Game Development So Far Hey everyone! So this week was a continuation of adding new equipment types and animations: New equipment – This week we added a floor mat as a piece of equipment. Doesn’t sound too exciting right? However the floor mat is going to be one of the first pieces of equipment a …
Game Development So Far Last week I finally got to move on from designing how to get clients to walk around like normal people and not act like muppets! So that enabled me to this week change up the pace a bit and get onto something different: Add new equipment types – A few months …
Game Development So Far So it’s been a couple of weeks since my last update and for those of you that keep up to date with the development of Gym Empire you’ll know that I’ve been struggling with incorporating collision avoidance for the characters. I’ve gone back and forth between using a manual system with …
Game Development So Far Straight off the bat, last week’s tasks were: Finish the fixes for collision avoidance Add more equipment Add animations for new equipment I’ve spent all of this week purely focused on the collision avoidance. Other Developments In my last post I alluded to getting closer to a solution that involved the …
Game Development So Far Sorry for the two week delay in updates. I was on holiday last week so was focusing on quality family time. Any spare moment I had I decided to use it for coding rather than blogging as there’s is still a lot of development to get through! So in my last …
Game Development So Far So after finally getting my laptop back in use (it was backing up the whole Gym Empire project and decided to take way longer than it needed to, only to then tell me it had failed. So long story short I zipped it up and used pCloud instead of Dropbox) I …
Over the past few months I’ve been getting loads of great feedback and ideas for content from the community, so I thought it would be useful for me to collect them all here under one post that I can update with new ones as they come in: Make a strategic decision in the game. Hard/expensive …
Game Development So Far Last week’s task list continued to focus on UI updates, specifically: Finalising the menu panel design – after a few different variations I finally settled on one that I think fits nicely with the style of the game. I was originally going to go for a slight transparency to the panels …
Game Development So Far Hi everyone update time! Last week’s progress went a little something like this Front end GUI – After a number of iterations and a few moments of despair I finally came up with a front end UI style I really think fits the game style. I’d originally considered a GUI that …
Game Development So Far For the last planning post two weeks ago I said I would finish off the clothing for the clients and then move onto the next task which was to be decided by Team Raven. I’m pleased to say I’ve completed this iteration for the clothing of the clients and I’m really …
