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Student Name: Haoxian Tan Student Number: n11030461

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About Me

My Name is Eric Tan. I am currently studying IGB 220 in QUT. I chose this course because I love to play games and enjoy different types of games, which is why I became interested in Game Development. My goal is to get a high score in this unit and learn the fundamentals of game creation so that I can be a good game designer.

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Asssignment 3 Postmortem

Finally, after 4 weeks of design and testing, the full version of KnighFall has been made, and this assignment is a very detailed understanding of making a game and what kind of process a game needs to go through, from the initial group discussion of ideas to deciding on the final plan, and then using GDevelop to develop such a game, which is a very rare experience for me. As I am still studying game design, this UNIT is a great experience for me.After the demo version of the game was made, my team and I did a playtest with high hopes, although the overall game was good, there were many small problems that needed further adjustment, if we didn't do the playtest, we wouldn't find out the fundamental problem of the game. But if we want to make this game really let more people accept still need to be adjusted in later life. Thanks to all the tutors of IGB220 and my friends who helped me finish the playtest, it was a great experience, and of course this game will be the starting point of my game production, which will be improved and released in the future.

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Assignment 3 Iteration and Changes

After the play test, a series of questions are given to the play tester through a form, and then they fill out the form to find out the problems in the game and change them. For example, the big change is to modify some bugs, and the sound effects and so on are added to the game, each level has a different background music, changed the initial pick up gold sound effects, increased the sound effects when the player attacks and pick up health potion sound effects. In terms of levels, from the playtest report found that many players feel that the game's levels are not complex, so I designed the final level in addition to the need to defeat all the enemies and pick up gold, but also added pick up the key to complete the pass, and added the box hidden items this a small organ, gold enemies or keys will exist in the game map of some boxes, but will appear randomly Special items, need players to attack the box to open. These are some of the changes made after the play test.

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Assignment 3 Playtesting

Hi everyone, today I'm going to discuss the results of our playtest over the past few weeks, after two weeks of designing and tweaking the complete "KnightFall" game. Skye and I spent at least a week looking for people to help us playtest. First, we found four game enthusiasts who play games in their free time, such as the Soul-Like series, first and third-person shooters, and action-adventure games. The reason we got these people to playtest is that we designed the game to be mostly related to these types of games, so they could give us better advice and let us optimize the game. In addition to these four game enthusiasts we also invited a person who does not usually play games to help us playtest, we hope to learn from him what his first impression of playing our game, and what shortcomings need to be improved. Because of the Covid-19 reason we had to change the playtest to online, before the playtest began the five playtester only know this game is a 2D platform adventure game, in a simple understanding of the game operation, they began to playtest, in the process of their play test Skye have in the record when they play the game when the first feeling is what, to give most of the answers are the game as a whole is very good, music and sound selection and painting style is very attractive, but the drawback is the high level of repetition. After they completely playtest, we gave them a form to fill out and also talked to them individually about the highlights and drawbacks of the game, where I briefly summarize, from the four game enthusiasts we chose to learn that the biggest highlight of our game is the effect of the player swinging the knife and the sense of combat, I am very happy that they all like this, because in the initial design of the game melee system, I spent a long time to perfect this important thing, followed by another person who never played the game pointed out that the music and style of painting is very attractive to him. After this game design and playtest, I learned a lot about making games, and I am very happy to have this opportunity to finish my own small game.

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Assignment 3 Development Progress

In week 9, we needed to form a group to complete Assignment 3, and after I read the requirements of this Assignment, I immediately found my good friend Skye and we both worked together to complete this Assignment, because in Assignment 1 I made a relatively simple platform game by myself, but Skye really liked my idea. But Skye really liked my idea, so we agreed to work together on the platformer if we had the chance. Due to Covid-19, we could only communicate online and couldn't meet the right team members offline, so Skye and I formed a 2-person team for this assignment. We started to discuss and plan the pitch, one-page and MVP of the game in week 10, and here are our results.

One-page design base on my Assignment 2 one-page, Anyway The Final one-page will base one the Final Gameplay to have some change.

Here is the division of responsibilities between Skye and me

After the completion of part a, we began to use Gdevelop to develop the game, in the initial design concept, we put the optimization of the melee system in the first place, so I browsed a lot of information on the Internet after the following is the process of our final perfect melee system.

After completing the player's melee system, we designed the UI interface as well as the death interface afterwards. Of course the ultimate goal of a game to attract people is the diversity of levels, so the next goal we will put on the complexity and diversity of levels.

