design
Jordan Reiners, Music and Sound |
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