MrFlibble78's Games Development Blog

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No Ludum Dare for me

Again Ludum Dare has been and gone and once again I hated the theme.  I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm just not really a theme person.  And that I should stick to trying to make more games, rather than not making games for game jams.

I know that game jams seem bring out the best out some of people.  Either because they like working to a theme/restriction or the restricted time scale, but alas they just aren't for me.

Anyway I have a small game in mind that hopefully will be fun when I get round to prototyping it.  I have spent a little bit working on the graphics for some of the in game cards.

For a non-artist I don't think they look too bad and think they are fairly readable.

There's a few ways I think the gameplay could go.  It's either going to be too simple (but that could translate as casual), no fun or somewhat enjoyable.  I'm hoping for the last.

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Ever have one of those days where something just clicks?

When working on my #Lowrez jam game I had planned to have an item that when used displayed footsteps to the maze exit for a certain length of time.  The player could then follow these footsteps for as long as they lasted to get closer to the exit.

Unfortunately I'm a Math and real programming language numpty and however I tried to implement a maze solving algorithm I couldn't get anything to work or work as planned.  Some would half solve the maze then brain fart and just go through walls.

Well today for some unknown reason I went back to it and low and behold got an algorithm working.  Go me.  I also managed to solve it using one of my favourite things ever.  Cellular Automata.

So to celebrate here is a gif of the algorithm in action.

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Just A Small Exercise

Made this as a small exercise to see if I could reproduce the gameplay of 8-Bit Night by RetroSouls.  I think I got the gameplay almost bang on but it's obviously lacking any graphical polish, effects or an end to the level.

Even though it was an experiment I also created a basic level editor that automatically produced the "mirrored" version of the level and let you switch between them.

It also kept me sort of productive, motivated and in the mood to make a new game of my own.  I re-downloaded Construct Classic recently so I could go through all my old prototypes and unfinished games.  Maybe I can resurrect one and turn it into a fully finished game.

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Been working on a first draft of top down procedurally generated destructible terrain. Seems to be working well for a first go. Badly pixelled 8x8 tiles are inspired by a tileset from "Nuclear Throne".

You can give it a whirl HERE

Controls are:

Press "R" to generate a new level

Hold "Z" to zoom

Arrow Keys scroll level while zoomed

Right Click to place an explosion and blow stuff up

No idea what to do with it yet but it was fun to create, which I suppose is the main thing.

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Long time no speak

Oh dear been a long time since I posted here.  Seems like I've fallen into my old habits.

Was hoping to enter my first Ludum Dare but once again the theme & thinking of an idea to fit the theme was my downfall.  I think next time I'll register for the site and watch the voting to try and build some ideas for each theme before the winner is announced, that way hopefully the brain-storming is out of the way and I can concentrate on the game.

Been lazy in general gamedev but have created the first draft of a new dungeon generator, hopefully for a nice roguelike.

Needs some tweaks, like maybe getting rid of overlapping rooms but the general idea and base seem to be working fine.

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Short on time

Time has been a bit hard to come by recently to get any serious game dev done.  Hopefully that will change soon and I can finish my lowrezjam roguelike completely (16 days is only slightly late) and move onto another project.

The time I have had I've spent working on small examples for my new Construct 2 Tutorials Blog, which will hopefully help out some new Construct users on the way to making games.

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Oh well that's cool, I remember you taught me some really basic animation when I was 14'ish (4 years ago)

I thought I knew the name :) Good to know that you are still making games and that maybe I helped you along :) in some small way.

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Wait you're from the scirra construct forums huh!!

Yes that's me :) although I'm Minor on there and MrFlibble on here, Twitter & Youtube.

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#Lowrezjam Progress 6 & game update

I've updated my #lowrezjam roguelike on GameJolt.

Some of the stuff I've added

Enemies now have a chance drop items when killed.  Damn eyeball dropped squat!

The teleport item has been added.

Here is the full changelog.

Added a generating % to the generation screen.

Sped up map & inventory sliding onto the screen.

Fixed a problem with the inventory.

You now click the inventory bag to close it.

Improved the inventory Left & Right buttons.

You can now click 2 squares from player he will still only move 1 square.

Updated some keyboard controls - Better to use the mouse at this point.

Broke the inventory again & fixed it again - I think??!!

Added potion usage. Using a potion will restore half of your lost health.

Fixed the @ sign in the map not conforming to jam rules. Thanks 8bit-ninja.

Fixed the health bar not conforming to jam rules.

Added item drops when killing an enemy.

Added Teleport item usage (purple burst). Will randomly teleport player to exit, moneybag, chest or random position. May also randomly fail to teleport too.

Added GameJolt highscores for money on death.