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Assignment 2 Final Design

One-Sheet

One-Page

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Assignment 2 Progress

In A2 my idea was to create a one-page and one-sheet for the initial 2D platform game I had created, and after a lot of browsing on the internet I briefly understood the difference between one-page and one-sheet, "One Page" means a short, effective and attractive description of the main features of the developed game One Page" means a short, effective and attractive document describing the main features of the developed game, which should contain at least the concept, product information and selling points, while one-sheet is like a poster, its content does not need to be too complicated, but only needs to attract the players, a good one-sheet only needs the game screen and a short introduction to attract people. So I will post my one-sheet and one-page in my next blog.

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After this game was made, I invited some friends as playtester to test this game, and I received some suggestions after the test. The game has a very simple interface before the start of the game to enrich the overall integrity of the game, in the game can be seen on both sides of the road trees and different color types of cars, so the game looks very complete, the game has set when the player collision to other cars will have the effect of the explosion is very real, but also set the points system, every 100 meters will count 100 points, making the game more challenging. But the shortage of points is that the game is too simple, requiring an increase in the level of difficulty, can add more obstacles, or let the player control the speed of the car, as well as the feel of the car needs to be improved, while in the player car with the destruction can be done after the destruction of the score is how much you can restart the game interface. I didn't encounter much difficulty in making this racing game compared to the previous one, because I have deeper understanding and experience in GDevelop, it becomes very easy to make a complete game, and I will improve this racing game afterwards.

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Racing Game Development

After a week of deep learning GDevelop, I managed to make my own third game, this game is a 2D infinite racing game, the game has no end, but there are other cars are obstacles for the player, the player needs to pay attention to avoid these obstacles.

Of course, I also made the main interface is relatively simple purpose is to make it easy for players to enter the game, because itself this game is based on leisure.

In the development of the game encountered more difficulties in how to make the obstacles become randomized, but the good thing is that there are previous experience in the production of the game, in the production of this racing game many difficulties are easily solved, the following are some of the development process.

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Racing Game Pitch

Game Title: FastPassion

Game Ideas:

You are very lucky to get a sports car through the lottery, you can't wait to try the car's maximum horsepower, so you drive frantically on the highway, but the speed of the car you suddenly can't control you can only avoid hitting other cars and obstacles by moving left and right.

Game Control:

This is a 2D platform racing game, the player's task is to control the car does not hit other obstacles and other cars, the player only needs to use WASD to control up, down, left and right.

Genre: 2D Platfomer Racing Game

Game Setting:

This game belongs to the casual arcade game, the game has an exclusive scoring system, specifically to record how many kilometers the player has run in a game. Because the obstacles in this game are random, the speed of the car will slowly increase with the play time, the more difficult it is to get to the back. It's perfect to challenge yourself in your leisure time and see how many kilometers you can run at the highest.

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Asterolds Postmortem

Hello everyone, today I'm here to update the play test and postmortem about the second game I made. The second game I made is an 8 bit space flight shooter, and after playing the game to five of my friends, they pointed out the pros and cons of the game to me. The game received some good comments after the play test as follows. 1. cool sound effects when the player controls the ship to fire bullets 2. Compared to the previous platformer this game has a background music, and it also fits the game style. 3. the control of the ship has a dual form when picking up the playshield shield to increase the amount of blood and blood pills to replenish blood, this design is praiseworthy. 4. The game's levels are a big improvement over the previous game, which has three different levels for us to experience, and also has a certain degree of difficulty. 5. This game also has a preliminary main interface and level selection system, after passing the level can also be repeatedly played so as to break the previous game record. 6. The design of enemies and asteroids is very new, and the background is also the universe. Of course, there are also stuffs that need to be improved. 1. player's health bar if you can use the animation instead of text will be better. 2. can design a play after the end of each tour to retain the current tour points and wait for the next player to break the record. 3. can be designed to enhance the number of bullets pills and some trap pills such as in a few seconds can not shoot. 4. The game play is too single and easy to feel bored.

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Asteroids Development Post

SpaceLine is an 8 bit space shooter game that relies on the up, down, left and right keys to move and the space bar to fire bullets. The ultimate goal of the game is to dodge enemy attacks and avoid asteroid collisions. Next, I will talk about the development process.

