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Week13 - Attack of the Manic Slimes Postmorten

Achievement

After spending these few week developing, playtesting and improving our game, we were able to get close to what our original ideas reflected. We were able to do the following:

Add Slimes with special abilities

Red ones that divide into two smaller versions when shot (except small)

Blue ones that are small and faster than regular small ones

Green ones that are medium-sized and shoot back at the player

Yellow ones that are large-sized and require multiple shots to kill

Add sound effects such as:

When shooting the gun

When killing a slime

Improve the art so it fits the original theme better (pixelated)

Re-worked other pieces of art for certain menus

Add animations when:

The Space Man fires his weapon

Slimes get killed (some work, some don’t)

Slimes move towards the player

Add different abilities for the player

A fire rate ability that increases the fire rate of the gun temporarily

Add a difficulty system that changes how hard the game is

Add a help menu

Let the player navigate to the main menu once they Win/Lose/Pause the game

I am satisfied that result and I proud of my team mate. We did really good jobs, but unfortunately we missed some features. There is list below

A bomb that kills all of the slimes on screen

A laser ability that shoots a constant laser temporarily

A shield ability that grants the player invincibility for a short amount of time

Fast-paced background music to immerse the player better

Gameplay Screenshots

Show screen shot below is the title of this game.

Final Thought

In conclusion, our team's done a lot of things with GDevelop in this a few weeks. We were in good communication with each other and functioned as a group. I worked on this game as a programmer in this team. It was a useful experience for the future. Faslty, I was really confused about how to use GDevelop, but when I get used to using it, it was really easy to use and simple way to make game. When join this class, I do not like to learn GDevelop, because I did never listened about GDevelop before, but currently I am happy to learne GDevelop. Overall, it was a great semester making video games, and I’m satisfied with the amount that I’ve learned so far.

I appreciate everyone in my team and all tuter in IGB220.

Final Game Link

https://games.gdevelop-app.com/game-0f8cba07-02ab-4a9f-8556-df944b314e97/index.html

Gameplay Video

https://youtu.be/MdJQTGhNbjA 

Sprite Acknowledgement

This link is for space background

Zink, H. (2019). 10 Websites With Stellar Space Background Photos. DigitalAddicts.https://digitaladdictsblog.com/stellar-space-background-photos/

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Week 11 Playtesting

We did playtesting through the Discord. I did notetaker in palytest and made the scripts for playtest.

 The way to do playtest is following the example on blackboard. Therefore, I just took memo and then we got a lot of feedback about our game. After playtest, we start to develop the game following the feedback. There are some points which confuse players and unkind thing. So, we have fixed these points currently and I’ve done some points as programmer. According to feedback, there is not much difference between two difficulties that are hard and middle. This thing gives player less sense of accomplishment, so I decided to change the difficulty level is obvious. I changed spawn rate of slimes and moving speed of slimes. 

This is what I’ve done this week. 

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Week 10 - Assignment 3 Development Progress

New Features Brainstorm

After we've done assignment part A. We did some barainstorm meeting and each member suggested idea how do we make this game better. We organised these idea and made list. Show list below is about what we have idea about updating game and to make game better. So we start to focus to implement these thing below.

Development Progress

My role is Programmer and my task is implementing difficulty in game. Firstly I started to find which part is the best to be main thing of changing difficulty. I decided spawn number of slime, moving speed of slime, the type of slime which can appear. The version1.0 was really difficult, so I difined the version1.0 as difficult and I started make Medium. To make Medium, I have reduced the number of slimes that appear. So basically, Medium is less slimes appears than Hard mode. Soon after I finished making game, I started to make easy mode. I wanted to make really easy mode like the mode player can use as tutorial. Therefore, we had four different type of slimes. Among them, Yellow slime and blue slime is bit strong and not suit for easy mode, so I deleted them from easy mode. Moreover, I reduced value of spwan rate and the moving speed of slime tremendously. As a result, I though easy mode is rally easy and everyone can clear even player who is first time to play this game.

I am really looking forward to see feedback of playtest next week.

