Games W.I.P Thread

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great to see this thread up. Now I can retire my jams thread. I much prefer this way of handling it

Currently working on a fighting game engine from scratch. I have this week off from work where I plan to put a couple hours in each day. I'll post some pics when I have something going.

Currently I just finished the basic rendering code and gui implementation for debug stuff. Also finished up the first phase of the virtual input system (mapping input devices to a virtual controller). That has taken the longest so far.

Right now I'm starting up on the state logic and it's been a little tough. I've spent about 5-6 hours on paper and have kind of been avoiding programming it because I'm a little fearful of implementing it. I think it's gonna be a series of failures before I get something decent working. I'm trying to focus on studying the intricacies of Street Fighter to try and get some theoretical knowledge of what to do.

dude, that's awesome. we made a prototype for a very similar game ages ago:

http://www.magerage.de

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Yeah I like it too! Don't retire it entirely though, you should like add the games there in a list. Or maybe I can do that here? Just make a list of Games of Mapcore, the name of the game and the creator?

Damn, that's a pretty big undertaking, looking forward to see some screens coming up! Good on you doing all that paperwork, I think it could save (programmer) lives if people just sat down and did that before starting. Maybe programmers do that all the time, they don't tell me, I just assume they don't. Seems like you're going to go really deep on the gameplay mechanics too, I'm quite sure someone wrote a theorycraft breakdown on Street Fighter if you do some googling, so you don't need to break it down all yourself. Unless you want too that is.

I haven't heard the term theorycraft before. Interesting I'll see if I can find anything.

Also realistically I don't really write stuff down that much. Usually only when it's some sort of big state machine is when I have to really plan something out on paper.

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I showed your videos to a mate and he said: "I'd already buy it!"

Man the amount of work needed to get a basic fighting game up and running is staggering compared to other types of games I've worked on. I spent a good portion of the day today setting up game data and the character state machines.

I've just finished setting up the first schema for defining a character state definition. Which is basically a animation that drives gameplay. It has segments (which are like frames but they can exist for more than a frame so I called them segments to avoid confusion). Each segment has sprite animation data, hitbox data and attack hitbox data. I'm sure more data will be needed as I work on this.

The data definition is done in Json. Since it's a fighting game and it needs to be really tweakable quickly so I took a lot of data definition out of code. Ideally you'll be able to edit the file while the game is going and have it update without needing to restart the game when you save the file.

Here's an example state/animation definition (tried to use the code paste but that didn't paste very nice) :

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They showed my game in the latest Unreal Engine broadcast : D (around 7:30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=…JHX1yQlgI#t=453

Here is a video showing some stuff I added this week

Wtf is wrong with you! i want to play this with my mates

More powerups

Not much new to show lately, mainly been working on HUD logic and other boring stuff. But started to add one new powerup! placeholder asset etc..zzz

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please please please create an online multiplayer mode!

That should work already, in theory I don't have access to the router where I live so I can open the ports needed for hosting a server online, so I've only tested it locally with some people at work. But, when the time is ready, I'm sure someone here could help me do some hosting =)

I would play that on LAN so hard with friends!

This is going to be awesome!

Here's a little Puzzle Game I'm working on:

It got a little bit put on hold during the Whitebox Challenge but now I'm excited to take it up again. Made with unity and C# with the goal to become a better scripter. No built in physics are used so movement, collisions and gravity is all coded.

The goal is to get all four cubes to the goal. It's controlled by holding down the corresponding button to the cubes color. Also possible to move multiple cubes at the same time.

It's preferably controlled with a gamepad, but keyboard is also possible. I put a simple 3D mesh of a controller on the screen so it would be simpler to understand how the game worked.

The levels shown might be a bit advanced, I'll make some simpler starter levels later.

Please tell me what you think.

That looks pretty cool!

How did you move the two blue cubes in opposite directions though (second level)?