Month: September 2020

I’ve been working on my Shadow Monsters project. I added in the ability to bind shadow monsters similar to capturing pokemon in Pokemon. It is working okay. I will probably change the animation but it works for now. Here is a short video of the battle engine with the binding process.

I have just uploaded tutorial 23 in the Shadow Monsters series to the site. This tutorial adds in a few more game states including a loading state. You can find the tutorial on the MonoGame tutorials page of the site or you can use this direct link.

 The focus for day was content creation for my Shadow Monsters. I did a lot of work on my first level creating the interior for several houses, created several sprites and map work. I also worked some on the next tutorial in the Shadow Monsters series. I got most of the code done and some …

 Today was a good day for my Shadow Monsters project. I made some good progress on adding polish to the game. I have almost all of the essential areas of game play working. There are a few areas that I still need to work on. They revolve around battling other characters and some display issues …

 As well as working on my Eyes Of The Dragon tutorial I worked on my Shadow Monsters game. I worked on capturing random shadow monsters. I’m pretty happy with the results. Developing the game is getting less and less about programming and more and more about content creation. The editors are all in good shape …

 A day later than I planned but I just uploaded tutorial five of my MonoGame tutorial series Eyes of the Dragon to my Google drive. This tutorial adds in a sprite for the player to control and does some work on the role playing system. I’m using a variant of the SPECIAL system for the …

 I did some work on tutorial five in Eyes of the Dragon today. I got a good start on it, about half way through I’d say. I have the code ready to go for the rest of it but I need to do the writing. I should have it up on the blog tomorrow. The …

 I took the day to work on my home brews rather than tutorials. I put up a video of my demo of my version of Shadow Monsters as well as the demo version. You can find the details on the My Project page of the blog, I linked to the artists that I used from …

 I have published tutorial 22 in the MonoGame tutorial series Shadow Monsters to my Google Drive. This tutorial covers adding in a character generator to the game so the player can choose their character. You can find the link to the tutorial on my MonoGame Tutorials page. You can also open the PDF using this …

 I’ve been working on tutorial 22 in the shadow monsters series. I’m about half way done with it. This one covers creating a text box and a character generator. I will also fix a problem with resizing content based on screen resolution. I was doing integer division instead of floating point division when calculating scales. …