I have wanted to, for many years now, get into interactive fiction, or Adventure Games as we used to call them in the 80s. I'm a grown man now with and while I have never really wanted to enter the game development business, I still have always dreamt of making a Adventure Game of my own. Many years ago now I started a uTibe chan where I reviewed old classic games and this stoked the desire for me to do a C++ Programming course, but life got in the way. Still, now that things have settled down I wish to revive this dream. I'm keeping it on a "hobby" level though. I figure if I just stop my miniature painting I'll gain many hours for this new hobby.
So long story short. I'm a total noob at gamedev.. with nearly zero experience in all aspects of it, apart from some rudimentary C++.
I hope to use this blog will chart my progress as I learn C# and Unity in the goal to produce a 1/2 decent adventure game.
So I got really unmotivated over the course of the last few years. My hobby project got put aside and thne there always seemed like something new to come along and take my time away. Family, Covid, Lockdown Depression and more. Still in my heart my text adventure project has never been far from my …
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So I decided to get back to my hobby Text Adventure Game project a week ago or so, but going has been slow. I have been fluffing about a lot in BodHi (a super light weight build of Ubuntu), screwing with MonoDevelop and SFML.NET. I even took a look at HAXE. It is important to me that th…
So… after a long break and being terrible productive with things that actual pay my bills I have decided to resurrect my old “learn programming” project…. I'll have more detailed info for anyone that reads this in the near future.. My guess is I will probably need to re-write everything from scratc…
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So, I have gotten a lot sidetracked recently!! A number of things have been competing for my time!
For starters when I started to learn to programme, I found the time by scaling back my model painting. By model painting, I mean miniature painting. You know, little sci-fi armie…
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So I have been working pretty steadily on the command phraser and discovered that it is an exponential problem. I get that "natural language processing" is a gigantic topic, so I shouldn't be surprised.. but I hoped to be able to fudge it to some degree using keywords. The core id…
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Well, I'm back, and I think the project has made some significant forward progress. To be honest I wish I spent more time trying to learn to programme before attempting something complicated like this project. I mean, it isn't really complicated relative to people that know what th…
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Quick progress report.. or lack thereof.
I have not been putting the time into this recently due to extended family visiting and doing the host / tourist guide thing... but I started working again today. All I need to do is add the dynamic word list building and the engine is …
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So I have gone through all my code and got back up to scratch on everything. I am now confident in my methodologies and logic paths I was thinking of for the game loop. If this experience has taught me anything it is that I HAVE TO START USING COMMENTS MORE.
There was a lot of …
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So I spent most of the day re-acquainting myself with the code of my project, after my near 6 month break from computers. Not a break from the project but literally, I didn't have any computer or access to the internet beyond my phone. This was a lot harder than I thought as I had…
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So... it has been a long time form the last time I posted anything on this blog. Hell, it has been a long time since I even had a computer TO post anything on this blog. I recently moved house, well recently as in 4 months ago and the move was only part of a bunch of huge life chan…
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So if anyone has been following this project, you may have noticed a massive drop in progress, as in literally zero progress. I just wanted to make a quick post to say that this project is still very much on and at the forefront of my goals.
I am currently moving house and have…
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This is a quick post as I wanted to get something "shown".
So this is just a quick demonstration of the application running. It is showing the start screen and then playing the Cinimatic_Enter for the 1st room you find yourself in. There are a few features you can see…
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So after rebuilding the project I think I have condensed things into a much easier format for me to move through. Basically I split some classes, and removed a lot of the jumping around. So once data is "sent" to a class, it just stays there. My old system I was passing variables a…
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I've been a little slack and not spent a lot of time on the project the last few days but after an extended session last night and today I think it may be time to strip the entire project back and have another whack at it by building fresh code with a clearer idea of what I want to…
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So the new year is upon us and after taking a few days off to do family things over the holidays I managed to get some time into my Test Adventure Game Project. As mentioned in the last DevDiary I wanted to build a base skeleton for the game so I could work on the meat of the proje…
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It is time to really get my teeth into my new project. I'll be using posts on this blog called "dev diaries" (original huh?) for this project as a way to take notes and organise my thoughts. Also with luck I may get some practical input form more experienced people. I started on th…
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Despite advice from a friend to jump into the deep end and get my teeth into a "real world project" I was still interested in doing some guided exercises to get my brain into gear. To that end after some duck'n (duck-duck-go 4dawin yo!) I found an old tutorial from a website called…
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So GameDev.net seems to run these "community challenge projects". The next one is called "Survive, Loot, and Discover! It's Time for the Dungeon Crawler Challenge". …
G'Day... so I am about a week into trying to learn C# and have been enjoying it so far. I am learning from a book called "The C# Players Guide" and in it around Chapter 20 is what the author calls a "mid term project". To make my first actual application. A TicTacToe game. This is obviously some…
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So I have been doing a lot of work in the console as I try and learn the basics of C#. I got sick of going all over the place for ASCII symbols to use as "graphics" in my console apps so thought I would simply list them all here
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I like blogging and generally assuming people are listening to me... but I also like things to look cool. I wanted a quick and easy way to make Banner Images for my new GameDev.Net Blog... so I created a PSD Template for that. Basically there are two safe frames... One is for Thumbna…
Hello... This is my version of the Chapter 18 CLASS exercise about throwing and popping a bunch of balls.
: NOTES : Random()For the most part as I worked through the exercise things became clear but I am still confused about "scope" or w/e it is called that determines when a variable i…
Well.. the place to start is at the beginning, yet I have started this blog about a week into my new hobby. So unfortunately this blog will be missing the initial steps of my own personal development. Yet I guess it is close enough.
I have mapped my short term goals into a few early mileston…
