Color Kids Games

Indie game studio working on "Otter Town", a 8-bits plateformer game with monkeys and otters (french guy, sorry for the bad english)

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#25 DEVLOG (Otter Town)

Hi girls and boys :)

Today, I worked on water physics and characters size. Here’s a little bug I had working on animation (which depends on character size)

From now, characters can have modifiable size, here’s an exemple with a tiny ape :D

Next week, I’d like to end last physics bugs et perhaps begin particles handling :D

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#24 DEVLOG (Otter Town)

Hi girls and boys :D

Yesterday, I worked on water physics (and I discovered a little gravity bug that I fixed haha). The hard part was to make the player float on the water with waves.

Here’s what I got :)

As you can see, the player goes up and down with waves :)

There are some bugs to fix, but the main part should be done :D

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#23 DEVLOG (Otter Town)

Hi girls and boys :D

Today, I ended the physics/gravity part of the game (except water part). Here’s a little bug I had working on wall jumps: SPIDER MONKEY !

Here’s the final result :)

Wall jump and air coef does work (air coef -> the player acceleration is lower in the air)

And I also worked on the camera ! I found a great algorithm which allows me to get smooth camera movements and to be sure that the player will be followed by the camera. I’m really happy of that :D

So the player can now move the camera too.

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#22 DEVLOG (Otter Town)

Hi girls and boys !

Today, I worked on gravity, it’s not finished but we already got something nice :D

Next week, I’ll try to handle wall jumps and to avoid bunny jumps. If ever I have some time after this, I’ll start water gravity :)

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#21 DEVLOG (Otter Town)

Hi girls and boys !

Today, I tried to fix last collision bugs, this was harder that what I thought cause of the tiled map. But I think it’s done :D

Once again, it was not always super evident and I had to recode it a lot of time, but I think it’s bulletproof now, and that’s great, I’ll be able to work on gravity next days :D (and after this, water gravity !!)

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#20 DEVLOG (Otter Town)

Hi girls and boys !

This week, I worked on map collision, to do so, I did not started with gravity, so I made a flying movement for debugging. I did some debugging display:

Here’s a nice bug I had :)

I still have some bugs, So I’ll have to work on it next week too, but I hope this will be fast :)

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#19 DEVLOG (Otter Town)

Hi guys/girls ! (sorry for my english)

I recently decided to come back on Super Fire Monkey :) I had to stop it cause of the lag of shaders (details: CPU shaders is not a good idea...) but for Hunting Lights, I discovered love2d, a framework that allows me to code a game in lua (a programming language) and it’s really fast actually :D

So I still code everything in the game (like EVERYTHING), but the graphic part (like display a sprite on the screen) is simpler and shaders can be easily added to the game. I really like SFM world, that’s why I came back on it. I have to recode the entire game (for the 2nd time), but lua is faster to code so that’s okay :)

Here’s what I have actually:

Foreground, middleground, background (2 levels), water (shaders + waves), 8-bit shader and shadow on fore and middlegrounds

The monkey is not really on the floor, I just displayed it at this place haha, so I have to recode the gravity/collision part (that’s my next goal)

Good news: in this new version of the game, every tile is animable (animatable ? animamamable ? French sucks yeah) so I will animate it to show the wind on the grass, I hope this will be great :)

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#4 DEVLOG (hunting lights)

Hi !

Not a lot to show today, I’m working on map collision and I always have some bugs. But here’s a little gif to explain :)

Next time, I’ll try to fix bugs and perhaps try to begin NPC’s

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(I finally found how to make better gifs for tumblr haha)

So here’s an example of how forests shadow can be (without animation, I didn’t do it yet)

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#3 DEVLOG (hunting lights)

Hello :)

Today, I worked on collisions, object collisions. I do not handle collisions like in the previous game where tiles were obstacles. Here, tiles can be obstacles (when the aim tile is to high for the player) but they are not the main obstacles. Objects are made of boxes, a bunch of boxes that I call shape (depending on the object animation) and if a shape collides an other shape, I can easily know that and even move the first one to avoid collision. (Really really sorry for my english...).

Here, you can see that the player cannot (anymore) walk through trees. To be able to modify boxes (player’s boxes, tree’s boxes etc), I decided to display the player main box (it easier to work with images than with numbers).

This is an important part for the gameplay, so I’m happy of that, next days, I’ll try to work on map collision (when tiles are to high for the player) and next, I think I will be able to work on NPCs :D

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#2 DEVLOG (hunting lights)

Hi everybody

Here’s the trees’ shadows :)

As you can see in this bug, the shadow is drawn on objects depending on objects’ height. It’s not simply drawn on the screen, it is modified by the volume of the map (really hard to explain in english haha sorry)

I resized the character (30x15) and tiles (13x13) to get a nearer camera.

With the shadow system, objects can have a real volume (even if the game is full 2D). Here’s an example of the shadow on the character.

The shadow is not already animated but the code for it is done, so it is animatable (is this a real word ?)

Thank you and sorry for my english :) Next days, I’m gonna work on collisions to get a more realistic movement and to interact with futur npcs :D

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STUDIO POTAGER -> COLOR KIDS GAMES

Hi everybody, as I said in the last devlog, the studio has changed its name :)

We are new Color Kids Games

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#1 DEVLOG (hunting lights)

Hello everybody !

For some technical reasons, I had to stop my last game project. But I didn’t stop gamedev ;)

First of all, I change the studio name, it won’t be Studio Potager anymore (too frenchy haha) it will be Color Kids Games

Here’s my new project:

Hunting Lights:

It’s a 2D (of course) topdown game. It takes place in a sweden like forest and you play a ranger.

It aims to be a poetic but violent game, inspiration:

Hotline miami

Miyazaki

Titan souls

So, I worked a lot on shaders cause I wanted a forest with lot of light effects. Character movements are not done, its just a way to see how it would work.

Next saturday, I’ll show how the trees’ shadows does work with shaders (it’s pretty cool haha)

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#18 DEVLOG

Hello !

Today, I did some memory leaks hunting and worked on the particles :D

I can’t show you a lot of stuff about memory leaks haha but this is really important for the game. I also recoded the particles on the game, there are still some bugs, but the major part does work ;)

Next time, I’ll try to end the particles :)

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#17 DEVLOG

Hello !

Today, I cleaned up the fisheye effect and recoded the transition between rooms, it’s better than the older version and cleaner ;)

Here’s a little bug I had when I was working on the fisheye effect :)

And here’s the transition animation between rooms :D

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#16 DEVLOG

Hi !

I recoded an important part of the game, the physics and the graphic part ! I also added some new things for the graphic part, a fisheye effect / Barel distortion ;)

I wanted to show you some of the bugs i got working on the fisheye effect ;)

Here’s the fisheye effect with a high coefficient :)

And here’s the effect in the game, softer, cause I don’t want the players to throw up on the game haha

From now, I’ll try to work seriously on the game on weekends and to show you the progress :D

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Promiss I'm not dead

I'm sorry, but I'm not often here cause I'm actually recoding the entire game (with my school on the other side) ! Why ? Cause I have to clean the code (13000 lines of code), this will be easier later to code with a clean code and to be able to send the game on every plateform, mac, win, linux and perhaps more :) So, nop, me and my monkeys are not dead, we're working hard :D