You can try it out at GameJolt.

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#Lowrezjam Progress 5 & Demo

Got my #lowrezjam roguelike up to a stage where it is fully playable.  It's still lacking a few features I plan on adding before the end of the jam.

Got chests and items working nicely.

Got some standard roguelike combat added too.  Here I take on a badly pixelled skeleton & a snake.  I think I need to change the health bar as it seems overly large and in the way.  I thought I got it working correctly but it breaks the jam rules too.

If you'd like to give the game a try you can play it - HERE.  I also need a name so if you have any ideas that would be great.

Next is some sort of level indicator, shop/reward system for exiting a level, stronger enemies the deeper the level and get all the items working as they should.

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#Lowrezjam Progress 4

My focus has remained....Well focused and I've been working hard on my little 32x32 roguelike for #lowrezjam.

Touch/mouse controls have been implemented.  And I've added an always on-screen menu so now the map & inventory are only a click away.

I'm quite pleased with the inventory system I've got going, especially as it's the first I've ever created, even if it is only for a small number of items.

I've also added "chests" & "money bags" to the level generation code.  I've also added the ability to pick up money bags.  Chests & money bags will also show up on the map too.

Next on the list is chest functionality, inventory items actually working and the most important aspect.  Combat.

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#Lowrezjam Progress 3

OK like I said in the last post my mind wonders.  And it's wondered again.  I'm now creating a 32x32 roguelike for #lowrezjam.

I couldn't help it.  I was trying to improve an old maze generator for a friend, I got it working 10x faster and with much nicer results, and couldn't resist using it myself.

Using Prims algorithm to generate mazes.

Once generated the game will automatically tile the level using "bitwise" numbers.  There's a great tutorial - HERE.

I've got player, exit and monster placement working nicely.  I've also added mapping to the game so you can see areas you've visited on the map.

Gameplay gif showing basic movement & mapping.

Next up is item placement, enemy movement & combat.  There's 19 days left of the #lowrezjam at the time of posting.  Lets see if I can stay focused and on track making a roguelike.

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#Lowrezjam Progress 2

Not really much progress since last time.  My mind keeps wondering thinking of what other stuff would be awesome at 32x32 pixels.

OK a couple of .gifs of our blobby pal.  The first is he can now pick up crates and drop them again.

He can also hitch a ride to get across a dangerous looking pit of purple gooey stuff.

As I said my mind has been wandering and I created a 32x32 version of one of my favourtite things ever Conway's "Game Of Life" - HERE.  If you are a Construct 2 user you can download the source CAPX from the game page too.

And also a 32x32 "Artillery" game which has random and destructible terrain.  I know the gif isn't within the rules on #lowrezjam as it zooms out but it's just for testing purposes.

I don't think I'm going to complete a game for #lowrezjam but I'm still enjoying playing around with different ideas.

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#Lowrezjam Progress 1

Been playing around in Construct2 making something, I have no idea what, for @deviever's #lowrezjam.

The idea to make a game with a resolution of just 32x32 pixels.

Here are a few GIFS of the thing I'm making.

Blobby little platform guy.

He now drips through the ceiling

Fall to far and he splats!

I have no idea if this will become anything but it's fun to play around with the restrictions of the #lowrezjam and in Construct2.

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Super Zombie Combo Jump Turbo V1.2.0

I've uploaded the latest version of SZCJT to GameJolt.

Fixes For this version:

Added in game music created by my good friend Bibiki :)

Added the GameJolt acheivements in game

Added Press "2" on titlescreen to clear your in-game medal data.  Your GameJolt achievements shouldn't be affected.

Added tried to improve the games basic graphics

Added in-game medal notifications.

There might be more but I've forgotten them :)

You can play it on GameJolt

There is also an updated gameplay video on YouTube

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Super Zombie Combo Jump Turbo V1.1.0

I've released a feature complete version of SZCJT on GameJolt.

The game makes use of the GameJolt Achievements API, so it's best played if you have a GameJolt account.  There are a total of 11 achievements, 10 are in game achievements and the 11th is the platinum for getting the other 10.

Here is one of the achievement badges, can you guess the movie reference?

I've also made use of GameJolt's high score table.  Lets see if you can beat the current best score of 433300 by Xaychru.

Play Super Zombie Combo Jump Turbo

Next to clean up the code and create the Android export version.

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Super Zombie Combo Jump Turbo - YouTube

SJCJT is almost complete I just need to add the medals to the game.

The medals are really for the Android export that I'll be working on in the next few days, but I'll update the HTML5 version & the desktop versions that I'll be uploading soon.

The YouTube video can be found here - http://youtu.be/0b3I7psoSnw