Friday, May 31, 2013

The last thing that I needed to do was level design. Honestly, this takes the longest for me, the reason being is that I am just very slow at it. The main thing in level design is get from point A to point B. Then after you do this you need to add obstacles that make it harder for the player to get to point B. The obstacles can be anywhere from spikes to enemies that follow you around the level. In my game I have two different obstacles. The first is spikes the second one is cannons that will look and shoot at you.
My finished game is right here.


Now that I have told you about coding, we can get back to the game that I am working on.

After I made it so that the player could move around I made it so he could jump and climb walls.

This was done by shooting a sensor called a ray cast. A ray cast senses when it hits something or when an object is close from where the ray cast is being shot from.

So I programmed it so that if the ray cast is hitting a wall while the space bar is pressed down, then the player will climb(move up) the wall. This makes it so the player can get to where he needs to be.
Last time I talked a bit about code, but I never really explained what the code does. Well, I have decided that we will do that today. Coding is the way people can communicate with computers. With it you can do things with a computer. Have you ever thought about big corporations like Microsoft and Apple. It turns out that they have thousands of people working for them doing things with code. Don't get me wrong; they do have graphic designers and artists but the majority of their time is at a computer. Even the artists are coding. Another way to think about it is that those artists are using programs that were coded to make their art.

I have been working on this game for a long time. You would be surprised how much work I have done on it. First, I had to get the character just to move around. I finally was able to do that after a lot of learning errors. An error in code is just how it sounds. If you get a word misspelled, or if something just does not work in the script it just will not read it and you have to spend time finding out what you did wrong. (It can be from a few minutes to a few hours. It can really be tiresome).

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Update #1

I am a teenager that likes to work on my computer in my spare time. Now before you say anything, I don't mean video games. I mean making video games. Ever since I was little I liked to creat things with my hands now that I am a bit older I have found a new hobby, making video games.

First, I am going to talk a little bit about my game that I am making. Little Green Alien is about a alien that was shot from the sky and landed on the earth. He ends up getting captured by the government and is tested by some scientists. These tests are little obstacle courses that the scientists set up. 

Here is an example of one of those obstacle courses. I hope you like it.
 From now on every week I will be posting my updates on this blog. Depending if I have any time. If you come here I hope you enjoy and I also hope that you come back next Friday for hopefully more updates.