Pyramid Defense Flash Demo
Here's a flash demo that makes an isometric "pyramid":
Well, it's really only a quarter of a pyramid, and they did a bad job making it even. Also, there are snakes everywhere.
You can press "space" to randomize what shows up!
Man, Flixel is easy to use.
ExSphere
ExSphere Main PageExSphere is a game I made for a project in Professor Laird's Game Development course at the University of Michigan.
It took a total of three weeks, including all programming, art, and sound.
The goal of the game is to destroy all of the blocks on each level. This includes everything except
the indestructible walls, skulls, and power ups.
Doubloons!
Doubloons! Main Page - Download
Doubloons! is a game where you are a pirate captain, commanding your ship and crew to take over and plunder enemy ships. At your disposal are cannons, bilge pumps, rowboats, grappling hooks, gangplanks, and a load of angry pirates.
Your goal is to attack your opponent's ship, steal their gold, sink it, and sail off into the sunset (in that order). You control the pirates through orders you give them, and then the pirates will complete the task to the best of their abilities. Combat effectiveness may change during battle due to grapeshot, inability to swim, and injury from swords.
The controls are listed above each ship on the play screen, start with Vs. Mode so that your opponent doesn't do anything. You control the pirates by giving them orders.
For example you hit the "man the cannons" button and the game will pick an idle/defending pirate and make him load the cannons. Later, you can hit the "decrement cannon loaders" button and the game will remove one of your cannoneers.
The game ends when a player has no pirates left and one of the ships has sunk (Not necessarily that player's ship!), or when one of the ships escapes from the other by sailing off the edge of the screen, or when you press ESC. After this, each player is scored by gold possessed, pirates killed, damage dealt, and whether their ship survives or not.
Proof of Concept
Here's an awesome file you should check out.
futrapro.zip proof of concept (Windows EXE)
Controls:
- Mouse + left click to drag pieces around.
- Esc to quit.
- Delete when selecting a cone to delete it.
FuTraPro Progress
Got some things working. Cars come out of the green triangles at regular times, and follow the signs to switch lanes, accelerate, and brake. Drag & drop also works on all of the objects.
Here's a screenshot.
TOB – First Prototype
Here's some stuff I gotta do.
Visual Studio set upSprite loadingSprite 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 level tiles
- Run
- Jump
The tile description format will have a list of the tiles and their component .png files, which will then be referenced in the level description format so that it can be enumerated simply.
The format might look like so (tiles with multiple frames are for a fancy-tile format that I made up):
TileName Frames "path.png"
BrickTiles 9 "tiles/bricks-9-3-3.png"
SmallPlant 1 "tiles/smallplant.png"
The level might look like this:
Tiles "tiles/tiles.txt"
. Background
b BrickTiles
p SmallPlant
EndTiles
Level 30 20
...............
....p.....p...
...bbbbbbb
EndLevel
etc
The animation format will probably look something like this:
Idle frames 0 0 loop 0 // Loops infinite times
Walk frames 10 19 loop 0 // Loops infinite times
Stun frames 20 24 loop 1 // Runs once then stops
Stand frames 25 29 loop 1 // Runs once then stops
The level editor will also need a sort of collision hull editor and way to edit the non-architecture layers, including gameplay cues and monster drops, and so on.
Visual Studio Setup
The Platform SDK is always useful to have.
And here is the DXFramework.
Java Ass-Kicking
I think I'm going to try to develop Grocery Panic on a different platform, since Java for cell phones is giving me a lot of trouble. C# or C++ it is. I'm going to do some research and prototyping tomorrow, as long as Rock Band doesn't lure me away.