Category Archives: Game Dev

Progress Update

Posted on September 26, 2008 by mdiehr

Got Game Maker 7 installed. Its event system is miles ahead of what MMF had, though it took a couple tries to get things working the way I wanted to. Here’s what I have so far: Cars that can move … Continue reading →

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Future Traffic Programmer, Pt. 2

Posted on September 25, 2008 by mdiehr

This is a follow up on the earlier post about Future Traffic Programmer, which has the unfortunate acronym ‘FTP’. I need to refine my design, since there are still a couple areas that are ambiguous. Namely, how the game processes … Continue reading →

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Future Traffic Programmer

Posted on September 24, 2008 by mdiehr

Here’s an idea for a game I’ve been working on for a while now. It’s the distant future of highway traffic control. Your job as a traffic programmer is to make sure that all of the autodriver cars make it … Continue reading →

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Game Explorer

Posted on September 9, 2008 by mdiehr

In chess, there are huge depositories of games past, which can be explored using powerful tool such as chess.com’s Game Explorer. Using this web program you can play moves and see what the winning percentages are for each move that … Continue reading →

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TOB – First Prototype

Posted on February 5, 2008 by mdiehr

Here’s some stuff I gotta do. Visual Studio set up Sprite loading Sprite animation Animation description format (txt) Animation loading Level displaying (tiles) Tile description format (txt) Level description format (txt) Level loading Level editor (basic) Controller movement Collide with … Continue reading →

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Delays

Posted on January 8, 2008 by mdiehr

I found a copy of Visual Studio 2003 on my desktop, which might help me to actually get some work done. However, I should probably buy the damned program already and install it on my laptop, to facilitate development. Actual … Continue reading →

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Design Documents

Posted on September 4, 2007 by mdiehr

I spent some time today working on a design document, the fruits of which you can see here: Grocery Panic.doc Excerpt: The X Don’t put the cans on top of the eggs. Summary Foodstuffs are falling into a paper bag … Continue reading →

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Grocery Panic Development, Pt. 1

Posted on September 3, 2007 by mdiehr

Panic! Just starting work on a recent idea: Don’t put the cans on top of the bread. That’s the gameplay behind this simple tetris-clone where you pack groceries into a paper bag. Each item has a weight, strength, and shape … Continue reading →

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