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…
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Tag: Graphics
Ideas, experiments, and progress
from behind the scenes.
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…
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Minimap
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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Going Down
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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Paradroid Graphics, Part 2
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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