Asteroid Blasteroid

Devlog

• Post Project Thoughts
  September 28, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Total development time was around 19 hours if you include time saved by copying code I already had from my past projects. I've now spent another 3 hours publishing the game, releasing the source code... Continue reading
• Day 13: Control Choice
  September 26, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 2 hours I gave the game to a friend to play, and their immediate reaction was "I don't like tilt to move, why can't I tap?" Since I had already met the game jam deadline, I decided... Continue reading

  
• Day 12: Device Controls
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 1 hour Today the device controls needed to be fixed. I had previously used the gyroscope for control in the GameDev Journey game I made for MeatlyJam , but I wasn't happy with the g... Continue reading
• Day 11: Enemy Behaviours, Shields, Credits
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 2.5 hours I added 4 different enemy behaviours. To call them AI would be too much of a compliment, they're pretty dumb. I thought about having them follow preset paths (like waves... Continue reading
• Day 10: High Score Names
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 1 hour Having high scores isn't too fun without the ability to save your name with your high score, so I reworked the highscores.lua file and added the name to the high score list... Continue reading
• Day 9: Adding Enemies
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 2 hours I created two new control icons and then changed the menu controls for "play" and "high scores" from text to graphics. By adding the background animations the overall game an... Continue reading
• Day 8: Animations and UI
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 1.5 hours (plus ~30 minutes saved by copying the volume slider code) I didn't think the ship should explode when it ran out of energy, so I created a new "out of energy" sound effec... Continue reading
• Day 7: Energy Crystals
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 2 hours Using Fireworks I created a crystal / gem image and exported two sizes (20px and 40px). Then when asteroids were exploding I assigned a random chance that a gem would be pro... Continue reading
• Day 6: Audio, Energy Bar
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 1.5 hours I opened all of the background audio tracks in Audacity and reduced the volume, they were all pretty loud for background music. I exported the new mp3 files at constant bi... Continue reading
• Day 5: Explosions, Asteroid Size, Controls
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 1 hour (plus ~30 minutes saved by copying the explosion images) I added some random scaling to the asteroids so they weren't all the same size, and then adjusted the torque applied... Continue reading
• Day 4: Parallax Background
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 2 hours I thought some more about the parallax background concept and decided to have three layers: layer 1 would be more larger and more diffuse stars in the distance moving at a sl... Continue reading
• Day 3: Settings, Background Music
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 45 minutes (plus ~1 hour saved by copying db.lua) I copied libraries/db.lua from Wabbit Wars and re-used the code that would save some settings in a local sqlite database. I changed... Continue reading
• Day 2: Create The Project Files
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 1 hour I created a new project in Eclipse and imported all of the source files into it. The organization of the project was fairly flat so I created a few new folders: "scenes", "li... Continue reading

  
• Day 1: Exploring
  September 25, 2017 by Prairiewest

  Development time: 15 minutes I entered into the CoronaDefoldJam https://itch.io/jam/coronadefoldjam . The goal is to make a game that fits into the Ludem Dare theme of "running out of power". My idea... Continue reading