At the beginning I thought it would be a relatively difficult thing to achieve the player to fire bullets, but in fact, after learning a lot of video game production using GDevelop, I found that adding bullets to the player only requires adding a Fire behavior to the ship, the following is the process of developing my player ship.

Next I will talk about the part of the game that I had more difficulties in developing, the level, the enemy, the asteroid design part, learning some suggestions from the last game in this game I added a lot of actions to the enemy instead of just letting the player attack alone, there are four enemy ships in this game, one of them is going to attack the player to cause damage to the player. When the player is attacked by the enemy will deduct health bar, in addition to the attack of the ship, I also designed the collision damage of asteroids, when the player collides with asteroids will also deduct health bar.

In addition to the mechanism of deducting health bar, of course, there will be some bonus mechanism, in the game I made two kinds of pills one is to increase the amount of blood and one is to add shields, will randomly appear in the game.

Because I received a lot of comments about the last game too few levels, in this game I designed a total of three different levels, the difficulty is also different, level switching is also used when the player encounters an invisible finish line will switch to a menu free to switch levels can try to break their own records.

Summarized the development process is generally successful, although encountered a lot of problems but by watching different instructional videos and hands-on production, the next Blog will release my Asteroid Game play test and post-mortem.

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Asterold Elevator Pitch

Game Name: Spaceline In 2077 you as a member of Spaceline are ordered to fight in the universe, you need to pilot a spaceship to fight in space, you will encounter many different asteroids, you need to use your spaceship to destroy them or these asteroids will destroy the Earth all you need to do is to eliminate these asteroids, but also encounter other planets fleet they are enemies with the Earth encounter you will attack you, so you need to protect yourself and complete this flight mission, are you ready? This game is suitable for 6+, this is a casual adventure theme game, but also will have a scoring system, you can always open the game to challenge yourself or friends to create the record. Spacecraft theme is very new, take you to enjoy a variety of different asteroids in space, and feel the excitement of spacecraft shooting.

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Here is the playtest of my 2D platfomer game.

The following is a combination of advice I received from some of my friends on this game

Positive thing:

1.The player's jumping and moving movements are smooth

2.Melee attack system is very smooth

3.This game has a scoring system

4.The design of the scenes and levels is interesting, and the enemies also have health bars to show.

Things need to be work on in the future:

1.The overall difficulty of the game is quite easy.

2.Enemies cannot attack the player。

3.The player's sword swinging action needs to be improved.

4.The game does not have a start and end screen.

After this playtest, I know it's not easy to make a good game, and I'm grateful to everyone for their comments on my game. Through the development of such a platfomer game let me learn a lot of knowledge needed to make the game, when I thought the difficulty of making the game is to design the level, in fact, in the production of this game put me to the difficult is the character melee system, and the production of enemy health bar. Although I haven't made a full version of the game yet, I believe I can improve the game in the following study time, such as improving the game's UI interface and making more levels.

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Platformer Development post

After learning some basic GDevelop knowledge I started to make a 2D platfomer game of my own. The name of the game is Knight: rebirth, and the gameplay is very simple, moving back and forth, jumping and attacking. Here is the general scene of the game. The game is played by collecting all the gold coins in the scene and defeating all the small dinosaurs to pass the game.

The difficulty in the process of making this game is in setting up the player's melee attack system, and I watched many tutorials online before I finished the rough combat system. Add a health bar to the enemy, so that the enemy can move, as well as the player swinging the sword effect is to spend a lot of time to study.

You can see the reason why the player can attack the enemy to make the enemy's health bar become 0, is by adding the hitbox to achieve the melee system.

The following is my production process.

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Platfomer Game Pitch

Welcome to my Blog, where I will share my Game pitch, after three weeks of learning the basics of game making, I have come up with a very good game idea. Name: “ Knight: Rebirth”

The game is called "Knight: Rebirth" and is set in the Middle Ages, the main character is a knight, one day he finds his companions all turned into "black knights" by "black devil", the world becomes very dark, the player fights alone to defeat the "black devil" by his own power.

Genre: Action/Adventure

First of all, this game is a 2D Platfomer game, the goal of the game is to control the protagonist all the way to explore the equipment to make themselves strong so as to save the world. In the process of exploring the protagonist will encounter many different monsters, the protagonist needs to break through the way to get better equipment to make themselves strong so as to defeat the black Devil.

Over the next few weeks I will be using GDevelop to present a demo version of this game , hoping to improve my game making skills and learn from the mistakes.