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Week9 - Assignemnt 3

Group Formation

I knew Balazs game and I was impressed by his game system. So, I decided to join his group and improve his game and then soon we had a group ready, including two programmers; myself and Ryuto, a very talented artist; Flynn, and someone who’s good with words; Scott. All member has different skills so I an excited to do assignment 3 with them.

TimeLine

After group formation, we decided on everyone's roles, my role is notetaker and programmer. Since I made similar to his game. After that, we made timeline.

Show below photo is timeline schedule:

Communication Methods

We use Discord as a comunication tool. We made a group for assignment 3 in it. Therefore, we could check up on how everyone’s going with their work, daily.

I am so excited to update the game.

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Week 8 - Driving under the airport Postmortem

Firstly, form development list last week, finally I decided the name of game. It is Driving under the airport!!

Goals Accomplished

I implemented some staff in this game last week. The list below is what I was able to implement thing.

Fancy Start Menu and End Menu

Score system

There are two mode which are easy and hard

The speed increased system

Fancy characters image

Suit background

Add animation when player hit the enemy

Final Thoughts

Overall, I’m pleased with the final outcome of this game. Especially, I really like the speed increased system. However, I did not have much time to improve this game. So if I have more time, I might make better game and better game system. In addition, I should have implemented explanation of this game, because I got some feedback from my friends and they all say they want to know how to control and what is goal, but they like my increase my speed system. This system is might be useful for other game. Next time, when I make game, I’ll make use of experience. I’ll keep working this game, when I am free.

Acknowledgement

This was really useful web site when I made this game

http://wiki.compilgames.net/doku.php/gdevelop5/tutorials/roadrider

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week7 Racing game Development

Game Development Process

I leraned some basic way to how to make game in workshop and I decided use the work in class as base of this game and I added some features.

Firstly, I added the plane as character to prevent visibility like Little Green men in second game whet I've done last week.

Show screen shot below is actual image when the plane appeared.

The plane is very disturbing.

Secondly, I put score upper right position. When player pass though the car you get one point.

Thirdly, when player get point the speed of enemy is increased, but it is hard to adjust the speed of increase per one enemy car. Therefore, I changed the system like when player get 10 points the moving speed of enemies is increased 10.

For next week

The visual of game is bit boring, so I'll try to find good image of the background, enemy and player.

Find good value of the moving speed.

Create end screen.

Display score in win and lose menu.

Think about the name of this game.

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Week 6 - Racing Game Elevator Pitch

Game Description

This game is new style racing game like Temple Run. So, cars are going down from above and player have to avoid these cars. When player avoid the car, player will get one point. Each point will make speed of this game faster. This game end is when the car player controlled hit enemy. There is only one life points. This game is really simple. Therefore, this game is suit for all ages, but I aimed towards people of ages 8 - 15 of all genders.

Unique Aspects

Sound effects

player can move front

there is speedy mode

the speed will change according to current player score

Small story

Controls

A or Left arrow button to move to left lane

D or Right arrow button to move to left lane

W or upper arrow button to move to left lane

Game Concept Sketch

Show below is a sketch how the game I imagined looks like. There are four lane and I use cars as enemy.

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Week6 - Star Splash Postmortem

I finished make my second game. I was able to implement everything this time as well as first game. When I was doing these, I felt like most of goals are advanced level what I’ve learned. Therefore, it was difficult, but some parts were not hard.

Game Aspects

1. Fancy characters

2. Easy to play

3. Cool Audio

4. Player can move freely in all directions

5. Player score counter

What I implemented this week

Firstly, I implemented audio staff. I was not able to implement playing Audio and BGM both same time. So I only implemented shooting Audio and hit Audio.

Secondly, I implemented different types of Asteroids this Asteroids are faster than normal asteroids. Therefore, I named it fire ball and the image what I used is like meteorite.

Thirdly, I saw some asteroids spawn really close to player. It is not fun, when some play, so I changed the place where asteroids spawn. As a result, Asteroids only spawn out side of game scenes. It is good to playing game.

