Gamedev

Trailer created with Blender by me Slime Hunter Slime Hunter is a 3D Top-Down Action RPG set in the fantasy world of Slimeria, where players hunt cute and dangerous slimes. Featuring comprehensive combat, spell, and inventory systems, diverse enemies, and a beautifully hand-built environment. Slimeria is a fantasy world where Slimes are the primary fauna alongside humans. For mysterious reasons, the slime population has grown significantly while more dangerous breeds wreaking havoc on local towns. You play a lone slime hunter, making their journey through Slimeria to learn about the state of the slime invasion and hopefully find the source. ...

What is Responsive Combat Whether it’s an attack, dodge, or block, responsive combat ensures each feels immediate and with appropriate feedback. Games like Hades got this nailed down to a tee. Attacks feel punchy with minimal delay and the player rarely feels like their fighting with the controls to get the game to do what they want. By providing precise control over the character’s abilities, responsive combat enhances the sense of agency and satisfaction, leading to more intense and rewarding gameplay experiences. ...

Darkstar Showdown Darkstar Showdown is a 3D turn-based strategy game developed in C++ as an individual submission for the Ubisoft NEXT 2024 competition in the programming category, where it won third place. The game was created in just 3 days using a provided graphics API, and it centered around this year’s theme of “firing projectiles.” C++ opengl ...

First semester finished! With all the final assignments, I completely forgot about this blog. Whoops! In any case, I wanted to do a little retrospective on our final pitch assignment. Final Pitch The idea of this assignment is simple, we create a game idea and we pitch to the class with a short, 5 minute, prerecorded presentation. The presentation should be informative and succinct and give the viewers a clear idea of the game. ...

I’m in the middle of working on my first mainline c++ project at school. We’re tasked with making a simple vertical spaceship shooter using c++ with SDL and some pre-made assets to form the game. At the moment, I’ve set up most of the classes I will need and have a simple ship that renders onto the screen. Naive Movement My first iteration of ship movement does have some forward thinking but allowing ship movement to continue by holding down keys. Using SDL polling, it’s easy to want to bind movement directly to each game iteration and triggering of the SDL keydown event. The problem is, standard keyboards when held have a delay on the first press before sending keyevents on every frame. What that looks like is the shape making a quick jerk, then pause, then start gliding across the screen. ...

As I was looking for games to play during my bus rides, I realized the convenience of being able to play phone games one-handed, or just simply in portrait mode. It’s a lot more comfortable to hold, especially in tighter environments like a bus. There’s lot’s of options for this but they mostly amount to puzzle games and such. Instead, I wanted something more actiony and rpg-like I could play in that format. Most action games are played in landscape as they tend to require more complex controls that aren’t condusive to the portrait play area. That’s fine and all but I just never was able to fully enjoy action games to that depth on a mobile format. Trying to fit complex inputs onto a touchscreen just isn’t that great of an experience so I tend to avoid playing them. Instead, what I want is an in-depth action, portrait-mode, mobile game with simple controls yet engaging gameplay. A big ask huh? ...

I’m on my second week and to my surprise, all my anxieties and insecurities subsided really quickly. It had been while since I’ve had a proper schedule or talk to people in person on a frequent basis but I’m glad at how smoothly I’ve been able to reacclimate and I’ve been feeling a lot happier as a result. Anyways so far, it’s just been a lot of intro talk and fundamentals of concepts I’ve already learned before. There are some teasers of new and interesting content up to come like the graphics pipeline but we’ve yet to wok directly with it. ...