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KnightFyre Game Development Blog

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Spooky Tower - An update.

It’s almost Halloween, and the patch isn’t done yet.  It’s getting there, but it’s not at the level where I would be comfortable letting people play it yet.  I’ve been super busy with uni work and a few other projects that I’ve been working on that I’ve just kinda not been able to dedicate as much time to this patch as I thought I would. There’s quite a few things that still need to be changed, added and polished.  

I am working on it though, and I’ve had some good feedback from a few people who have play tested what I have so far. This new version has more features but also far less clutter, which is nice!  That’s been a big focus this patch.  I wanted to remove all the unnecessary stuff from the game’s menus and clean up the UI a little.

A few notable new features:

-Doors now close behind you so it makes it a little easier to escape some enemies!

-New abilities, including Lightning Bolt and Water Blaster

-New environmental objects, such as fire!

-New enemy types (Ghosts, zombies...)

-A whole new map!

-New items, including an amulet (for a new gameplay mechanic) and armour which increases your overall health

I’ll update you guys again when the patch is closer to completion! 

Also, I'm gonna be changing the alias I release games under soon.  I’ll have more info on that soon.

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A new plan for Battle Tower

Due to good feedback on battle tower I am going to try and create an extended version of the game that addresses some of the missing features I never had time to implement for the original version of the game as well as adding a ton of new stuff too.

Planned features include a bunch of new maps, with cool environments and new challenges.  I’m currently in the process of implementing one of the two maps I’ve already designed, with more to come!

I’m also planning on putting the first of the new maps, which is Halloween themed, in the Game Jolt version of the game as a free content patch if I can complete it before the 31st of October. I’ve got no planned release date for the final game yet, though.

It’s going to be a bit of a hassle because of the old battle tower code, but I think I can do it. I’ll be updating my progress on twitter.

http://twitter.com/noclu_

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Remember how I said I couldn’t find much footage of that one game?

Well now it’s up on gamejolt and you can play it for free :)

Go play it!

http://gamejolt.com/games/battle-tower/95202

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A bit of a change from the gamedev stuff I usually post.  I’ve been working on this song for a few days and I thought you guys might like it :)

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Shop system almost done!

After countless attempts at a new system for inventory and shops and things over the last month or so, I've finally gotten to the point where it’s almost finished and I've gotten past the scary stage where I had no idea what I was doing.  It’s taken a long time, but Knightfyre now has a shop interface that kinda works.  The next time I will be able to work on the game will be on Wednesday, and I hope to stream the finishing of this shop system!  After that I can move on to more interesting things, and I’ll try to get as much done of the game as possible before I start uni.

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I could only find like 10 seconds of footage, but this is the prototype version of knightfyre that I made for my school game development project earlier this year!  I’ll try to see if I can fix up the prototype version that I have on my PC that right now doesnt work very well in new versions of game maker studio or resolutions other than 1280x720.  When I do I’ll try to make sure I stream it or something!  Maybe I’ll put it on gamejolt

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On the topic of old things, January 28, 2014 is the first mention of KnightFyre on my computer.  KnightFyre is the game I’m working on right now, but at the time that I made this it was a completely different idea.  I can’t even remember a lot about it, only that it was gonna be a top down rpg mmo thing, still with a similar dungeon setting to the game right now though.

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Oh my, this is also really old.  It’s pretty much my first attempt at modelling a 3D character back maybe 4 years ago! It was from an idea for an endless runner style game I wanted to make, but I had no idea at the time how to really do it... Maybe one day I’ll get round to doing something with it, but for now all I have is a bunch of really old renders of this character.

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Wow.. This is old.  I found some old screenshots from old games I made back a few years ago, this one was a text based game I made in VB6 and didn't get very far with!  It looks kinda cool though imo, like some kinda really old game from a time in computing I never really experienced

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I actually streamed today! 

Got to work on the new inventory system! Also my placeholder art for those swords is the worst.  If you missed it, I’m hoping to stream game development a little more regularly, and you can find out when I’m streaming by following me at http://twitch.tv/nocluegames

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Here, have a screenshot from the early development of my new game, KnightFyre :)

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I just launched a game! It’s free and it’s about a square thing that you can make jump and stuff, but you can’t control it horizontally.  t’s pretty difficult, and I think it looks really nice :D  http://gamejolt.com/games/climbr/81636

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I just launched a game!

I just launched a game called #climbr on Game Jolt for free!  You can play it on Windows and Android there! It’s about a square blob thing that looks kinda nice and it jumps on things!  It’s really difficult though, so don’t de too hard on yourself if you can’t get far!  http://gamejolt.com/games/climbr/81636

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Climbr nearing completion!

Climbr is almost done, and it looks like it’s gonna be the first android game that I’ll release to the public!  Due to some stuff beyond my control, it won’t be released at least until august.  I’ll be showing off the game more and more as it reaches the end of development!   I’m not gonna release any gameplay details jussst yet though. Stay tuned.

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BROKCHRD 

Free 1080p Creative Commons visual:  https://vimeo.com/131874019 Download Cinema4D project file: http://beeple-crap.com/resources.php

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KnightFyre #GameDev Journal #1

It’s mid June, and I haven’t streamed since late May.  After thinking my summer had started and I could work on KnightFyre more frequently, I was met with a bunch of unforeseen school stuff, and then I was sick for a while and at that time I couldn't stream.  In the meantime I've added a few things to the game, including a few AI behaviours, ladders, and ledges, 

The next challenge for me will be the inventory system.  I want to make sure that this inventory makes more sense than the last one, which was similar to that of a MOBA, but didn't fit well with the rest of the game.  I don’t know what I want to do with it yet.  I have even considered dropping the inventory system all together to create a really streamlined experience but I think that could take away too much from the RPG aspects of the game that I'm looking to create.

More streams coming soon!

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Knightfyre Redux

I'm starting from scratch.

The version of the game that I have been since September has gotten really clumsy and huge.  The code is really inefficient, and I think if I do this right, starting over will take this game from alright to pretty good.  It’ll also hopefully make the whole process of developing this game and any other games afterwards much easier, as I'm planning on focussing a lot of the development on scripts and modules I can then drop into anything to give whatever it is certain shared behaviours, instead of coding each thing individually.   I’ve been working on it for the past week, and you can check out the early results here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0BWIoBBF_0

I’m also streaming the development of this game on twitch.  You can find my twitch page here: http://twitch.tv/nocluegames 

If you want to find out when my streams will be on, it is also a good idea to follow my twitter: http://twitter.com/noclu_