#epicadventurequestgame

[jamaldolleygames]

Game Dev Journey No. 31

I have been busy for the last week working on my horror proof of concept prototype, in addition to looking for employment.

This time instead of using my bunny player character, I instead swapped it out with Ripley from Alien 3 for the NES. I have also added an Alien as an enemy, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. As the assets don't belong to me I’m just using it for testing purposes at the moment.

After 2-3 long days, I was able to get the animations for both Ripley and the Alien to work. One of the main setbacks was not having access to photoshop, as Im still only using my Macbook Air, due to my pc still being in Doha.

I had to instead use a feeble art app from the Itunes Appstore and the OS picture preview app to clean the sprite sheets. You will notice that the Alien and Ripley still has some green/pink background pixels stuck to them in addition to holes in the sprites due to using these bad apps,I have to admit that it worked okay for what I wanted to achieve.

Due to my struggles with the sprite sheets, I just bought a Sketchbook Pro membership, now I will be able to go back to creating my own art assets ;)

I'm growing more frustrated that I cannot work on Epic Adventure Quest as I'm so close to launch, hopefully I will get my pc back at the end of this month. For now however i'll still continue to work on the prototype.

[jamaldolleygames]

Game Dev Journey No. 29

I haven't been blogging for the last week, so many things has happened since my last blog post. We have moved to another country yet again and last week was a stressful week to say the least. I am however digging the new place, it is a lot different than the last country/city we lived in. Life seems a lot more chilled and laid back over here, in addition to having some nice mountains and foliage around the city :)

This time I wanted to bring my gamedev PC with me on the flight instead of having to send it via the movers, ala the last move to Doha, Qatar. Not taking my PC with me would result in me having to wait weeks for the delivery by the movers, like last time and not being able to continue my game’s development. As my gamedev PC is quite heavy, I had to really reduce it’s weight before the flight.

I managed to reduce the weight Mark Whatney style by removing the GPU, DVD Writer and HDD’s, I then boxed it up with some makeshift box I tapped together :) The idea was to keep the weight within the weight range of a single piece of luggage, as per the airline’s policy.

I was very determined to take it with me on the flight, only to discover at the airport that the dimensions were not as per the required check in luggage policy. I eventually had to send the PC back to a friends place, in order for me to collect it later.

As you can expect this was a major downer, as I am really close to completing Epic Adventure Quest, a game that I have been working on for the last 9 months at this point. Now I have to wait another 2-3 weeks before I can continue development.

With so much free time on my hands, I am thinking of using my small laptop to do some prototypes for my next game while I'm waiting for my PC.