
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.…
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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.…
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In my previous post, I talked about the Minimap screen and the Lifts screen which are both parts of the console display within the game. The console screen also has a…
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This blog will be all about the Console areas of Paradroid, which were accessed within the main game as a kind of sub-computer for information about what you were dealing…
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With the doors all working, as I explained in the previous post, the next logical step was giving the player the ability to move around the whole of the dreadnaughts…
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The next major hurdle with Paradroid was implementing one of the most iconic parts of the game which was the opening and closing of the deck doors using simulated proximity…
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Walls Currently, we have all the decks of the dreadnaught in place along with the player droid we can move around but there’s nothing stopping the player from going anywhere…
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So now we have the tilesets and we have our droid, its time to put it all together. The major hurdle is putting all the decks into a room within…
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Once all the frames of the droid were put into Game Maker it was very simple to get the droid set up and animating. To do this I used 2 objects…
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Getting the droid graphics into the project was very much a repeat of process used to get the tileset images from my previous two posts. Taking screen shots until I…
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In my last post, I discussed how I got to the TileSet that I used in Waca Waca. In this post, I am going to talk about where I went from…
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