Bad weather, multi-day power outages, a fun chest cold, and several other excuses led to my recent absence/lack of progress..
Working on getting back into the sling of things. I think I needed a hiatus though, it had actually been months since I watched a movie or tv show. I can't say t…
Okay, it's been a busy couple of weeks, I've been playing with shaders and retouching meshes and all kinds of fun things.
- Aiming/Shot Camera is now right-click, it orients to your current facing/throwing direction, and changes if you do. I've eliminated the reverse camera angle for now(fo…
Okay some new/improved things:
- Mini-Map! Displays player location(direction arrow doesn't point in the "moving" direction yet though..), arena level locations(still just 1 atm) and turret locations.
- Turrets now pay out 20 rings on disable! The good kind of feedback.
- There are …
It's been a while since I posted any code.. Here are some handy methods that I've been using frequently in my SlingBots game. Keep in mind, some examples use local variables where it's better to reuse variables with more scope for memory/GC reasons in practical application. If you see somet…
Okay, so major notable changes/updates in this build(mostly untested):
- Revamped player steering and lots of tweaks to the way the player interacts with surfaces in the game. As a side effect you can now almost fly endlessly(with airBoost Fuel) by tapping the flip back button and keeping th…
So, I got really close to getting a new build out last night, maybe tonight.
If you've played thus far, you've probably noticed there wasn't any music. I hadn't even thought about it much, more of a final touches thing in my mind I guess..
But then I got a DM a week or so ago, randomly…
Been working and reworking a whole lot of things in SlingBot Boarding over the past few days. I've finished up some of the lingering aspects of the NPC steering code, so they're a bit more reliable and less twitchy. I've also been reworking some of the player controller code... Mainly because…
Look what I can do! Look what I can do! (Imagine some explosion sfx)
Oh this is wicked fun! They don't do any "damage" as yet(nothing does actually..hmm..), but they cause some serious chaos, especially during races. And propulsion, I'm getting pretty good at moving some distance just…
I should watch what I say.. I think it was yesterday I posted about new animations and how little time it took me because there were only two.
And today my animator looks like this..
mhmmmm!
Here's some visuals, use your imagination when I say snowball.. it's not there yet.
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So, I finally got tired of the jerky mismatched and borrowed animations I was using for the robots. It actually only took me an hour or two to whip up the new working animation set(there's only 2 of them.. sooo..) haha.
Anyhow, NEW ANIMATIONS!! They look WAY smoother than the old ones. A…
The Problem:
Generate a method to score the players accuracy in navigating any loaded race course, on uneven terrain.
The Data:
Courses are recorded by users/players and stored as an array of positions that define the central "line" of the course.
The player controller maintains …
hahaha! Well, I wasn't able to make myself code very much for a couple of days there, so I'm calling that my weekend for the next little while. Today I think I've built and tested no less than 10 WebGL builds getting todays v0.3.3 online.
With this build you should finally be able to load…
Okay, I was fully intending to be posting about my designs for a dungeon crawler prototype that would serve double duty as the intro for my other macro-project.
That, will not be happening. I've decided that to split my attentions yet again would be folly. I have a good game prototype tha…
Well, I fell a little bit short on my goal of a complete game on multiple platforms. But I got a fairly complete game prototype on 1 sorta tricky platform, and that can easily be ported to at least two or three others with some minimal tweaking. So, close enough for my personal challenge.
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So, I found what I suppose you could call a bug.
And it explains why I've been having so much trouble(I have been, btw) tuning the NPCs on the race courses in my game SlingBot Boarding. In order to create similarly behaving NPCs to player characters, I'm using a similar script and I'm basi…
Well, maybe not ALL, but all I can fit into one of my days.
UI sprites packed into an atlas, all other materials/textures are correctly instancing and taking up as few draw calls as I can manage, it floats around 15-30 per frame, at the moment, depending on activity.
My build size has do…
So, this is the post as it was started, at about 2am last night:
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I love days where most of the code I work on is unattached to online APIs. Been coding for 10+ hours and I've only done a WebGL build twice now. And that might be it.
We finally hav…
Time for the 3AM Roundup! What was I doing all evening??.. hmm..
So, finally, these RocketBoards are ROCKETBoards! No more put-put'n around on the ground, no no no!
I've completed the currency circle and now you can exchange your shiny golden rings for some airBoost Fuel!
1ring = …
So, it was time I added a form of currency to SlingBot Boarding. I've been working out how to make the game more interesting and I also wanted to incorporate more classic game elements.
So, say hello to Spinning Golden Rings!
build v0.2.1: https://www.kongregate.com/games/WilliamOlyOl…
So, I've built v0.2.0.. and it's well after 3:00am my time this go-round. haha
In this build I've started to implement sounds, currently I have a wind sound for ambiance and a fairly rough(sounds much better in the editor) board/snow sound. For some reason it sounds like the High Pass Fil…
It can be done.. I got PlayFab leader-boards WORKING!!!
heh, it's past 2am..
In spite of my trouble yesterday, I decided to give it another go and somehow it all just worked. I think I got ahead of myself yesterday and just wrote too much code in one sitting without running it. I can s…
Game Link: https://www.kongregate.com/games/WilliamOlyOlson/slingbot-boarding
Okay, all non-racing stats are now updating Kongregate leader-boards. (Best Trick(combo trick points), Best Airtime(time in air in ms), Best Flight(longest linear distance in air), Best Speed(fastest recorded spee…
Well, it's not complete but I think the gears are all there now. I still need to incorporate leader-boards, build some NPCs and do some more fine tuning here and there.
Still, not much more than a toy, but it's pretty fun!
https://www.kongregate.com/games/WilliamOlyOlson/slingbot-board…
So, it's 2am and I'm writing a blog entry. I must be waiting on a Unity WebGL build to complete so I can upload it and THEN check if my Kongregate API code hacks are working yet...
Wow, never expected this journey to be like this. I suppose I never do anything the easy way. So now I'm int…
I've got a few more features to cram in here before I put out another toy build, but here's what I got going today:
Scoring System: points are accumulated for Air Time, and rotations(tricks) that are performed while in the air(right now, just turning and flipping). A combination multiplier …
Day 2, Sling Bot Racing.
Toy Build #2 "NOW WITH 100% MORE FLIPPING!!"
Actually so, and not only that, an entirely revamped camera follow routine. It's much more like an actual "follow" camera now, as in it follows you and faces you, but doesn't always point the same direction the p…