Final Thoughts

In conclusion, I am happy to finish to make second game. I’ve done most of my targets. I was able to learn various application elements by making this game. I still do not know how to implement playing BGM and Audio both. So I keep in my mind about this topic.

Acknowledgements

https://www.buddhilive.com/2020/05/adding-background-objects-to-game.html

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Week 5 - Game Development

By tuning in to this week’s workshop, I understood a brief understanding of how to make a classic Asteroid game.

The workshop taught me how I can get the player’s ship to aim where the player’s mouse was, the player can control ship freely, as well as how to spawn asteroids randomly around the game scene. Thankfully, I succeeded to implement the one of the goal which is Player can move freely in all directon. The classic Asteroid game was really easy to control, so I think I’ve done the first goal as well.

To make Fancy asteroid game, firstly I started to think what is fancy space and then I came up with Buzz light Year and Little Green Men. So I decided to use these characters and used Buzz as character instead of spaceship and little Green Men as enemy.

I used Little Green men as enemy like Asteroid, but I felt bad, so I changed to use Little Green Men as character just blocking the view. It is like just passing though the game screen. like below.

So, if player hit a Little Green Men, nothing happened, but player can not see Buzz, because Little Green Men hides him. To implement this thing, I learned about Z-axis in GDevelop and how it works and then I set background to be z-axis 1, player and asteroids 2 and Little Green Men 3.

Moreover, I added speed and spawn system for Little Green Men. As a result, Little Green Men pass though screen per 3sec. It is funny.

Secondly, I implemented the score system which means when player break asteroid +1 score. I used global variable for score. So, I can share the result score for all sense like start menu and end menu. Therefore, in my end menu, player can see own score.

This URL is where I learned about Z-axis

https://www.buddhilive.com/2020/05/adding-background-objects-to-game.html

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Week 4 - Asteroids Elevator Pitch

Game Description

The player controls a single spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy the asteroids and saucers, while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers' counter-fire. The game becomes harder as the number of asteroids increases. This game is based on classic Asteroids, but it is made with Fancy characters and two difficulties.

Unique Game Aspects

1. Fancy characters

2. Easy to play

3. Cool Audio

4. Player can move freely in all directions

5. Player score counter

Controls

Press A(left arrow): turning left

Press D(right arrow): turning right

Press W: going straight

Press space: shooting a bullet

Low Fidelity Sketch

Star command will be classic metroid game with fancy characters, but there are two diffirent levels.

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Week 4 - Platformer Postmortem

Objects

Throughout the game development of Nya adventure, I managed all objects.

1.Smooth the movement of the character.

2. Allow the player to move through key press inputs

3. Implement a start menu and result menu.

4. Implement BGM

5. Allows the player to step on the enemy to defeat it

6. Allow the player to earn points when they take coins

Fortunately, I achieved all task. All objects were not hard because of useful workshop and lecture. I would like to add new functions someday.

Final Game Thoughts

When I played the final game, it was the ideal game I first envisioned. There is not stress to play game. That is really good. I am really happy to manage that, but I only implemented simple system and the game has only one level present. Therefore, the game is bit boring. 

Acknowledgements

I used GDevelop wiki. This website is really useful and helpful. I really recommend to use this site when someone use GDevelop.

http://wiki.compilgames.net/doku.php/gdevelop5/tutorials/platform-game/start

http://wiki.compilgames.net/doku.php/gdevelop5/tutorials

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Week3: Game Development

I am keep going to implemet 6 things I posted on week2. There is a list

1.Smooth the movement of the character.

2. Allow the player to move through key press inputs

3. Implement a start menu and result menu.

4. Implement BGM

5. Allows the player to step on the enemy to defeat it

6. Allow the player to earn points when they take coins

I've done 1,2,4 and 6. I forgot to write about part 1 and 2 on week2 post. I'll start these parts first.

I made running animation and jump animation in the game. As a result, Nya(character player control) looks like walking and jumping and it work smoothly. On the second part, I implemented the key input. So, when the player press D or right arrow button, Nya moves to right, the player press A and left arrow button, Nya moves to left and the player press W or above arrow key, Nya jumps.

