White Guy Sucks at Game Dev

Chronicling my journey into learning to make videogames, maybe one day even growing beyond Hello World!

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Just an idea I had a while back that I wanted to write for some practice. You supply character sheets for each hero (or just the ones you play) and this program will recommend different picks for you based on the enemy team and your match-up preferences. Don’t like playing Riki against Zues? No Problem! Editing your preferences is as easy as editing a plain english text file, all of which are loaded automatically.

note: as of recording this I had only made 5 (and one blank (naga ) ) preference sheets for myself

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Base tileset for a roguelike where you scale a wizard tower. I know it’s pretty plain but it’s just something I threw together so I could get started with dungeon generation.

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Made a nice little program to test out dungeon generation algorithms with

source code and exe

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Made minesweep(er) for fun, only one size of board and the volume slider doesn’t effect anything as there isn’t any sound. But still, it’s minesweep(er).

Code and .exe

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Rewrote Ui class using SDL, class was previously written using SFML

I think I prefer it

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Finished my animation program, or at least the first complete version of it. Takes a PNG containing a frames and “animates” it

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Reworked my Ui class to add some more functionality, and made things easier to use for the programmer.

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Added in walls the pathing algorithm takes into account, .exe and source code provided in a link below for those interested.

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Made a program to test a grid based movement algorithm that randomly selects one of the shortest paths between two squares and draws it to the screen

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Added size adjustment, the program will create squares of random sizes between the minimum and maximum size shown at the top of the screen. The code is a mess but is provided below.

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Made a UI class recently, and made this little program to test it out.

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Ma pute, voulez-vous rester avec moi ce soir?

While my hands may be encrusted in the customary remains of Canadian breakfasts past, and while I can sweeten a tea by dipping a finger in it; I am not Canuck enough to speak Français. Funny, considering I live within walking distance of Quebec.

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colour theory is important in everything digital, how do you feel about that?

I’ve read into some color theory, I’m not a very artistic person, usually I just rummage around the color picker in photoshop trying to find a few colors that don’t visually assault me when I glance at them, then cobble together some poor-mans attempt at a UI using them (since UIs are pretty much all I have worked on so far)

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Wrote a class for ‘towers’, new ‘towers’ can be easily created and have a unique range, look, and position

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Simple targeting system, circle visualizes the attack range

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window can be scaled and everything still works fine, just need to make sure everything sticks to the pixel grid

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My first attempt at making a decent looking game UI, work starts on the actual gameplay today