Paradroid: a new look inside the ship
A look at the native Swift project, blueprint terminals, droid artwork, and the practical work behind them.
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Tag: Paradroid
Ideas, experiments, and progress
from behind the scenes.
Paradroid 202x: welcome aboard
A proper front door for the Swift remake: mission instructions, lifetime statistics, credits, and a high scores board, with a compact menu shaped by a few visual experiments.
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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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