Greetings, Scirra people!:)
It's been a while, like a year or something.. Nice to be back:)
// Btw, glad to see tons of new pretty features in C2, great job C2 team! :D
Shortly about myself: I'm still a novice Construct user, still have some massive game ideas,
and still have way too much to learn to make a dream of creating-a-nice-big-game come true.
But this time I have just enough time to learn >:D Also, now i have a friend of mine interested in C2 and, so..
I hope we'll gonna motivate each other :P
It all started (and ended) with this wierd thing. Lots of ideas, but way over my capabilities.
Now it's stuck at a Prototype state until i'm good enough to finish it off.
Now speaking about this topic. This is gonna be a "bloggish-like" theme, where we post our training projects, studies and so on.
I'm totally sharing .capx and answering any questions. And I'd greatly appreciate all your feedback/advices and especially criticism ^_^
I'm always up for cooperation, team learning, volunteery work, well, that kind of stuff. Makes learning a bit more fun ;)
Oki doki, let's start?
26.11.2013 Exercise 1.
<font size="2">This "game" came out of nothing, while I was explaining the very basics of C2 to my friend :)
Then i've just finished it as i wanted. No indeep knowledge involved.
Well, not too bad to start with, a bit of experience is still better than nothing.</font>
Now say Hello to Flabby Joe. The Mood Killer Jelly.
Use Arrow keys to move, Spacebar to shoot and, you know.. try just to have fun :)
Reach level 6 to win.
It may seem too easy at first. Well, did that on purpose. Gets a bit harder over time. *hint hint*
A big flask to the left represents your Ink level. Once it's empty- your game is over.
No worries, just wait 5 sec and it will start again. Ink decreases over time, when you shoot and when you let a Smiley run away.
Posting capx : Messy capx.
<font size="2">//Updated both game and capx **</font>
4.12.2013 Exercise 2.
<font size="2">Tower Defence exercise. This one is all about making an OK mechanics/prototype, not a full playable game:) (might do it later)</font>
Here is a demo: TowerDefence study.
Main things to do:
[done] -Enemy movement along a path
[done] -Tower management ( building, selecting, upgrading )
[DONE] -Towers shooting mechanism
( aiming a proper enemy, damaging it, splash/slowing/poisoning etc.)
- Waves. Spawning enemies in a pre-defined order.
- Lesser things like money gain, win/lose conditions, simple menu and so on.
You can do is build/upgrade towers and spawn enemies manually pressing 1-5 keys.
Press [M] to get some extra money, [Shift + M] to set money to 0.
Click the tower to select it, [Esc] or right-click to cancel building/upgrading mode.
Double-click "Sell" button to sell a tower.
<font size="2">09.12.13 update</font>
At last! I've moved from deadpoint with Independent tower targeting/shooting/parsing stats an so on! :D
Battle system still needs tweaking, but that's more like balance stuff, working on formulaes rather than coding.. so, not a big deal :D
Making it work exactly how you mean it to do after a series of failures.. feels great! <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle">
Here is what i've tried to do : Event Based Turrets. That was an attempt to imitate turret behavior via events. Might be a good solution if it works properly..
but it does not:(
While you have one type of tower- everything is fine. But just when you add unique stats on towers.. it breaks.
Something is wrong with picking objects, and I didn't manage to find all the mistakes, so..
I've decided to play around a default turret behavior. And scored. Works nice and smooth :) Capx Independent Turrets
So, I consider first 3 points of my plan done:) And that is like 2/3 of the whole exercise:D
To-do list: Implementation of waves/levels, scoring system, menu, minor UI updates and final balancing!) Won't take long, i hope, most of the critical issues are fixed:D
17.12.2013 Exercise 3.
<font size="2">Alllright, just can't focus on one thing, here's a small RPG-ish thing</font>
Arrow keys to move, [Space] to interact :P
Nevermind it, it's terribly raw)
RPG exc