So, I start to implement 5 part. Firstly, I made player hit box. This hit box is formed rectangle and this is following Nya when Nya moves. This is for collision detection against enemy and juding how player collide with enemy. So, when this hit box collide with enemy and if the lowest y axis of this hit box is higher than the hightest y axis of the enemy, the enemy is deleted. If the conditions are not met, the game is over. That is what I've done on part 5.

About part 3, I used move scene function. So, when player arrive the goal, congratulation scene is appeared. Player can see score in this scene. To use in this scene, I set global variable to share score. So, when player done game, scene get globale variable called score and get value of score.

If player lose, lose scene is appeared.

To add more fun staff, I add some of clouds have collision detection. From below screen shot, when player collides with the could is in the middle, the game is over.

In this time, I did playtest with my friend. There is only a few minutes to do, so I got small feedback from him.

1, the point to change the direction of enemy is visibale, so he said it should be changed to invisible.

2, the game is really hard to achive goal

3,Nya is really cute

This game cocept is extremely hard to clear. So I do not care about feedback2. For the feedback1, I agreed with that, so I tried to implemente it. I found hide function and I set when the game scene is started, the hide function does start working. Therefore, the point is invisible, when the game start.

In conclusion, I implemeted all of my objects. I had fun to implement these things. I am really interested in implementing more staff. So I am keep imprementing and trying to improve this game to be better game.

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Week 2 - GDevelop Game Development Tutorials

objective 1. Smooth the movement of the character.

2. Allow the player to move through key press inputs

3. Implement a start menu and result menu.

4. Implement BGM

5. Allows the player to step on and defeat the enemy

6. Allow the player to earn points when they take coins

How to achieve these objectives 

To achieve these objectives, firstly I need to understand how making platformer games in GDevelop works. Therefore, I will need to join the lecture and workshop. Moreover, I will need to research about what kind of function does exist in GDevelop.

Development

I took classes and workshops and learned a lot about the features of GDevelop. I firstly implemented enemies and stage. All enemies can move to right and left. Some of them fall down when they stand edge of floor, but some of them do not fall down from floor. The way to implement movement of enemy is following the platform tutorial in GDevelop, so like I set two objects and when slime(enemy) touch that the direction slime moving is changed 180 degree. Moreover, I implemented BGM in this game and score system. I used Audio function in GDevelop to implement that. About score system, I implemented the text in game scene to see current player’s score and also when player get coin, the getting coin sound is played.

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Week 1 - Adventure of Nya

Game Description:

Adventure of Nya is a game where player the aim for the goal while avoiding traps. There are a lot of traps that try to lead the player to the game over and these are extremely hard to avoid. For example, when player start game and then after 3 seconds, one of the enemy drop in front of the player. There are sub aim is collecting coin and get score in stage. This sub aim is just to enjoy this game more. So, sub aim is unnecessary when u just aim clear the game. Given the game’s cartoony appearance, it’s primarily targeted towards young people between the ages of 8-20 of all genders.

Selling Points

1. Cute protagonist called Nya

2. The difficulty level is extremely high

3. Trial-and-error gameplay

4. Lots of traps that surprise players

5. Easy to operate the character

Controls

The controls are very easy to remember. W and spacebar to jump, D is to go right, A is to go left and Q is to open menu.

Low Fidelity Sketch

I’ve attached a basic sketch outlining how the game might look in it is final design. The character which has tow legs is Nya is protagonist of this game. The cycle staff is coin to get point. Other characters are enemy.

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About me

Hi, my name is Ryuto Nakazawa. I am learning Fundamental of game design. I write small introduction about me. I am studying game design in QUT. My favourite game is currently  Apex Legends, but I like a lot of games mainly are published by Nintendo. My first language is Japanese, but I speak English too.

My aiming of this unit is learning how to use  GDevelop and finding what is feature in GDevelop. I want be like a men who use Unity and GDevelop properly for each game.

Thx for reading.