Category Archives: Coding

Microsoft Loves #1GAM

Posted on March 11, 2013 by McFunkypants

So I’ve got some awesome news about OneGameAMonth. Let this be a lesson in the [...] Continue reading →

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Run for Elise – html5 platformer

Posted on February 28, 2013 by McFunkypants

Run for Elise is an HTML5 platformer prototype more than it is a polished game. [...] Continue reading →

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Run for Elise – html5 platformer

Posted on February 28, 2013 by McFunkypants

Run for Elise is an HTML5 platformer prototype more than it is a polished game. [...] Continue reading →

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One Game A Month

Posted on December 31, 2012 by McFunkypants

OneGameAMonth is now live! With over 4000 gamedevs taking part, I’m very proud to say [...] Continue reading →

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One Game A Month

Posted on December 31, 2012 by McFunkypants

OneGameAMonth is now live! With over 4000 gamedevs taking part, I’m very proud to say [...] Continue reading →

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Pathos – a puzzle strategy game

Posted on December 16, 2012 by McFunkypants

This weekend was Ludum Dare 25, a 48-hour game jam. The theme was “you are [...] Continue reading →

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12 games in 12 months

Posted on December 8, 2012 by McFunkypants

My new year’s resolution this year was a game development challenge. To make 12 games [...] Continue reading →

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Mars Orbital – space platformer

Posted on October 19, 2012 by McFunkypants

Each year, Ludum Dare issues a month-long challenge to game developers: make a game and [...] Continue reading →

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Video: October Challenge

Posted on October 1, 2012 by McFunkypants

Welcome to the LUDUM DARE OCTOBER CHALLENGE! Your quest: Finish a game… bring it to [...] Continue reading →

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Super Snowball Fight FPS

Posted on June 19, 2012 by McFunkypants

Written in C++ using SDL (and openGL), Super Snowball Fight is a first-person-shooter (FPS) game [...] Continue reading →

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Kaizen running on Android using Stage3D

Posted on May 25, 2012 by McFunkypants

Kaizen is a 2d shoot-em-up inspired by arcade shooter games like R-Type. This is a [...] Continue reading →

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I was going to go to bed, but I still had the project open so I made some Quick Changes: What I did: – Added a direction circle, divided by the ranges. The purple slice is the currently seleced range. – Zoomed the sprite sheet and simulated the selection box for the frame. – Added [...]
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Still Alive

Posted on March 29, 2012 by SteelGolem

It’s been two and a half weeks since my last post, and I spent alot of that time recovering from a flu I caught. While that stopped me in my tracks, it also gave me time to think about what I had been working on and what I want to accomplish right now. The main [...]
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Nothing new to show

Posted on March 12, 2012 by SteelGolem

I’ve been plugging at back-end code a bit, every other day, for the last little while. I haven’t managed to get rid of this cold/flu virus so it makes it hard to do anything for a decent amount of time. Right now I’ve taken another step back and I’m rebuilding my rebuild. I could post [...]
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Almost done Item Creation

Posted on March 1, 2012 by SteelGolem

I shot my screen: What you see above is my glorious Item Creation Interface, as described in the previous post. Well, almost. I said I was going to make failing recipes show up in red, but the way I have the string output stuff set up, it took less time for me to just write [...]
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Inventory Interface Complete

Posted on March 1, 2012 by SteelGolem

I’m on Candid Camera?!: Here I’ve dropped a bunch of items from inventory, moved some items into the chest, and split a stack of (99) into three. You can drop items from the other inventory too, in the case that it’s faster to steal that way. You actually need to move the cursor to an [...] Continue reading →

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