Tag: Games From Nothing

Games from Nothing: Post-Mortem — Attendance

During our playtest we found that our game was for the most part a success. We had one downfall from the playtest and that was to some the game felt a bit stupid a novelty. Isaac and I got together…

Games from Nothing: Conference Project Post #2 — Attendance

After some hard programming we finally have a functioning game that we will go to playtest in the class. So we have that interface I posted in my last post, but now we have an official lose state and win…

Games from Nothing: Conference Project Post #1 — Attendance

Isaac and I are working on a conference game together. The entire semester we have been working on an idea called BridgeBuilder. I’ve mentioned it various times in earlier posts. However, we have finally decided to not do BridgeBuilder we…

Games from Nothing: Group Game #2 — Hider/Seeker

Before creating a game using the hider/seeker engine I wanted to practice with it first. So in this simple exercise I created a simple circle that is being chased by a triangle. In this program each quadrant does something different…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #4 — Particles

I think I had the most fun playing around with particle systems. I spent a lot of my time just going into the base particle codes and just messing around with them seeing what I could make with them. At…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Transforms

Transforms were some of the most confusing things to get working for me. For this assignment, using the transforms, we were supposed to make a program that was like an amusement park in some sort of way. I wanted to…

Games from Nothing: Group Game #1 — Bammer

So for the group game, my group first worked on a project that we called Bridge Builder. And for bridge builder the basic idea was that there was a canyon of death that your character needed to cross and in…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #2 — Monster in the Village

For the next lab I wanted my race to the end monster lab to be a simple game where you avoid objects moving up and down the screen to reach a safe zone. Basically it is the idea of the…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #1 — Circular Motion

For the first lab I wanted to keep things simple using the circular motion code. My idea for my game was to have a bunch of rotating circles across the middle of the screen constantly rotating. Then by pressing on…

Games from Nothing: Conference Project Post #1 — Particle Synth

This is the initial sketch I drew after we experimented with hider/seekers using vectors. I wanted to experiment with lots of particles seeking around a central point. I began trying to implement seeking into a particle system, and this was…