This past weekend was quite an interesting one. In the past week of madness at work I managed to get together the arrangements to take part in this very fun jam. It’s a move that might have been long overdue, but my cousin and I decided to team up on this one. Theme We woke up on Saturday morning looking at the theme: One Room. I was not sure how to approach the theme, but after a little thought I was considering an escape the room game using destructible furniture. ...

I thought I’d write this post while I’m still fresh with some experience from GitHub Game Off 2016, Ludum Dare 37 and the Entelect Jam #2. I’ve had some interesting approaches to solving each of the unique problems and also had some help with some of the solutions, but I’m just going to explore some of the first ideas that came up. One thing to note though is that this article is not so much the how to solve a problem using DDD, but rather to show some of the challenges with having to interact with a domain in a minimalistic enough way as to ensure that you don’t end up bleeding implementation details across boundaries. ...

So I’ve been absent for too long and I have mostly lied about all that I was planning to do in previous posts. That said it’s time that I start writing about stuff again. Quite a bit has come and gone in the past 2+ months since I last wrote something so I thought I’d put together a list of planned topics I’ll be writing about in the near future. ...

So I’ve been quite absent the past few days and I thought to just write this last post as an update on the plans. Well to be really honest there are no more plans. I had to deal with some personal issues so I fell so behind schedule that I can’t make up for lost time. Last Chance This does not mean I won’t be submitting anything. I’ll finish up and get an exe done and submitted on the last day of the jam. ...

Tomorrow will be our Year End Function so I’ll likely not be doing anything then. I’ve also not been able to do anything today as life got in the way a bit. Hoping to get back into the swing of things on Saturday for the final stretch. That’s it for today!

Today I managed to spend quite a bit of time on my game. As seen in the screenshot below I’ve added shoot functionality to the turret and also started looking at making a nice tiled background. Unfortunately the current lasers shot out do no damage, but I’ll have to clean up the code first to make working with it a bit easier. I’m quite happy with how things are looking now, but I’ve still got a bit of a way to go. ...

So I managed to completely wreck my project today. For some reason the sudden inclusion of UnityEngine.dll as part of my domain output is causing Unity to have a freak-out and not want to run my game. As I’m writing this I’m thinking of ways to get past this, but I’ve had no success yet. On the plus side I changed the Pixels Per Unit setting on my spritesheet import to a number that’s two to the power of x. ...

So today was a bit of a write off. I merely sat and thought about stuff (while writing them down of course) which led me to not really doing anything. I did however decide on not going crazy on the different turrets in the game and just sticking with what I know I can implement in time. This did lead me onto another thought. Motivation I’m not completely writing off the day as I’ve realized a big driving factor the past week has been motivation (or lack thereof). ...

So I’ve realized I’ve wasted so much time on fiddly bits without a proper vision of what I want to build. I did however make some progress towards a vision for the game. I’m opting for a very basic game right now with “enemies” or rather turret structures to fight along the way while exploring. The end goal would be to find the mystery base and destroy it, allowing one to proceed to a bigger cluster of asteroids with more turrets. ...

Not the day I was hoping for, but I did make some progress even if it was mostly fiddling around with values to see how much my gravity calculation sucks. I actually upped the meteor count to 10 000! Everything was still running as smooth as it could! I did notice however that starting up my game takes a MASSIVE knock on speed if there area in which you wish to spawn them is a bit small. ...