#superrandomcat

[ph2k]

Got a few hours to work on Random Cat tonight and was able to squash a bug with moving platforms I was fighting before my extended break.

When the platform moved down it was making Random Cat bounce on the platform. I solved it by refactoring the way the moving platform interacts with the random cat class so instead of Random Cat moving because he is touching the block, the block now sends messages to random cat to move!

I need to apply these changes to a few of the other interactions between elements such as the enemies. Currently the death of Random Cat or the enemy is handled by the Random Cat class but handling so of this in the enemy itself would be better. That's a job for next week!

[ph2k]

Going to try get back into Game Development.

In retrospect trying to complete 1 game a month was a silly thing for me to attempt.  

At the start of this  year I started what was supposed to be just 1 or 2 levels of a platform game for submission to the first month of the 1 game a month challenge but I fell in love with making the game and I couldn't let it loose in to the world that month, it wasn't ready yet! So I waited for the next month. February passed and I still wanted to work on this game more, I felt bad I was going to miss another month but I couldn't let this baby go just yet. March passed by and the polish on my game was really starting to shine it went from a really basic platform game to one with some more advanced mechanics and my own art, still it wasn't ready and I really started to feel like I had failed.

Some time around May it got to me. I had failed my goal of making 1 simple game a month. In 5 months I had completed a grand total of 0 games and even though I had this amazing game coming to life it had the feeling of failure mixed in with that success. All I could think while working on Super Random Cat was I had failed and if I tried to start something new I felt like I had failed even more. So I stopped working on anything.

I think its time to try get back into it though. Its now September this month I have failed at completing 9 games and I don’t care anymore. I have realized now that 1 Game a Month just wasn't for me. I never failed as I never even started in the first place. I love the idea of 1 Game a Month I can see how it would help some people’s confidence and ability by completing lots of smaller simple games but for me personally it added a level of responsibility and stress that just made me feel like I was failing when I was actually winning.

[ph2k]

Was able to get a little coding done last night so I worked on getting the crushing blocks motion looking good and easy to use in the level editor.

The path points are taken from the level XML file and a motion tween is created using them, so it can be made to drop any distance and speed from the level editor! Next is to get moving platforms working in a similar way!

[ph2k]

Completed a few changes to Super Random Cat on the weekend! 

The camera now centers on Random with a small dead zone in the center. 

Added 1 UPs in the form of larger cat food tins with randoms face on them!

Added Bomb Dogs, I still need to add a count down and damage to other dogs to them. Before they explode you can kick them, they also stick to walls when kicked.

This weekend I hope to get crush blocks and moving platforms working!

You can play the latest version Here!

[ph2k]

Super Random Cat. New test version!

I put up a new test version of Super Random Cat on the weekend! Made a few changes to the controls but still have a bit of work to do on that side of things!

You can check it out here http://ph2k.nfshost.com/superRandomCat/ 

Also Gabicoware on youTube did a awesome play test of my game on youtube Here! Pretty amazing that someone took the time to do a video of my little game! :D