After the last couple day grind I had to finish off the game, I went ahead and just relaxed and played it a bit. The initial build I thought of putting out was a bit too extreme. If I do come back to making some updates of sorts to the game, I may look into creating a hard mode in which these extreme settings are set:

Today was a fun experience of trying to figure out how to adjust the volume and brightness of the game through a click on the button in an options menu in the game. The volume adjustments was rather simple to figure out. …

Today I spent some time focusing on creating the wave system. As it’s been a while since I last worked on a wave system, I decided to try out a new way of doing it: So, how did I go about getting this script made up, well let’s take a…

Today I went over the basic enemy classes that the player will encounter in the game. What I have done with the enemy ships is created 5 different enemy types. With the use of TimeLine, I set the paths for these ships, along with when I will have them fire…

For the week, I’ll be going over a project I’m working on. This is a final project of sorts with GameDevHQ. For this project, i’ll be building a side shooter style game, that has some similarities to Gradius. Today, we will take a look at some of the features I’ve…

With games nowadays, we need to consider applying gameplay functionality for multiple different devices. Some people may enjoy it more with a mouse and keyboard feel, while others prefer using a controller. The task itself for implementing a controller option is really simple when it comes to the new input…

Let’s take a look at how we can go about changing the interaction controls from the legacy input to the new input system. Let’s first start with how we can adjust our code for interactions that are based off a single click of a key: As we can see from…

Let’s take a look at how we can build drone controls within this little test. To start, we will want to create input commands for the movement of the drone. With creating drone functionality, we need to consider the different ways a drone moves. As it isn’t as simple as…

Now that we have our player moving with the new input system, let’s take a look at how we can go about adjusting the controls for a forklift within the same test area. What we will have to do is not only change the movement controls of the forklift, but…