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Category Archives: Development
Scrolling the title screen with GMS 2
Hands up all of you lot that remember the original Paradroid? Quite a few, I suspect, so you’d be the people remember the attention to detail that showed up in the title screen with the scrolling screens of text, use … Continue reading
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Paradroid ongoing
Development is going pretty well on Paradroid at present so, pretty soon, I’m going to be posting up some work in progress of both development images, and the game as it is at present, running.
Posted in Development, Game Studio 2, Paradroid
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Numpty
I found my missing code from yesterday. Turned out my back up to the QNap had copied the working directory after all. I shall now endeavor to make my crap prototype even crapper.
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Parallels and Gamemaker Studio 2
Tinkering with side-projects like Mancala has taken a back seat over the last week, despite my previous raving about wanting to get back into Blitzmax once again. Aaron and I discussed the relative merits of using something huge like Unity … Continue reading
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Putting it all on screen
With a mocked up game board in place it’s straight onto probably the hardest part of the project, which is handling all the objects needed for the game. There are 14 holes to keep track of on the board, and … Continue reading
Posted in Blitz, Development, Mancala
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Mancala & stepping back in time.
Today was possibly the most productive day I’ve had programming in possibly as much as a year. If any of it is of practical benefit, apart from the pursuit of knowledge and keeping the mind sharp, I’d very much doubt, … Continue reading
Posted in Blitz, C#, Development, Mancala
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Getting the basics right
The reason for developing our Paradroid project is primarily a learning exersise in how to “Unity”
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Project Paradroid
When creating Paradroid back in the early eighties, Andrew Braybrook created a masterpiece. A game consistently rated as one of the greatest games ever written on the C64, and also one of the most fun to play.
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Moving forward. New technology and terminated games.
I originally wrote this entry back in October but, as it wasn’t finished at the time, I didn’t get to actually put it online. As we’re up and running with something again – more on this next post – it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blitz, Development, Gravity Force, Infection, SpriteKit, Swift, Unity
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Infection
Welcome back to my ramblings, if you’re a previous reader, and an even bigger welcome if you’re new here via our website, or however else you have found me.