Tag Archives: games

ExSphere

Posted on April 13, 2009 by mdiehr

ExSphere is a game I made for a project in Professor Laird’s Game Development course at the University of Michigan. Continue reading →

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Doubloons!

Posted on April 13, 2009 by mdiehr

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. Continue reading →

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Proof of Concept

Posted on October 3, 2008 by mdiehr

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.

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FuTraPro Progress

Posted on September 29, 2008 by mdiehr

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.

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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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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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