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Screenshot Saturday: Web Stuff

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This week I took a short break from video game coding to crank out some web tools for a table top RPG that I play with some local friends. The screenshot above is part of a combat manager application that I wrote in php. It's main purpose is to manage all of the NPCs in a fight so that the game master doesn't have to keep flipping through a binder full of different pages of enemies to keep track of what's going on during the battle. It should make our games go along a lot quicker, although some people really like to have physical dice make all the decisions. When you have a battle involving 15+ characters though, dice rolling can get tedious pretty rapidly.

Now back to game development!
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Posted February 23rd 2013 3:25 PM (General)
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Doodle Post

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Posted February 21st 2013 3:07 PM (Doodle)
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Colliding with Slopes?!

Colliding with Slopes?!
In my last blog post I talked a little bit about how I've implemented slopes in my latest project, but I only talked about how I was actually importing them from Ogmo Editor into Flashpunk and not about how I'm actually using them for platforming. In this post I'll attempt to explain how I actually use slopes in my movement system, which means my platformer characters can walk up and down them without any problems.

The first thing to keep in mind is that all of my slope code only really works with slopes that increase or decrease by 1 pixel. I could rework some of it to make it work with a step of any size that the programmer could define, but for now 1 step is all I really need.

Pixel Sweepin'


The first thing to know is how I actually go about moving my platformer characters, and other moving objects around my game world. I use a method that I refer to as pixel sweeping. Basically whenever an object moves in my games, I move it one pixel at a time and check for collisions at each step! This might sound a little crazy to some folk, but this is the most reliable way I've been able to do stuff like platforming and other moving objects and still collide with even the tiniest pixel of a floor or wall. I've been using this technique since the very beginning of Bonesaw: The Game.
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Posted February 20th 2013 10:49 AM (Tutorials)
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Dev Log: Slopes and Slopes

Dev Log: Slopes and Slopes
Still working on the re-make of my Global Game Jam game! The most recent development I can talk about is this:

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Look at those beautiful SLOPES! I haven't actually done any platforming with slopes since all the way back in 2009 when I first made Jottobots (and before that, Verge.) This is my first time doing slopes of any sort in Flashpunk. There were a couple of hurdles to get over to get them working smoothly though.
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Posted February 18th 2013 12:42 PM (Games)
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Doodle Post

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Posted February 15th 2013 10:36 AM (Doodle)
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Game Making Tools

Game Making Tools
Since I posted the time lapse video of me making a game for Global Game Jam 2013, I got a couple of questions regarding the exact tools I'm using for my game making needs. This is a pretty long post, so I'm going to put it all behind the jump tag. If you want to know my secrets, then click read more!
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Posted February 13th 2013 11:00 AM (Tools)
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