Monthly Archives: October 2013
Words for young game developers and Northern Game Summit
Last week I attended the Northern Game Summit, an awesome event hosted in Kajaani Finland. The event gathered somewhere around 700 attendees who all got one thing in common – creating awesome games.
I was lucky enough to be invited there to keep three presentations around Unity and game development. My talks was around getting started with developing games, getting your games published to Windows Store and Windows Phone Store, and how to get connected using the cloud.
Most of my content was based on my Unity for Windows tutorial series – but the coolest thing was the networking and meeting some of the guys behind Angry Birds, Badland, EVE Online, Alan Wake and a lot of motivated startups and students with one thing on their mind – trying to create good games, and experience worth hours of gameplay for us consumers.
Somehow, Finland manages to create games that…
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How to program a Role Playing Game with Sprite Kit
For anyone that stumbles onto this blog, you’ll probably be interested in some “premium” video tutorials. Assorted code snippets are great, but there comes a time for epic learning, and that can best be delivered with a real project and video tutorials. My latest Sprite Kit lesson is 8 hours long (divided up into shorter 10-20 minute movies) and covers a long-time favorite topic of mine, Role Playing Games!. I’ll give you a brief overview of the lesson below, but you can find out more at the sales page.
Each level is a physics based world, one thing we will do early on is program our own debug borders around the physics objects. This way we can see exactly what the collision area is around the world, characters, etc. This was an easy option to turn on with Cocos2d, but unfortunately with Sprite Kit, you need to do a…
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2013-9-30 journal, design
While working today, I decided on something sort of interesting with one of the entities in the game. It arose accidentally.
In Even the Ocean, there are entities which launch water very quickly. It’s magic water though (…or something!), and when you touch it, your velocity becomes the same as the water – so the bullets launch upwards, thus, you kind of get boosted upwards into the air when touching a bullet.
I can choose how many “bullets” each entity launches – I set the default to five. The bullets all launch at the same time, but have staggered velocities (i/n * max_vel, where i = bullet index, n = nr of bullets). The way I set the velocity of the player is: if on a frame of the game, the bullet touches the player, then increment a “push velocity” counter which will be added to the players velocity…
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Graph Search (Depth Search)
Depth Search is an algorithm that traverses a graph to find an item, the logic behinds this search is this, Let’s assume that the first node be A, and I am looking at the neighbour of A node and there are 3 neighbours, B,C,E are the nodes alphabeticaly in order.
The first node to be visited in this list is B, after, I am going to visit the neighbour of B’s node, and it has only one neighbour, and that is D, now the turn is D’s neighbour and that is only one, final node is G.
Then, the tour is A, B, D, G and if the item being searched has been found on this stage, then we terminate the process, if we can not find it, then we should backtrack from G to the previous node, and that is D and now I am searching D’s neighbours except G…
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Khuram Ali 