Mac Boot Up Sound
Apple have recently brought back the Mac boot up sound. If you want to re-enable it on your Mac, open up a Terminal and type: sudo nvram StartupMute=%00Hit Enter and then type your password. If you want to turn it off. type the following into Terminal: sudo nvram StartupMute=%01 Hit Enter and then type […]
ataXous prime
ataXous prime is my take on the arcade classic Asteroids with a few extras. I wanted to make a shoot em up game for a while, so I started a mini project to work out how to use gamepads/controllers in Game Maker Studio. I wanted to do a twin stick shooter, so I had to […]
iDef on the Mac & App Stores
It gives me great pleasure to say that iDef is now available on the Mac App Store. iDef is also on the App Store for the iPhone & iPad.
Monty On The Run
Things are settling down with moving in to our new home and getting it how we want it. I have my office looking good and workable. It’s at that point where you are making fine adjustments here and there to make it just right, we are a fussy bunch us coders 😵 or it could […]
The move is on
We were thinking our house move wasn’t going to happen until next year sometime – probably early March or April – as we’d had no promising viewings for around 6 weeks. Then, almost out of the blue, an offer came in. We played the usual bartering game and came to a price that both parties […]
SF Mono Font
I have just migrated to Mac-OS High Sierra, so I’ve had the fun task of re-installing all my applications from scratch. Normally I would have opted for a full Time Machine restore and gone back to how things were but I would have missed out on some new, lovely things that I have found. One […]
I’m still here!
Most of my time at the moment has been dominated by life. My fiancée and I are planning to move so there has been a lot of upheaval and a change to my current priorities. As a result I’ve not had as much time as I would have liked to code recently. We have been […]
Game Over, Man!
Apologies for the quote from Aliens (warning link has mature language)! So, over the last few weeks, I have been working on rationalizing the data tables in the game. When I started this remake, I made a list of jobs that were (SMART) objectives. This approach comes from my project management roles in a previous […]
Pew
Hello World! In this post, I will be talking about the weapons. No shoot em up is complete without them and Paradroid is no exception. For a game back in the eighties, it was not often that you played a game which had multiple weapons – let alone different abilities, sprites, and sound effects. There […]
Console ++
This is just a quick update to show some of the other screens that I class as console screens; these are the game start, intro, and the pre-transfer game screens. These screens were done in a very similar way to the console screens from the previous post where a Game Maker surface is used to […]