Category Archives: Development

Evahi’s development timeline

Posted on 14/04/2018 by Xerra

Over the last ten weeks I worked on Envahi to submit for a game coding competition on www.syntaxbomb.co.uk Most of the guys who submitted entries made a seperate post about their games in a showroom forum so as not to … Continue reading →

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Envahi is finished

Posted on 10/04/2018 by Xerra

After a marathon coding session over Saturday and Sunday I finally got the game finished. It’s not perfect but it’s still a great pick-up game considering I sacrificed a few things at the end to make the deadline. Most of … Continue reading →

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2 more days

Posted on 08/04/2018 by Xerra

Not going to write too much here as I am literally at the final crunch now with Envahi. It’s early Sunday morning and the game needs to be completed, hosted somewhere and will need final builds for both Mac and … Continue reading →

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Deadline day approaches

Posted on 31/03/2018 by Xerra

Didn’t realise that it’s been over 3 weeks since the last update on the blog. Luckily the game hasn’t been neglected as well. As the title says, deadline day is fast approaching now for Envahi to be completed and submitted … Continue reading →

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The final gameplay element

Posted on 05/03/2018 by Xerra

A dramatic title for this entry but probably a bit of an over-statement. Over the weekend I put a lot of time into Envahi again after my temporary switch back to Boulderdash to start work on the object system. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Boulderdash update

Posted on 27/02/2018 by Xerra

I spent a long weekend in Devon visiting Aaron over the last few days where we brain-stormed and decided to have a look at what could be done with the enemy AI in Boulderdash. At present Envahi is progressing steadily … Continue reading →

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Around week three now.

Posted on 19/02/2018 by Xerra

More background work has gone into Envahi so what I have right now is a stable (as in no crashing) version 0.09 of the game currently in place. Version numbers don’t mean much to me as I just use them … Continue reading →

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End of week one progress

Posted on 11/02/2018 by Xerra

Actually, it’s a bit further on than that as the competition started on January 30th and it’s now 10th of February. So, twelve days in. Just short of two weeeks. Around a fifth of the allowed time has already passed. … Continue reading →

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Envahi continues

Posted on 02/02/2018 by Xerra

Some nice Airwolf music goes in today as I got permission from the composer to use it for this game. It certainly sounds good when I play it on the hacked together title screen. Took the unusual step of putting … Continue reading →

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Envahi – Day one

Posted on 31/01/2018 by Xerra

Tuesday January 30th, 2018 Boulderdash – as close as it is to completion – is going on hold today as I’ve decided to enter a competition to code a small game based on either a TV or Movie theme. This … Continue reading →

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