Here’s a little bit of video from the final build, since so many seem to not be able to run it. I tried running this on the various machines I have at my disposal, and they all ran it fine. So i’ll chalk the crashes up to people missing .NET/XNA binaries. Nothing new there

Video, lookie!

Got around to adding some gameplay in there, so I think it’s alright to call it a game now

POST-FINAL EDIT:

I understand some are having difficulties understanding how to play it, so here’s a few key tips:

• You have 3 unique battle pieces at your disposal; namely Melee (sword), Ranged (arrow) and Defend (shield)
• In certain levels you have a barracks at your disposal. It can produce a piece with X units every turn.
• You need to wipe out every enemy piece before it kills yours off, or reaches the opposite end.
• The wall (red pieces) only has one action (move forward), and cant defend itself.
• The damage a piece does is represented by the number seen below its icon in the turn-queue. (except the wall, which shows the total units the wall has split over its pieces)
• Some pieces does extra damage in certain situations (e.g. when a defender retaliates)

Video!

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This morning I realized that I had not really thought the gameplay through before jumping into the tech implementations, and as a result of that the game is now in a state where im not sure that I can save it. I’ll keep going today though, and hopefully i’ll get struck by some ideas that’ll help the game turning out as an actual game!

Anyways, here’s another progress shot:

Some additions since last night:

• Queue displaying whos turn it is
• Simple text fade-animation whenever a piece loses or gains units
• New icons for some of the pieces

So, as i’ll be wrapping up for the day I thought i’d share a progress screenshot, enjoy:

Still not sure whether or not this will be any good. My goal is that it becomes a turn-based strategy-ish thing where you need to kill off the enemies (the wall of red pieces) before they wipe you out. The AI is pretty much just a Column++ each time it’s the enemys turn, so that’s one thing fully implemented at least!

So, like always, I think up a way too ambitious game mechanic and fail to realize it before its too late

Anyways, the above shot shows my progress so far. Every graphic is placeholder, and basically all there is to the game at the moment is controlling the arms of an undersea-monster. I spent pretty much the entire first day just tweaking the physics parameters, and im still not satisfied

Aw man, i’ve just been lacking inspiration this entire weekend, and it does not seem to get any better. So i’m going to cut my losses and call it quits now. I really hate doing that, but I just can’t see it happen this time.

I did make a little thing, though. It has zero gameplay, but it does have a bunch of pretty snowflakes trickling down the screen. Hopefully i’ll be more into it for the next mini!

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Requires the usual bad guys:

XNA FX3 and

.NET 3.5

Oh boy, this one was rough.. THE TOWER?! I think I started out with that in mind, but I guess I kinda lost touch with the theme somewhere a long the way. Although I do keep the sense of heights (with the skyscrapers/roof and such).

Anyway, after a couple of huge coding sessions, here’s what I finally have to show for it:

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MUY IMPORTANTE:

You need all kinds of sweet stuff to run this bad boy:

• updated directx
• .net 3
• shadermodel 1.1 (and hw support for scaled pointsprites, i think)

So, yeah.. I hope there’s at least one windows dude out there

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EDIT:
It would appear that it might crash if you don’t have any XNA redist installed. The problem lies with the non-opensource physics library that I chose to use; it tries to find the required xna dll’s through whatever-its-called-place where redist dll’s are placed, instead of using the dll’s i shipped locally with the exe. So, only solution is to install one of the XNA redists. What a mess.

More visuals:

More progress shots! Wee!

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Here’s what I have to show so far. It’s supposed to take place on a rooftop where you direct the wind in ways that will make it blow crates over the edge.. and quite possibly end up killing people and the occasional owl at the bottom of the tower.

Finally done, here it is!

Do not be afraid to shake it up, shake it up, sha..

The entry can be downloaded from here:

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Requirements:

.NET 3/3.5
XNA 2.0

up2date DirectX dll’s

Here’s some of the latest models:

In other news, I suck at composing music so I have made sure that people can turn it off in my game.

But here’s my main-menu:

The colored text at the top is bouncing up and down, and the model below is rotating to give a preview of the level.

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ArcBall rotation still isn’t working, and i’ve basically given up on trying to fix it. Below you can see what i’ve spent my morning doing.

• Gradient background
• Fonts
• Better shading for the main model
• Better shading for dirt
• Improved model for dirt specks

Had some troubles with math earlier, but that should be fixed now. Here’s a shot of a more complex model in action, where some blobs have been shaken off to the left.

There’s still one major issue with the ArcBall implementation (to rotate the model intuitively) which really needs to work before it’s playable.

Not much to show, but I guess that fits the theme perfectly. The reason is that I have spent all my time on coming up with an idea that
I didn’t hate.

What you’re seeing here is a 3d model infested with nasty stuff. It’s your job to shake these things off.

To abide by the rules I hereby deliver a link to my work-in-progress library; all it really does is provide a way of binding game behaviors to “entities”, and getting a hold of them again. Oh, and it’s written for .NET3.

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This theme was horrible to think up ideas for, I mean, games usually rely on the player expecting what happens. However, I did write a small platformer with just one level which tries to incorporate this idea of having something unexpected happen, so that the player then has to think up a way around.

I’m not sure i’ll continue working on it, as i’m not terribly excited about the game idea. Meh.

It requires .NET2.0, XNA 2.0, shader 1.1 and updated DirectX dll’s ( )

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The outcome of these 48 hours is a reasonably decent game, that just barely stays within the theme. Taking that aside, I do think it’s good fun to play and that’s all that matters.

Hopefully at least a few people will be able to try it out, but since there is no single-player component it gets a little bit dull playing by yourself

The entry can downloaded from here:

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Added support for various control schemes, and prettied up the display:

A couple sounds are in also! Thanks DrPetter! (sfxr)

A few things have been implemented since last entry; most notably the springy goals. Well, only the back of the goals actually. They add nothing gameplay-wise, but they’re kinda fun to watch when a ball is hammered into them. Barrier advertisement textures have also been made, i’m not crazy about them but they’ll do for now.

What I really need to get started on are the controls. The gamepad controls are perfect, but the majority of people here does not have such a peripheral so keyboard/mouse support is essential. Keyboard is currently supported, but man, it feels quite crappy. I think pure mouse control would be better.

Since I woke up i’ve mostly been making graphical improvements, e.g. colored players, textured field barriers.. But I also implemented a better camera, so every moving thing should now be visible at all (most) times.

Later I will try to model a better looking goal, and possibly add a menu.