My Game Programming Adventures including projects and tutorials
I did some work on the next Space Raptor tutorial today. It covers adding in a shield for the player and a power up that gives the player a three way shot. It also adds a frames per second counter so you can gauge how well your game is performing. I’d recommend baselining it on […]
I’ve made it about three quarters of the way through the next Eyes of the Dragon tutorial. As I’ve mentioned previously this tutorial focuses on creating a level editor for the game. I hope to wrap it up over the next few days. I’ve been busy with my app and it takes a lot of […]
I have started work on tutorial 6 in the Eyes of the Dragon tutorial series. This tutorial is about creating the editor for building worlds. It is unfortunately a Windows project instead of a cross platform solution because I use Win Forms. It is much easier to use the existing controls than trying to recreate […]
Thanksgiving was nice, but smaller. There were half as many people as normal thanks to COVID-19. We did have the other half join virtually over zoom and my sister delivered their turkey dinners before hand. Yesterday was an off day. I just couldn’t focus on anything. I puttered on my editor for Silver Prophet and […]
So, the drive in the laptop I spent the past few days working on died. I didn’t lose much but I lost some tutorial work. Fortunately I have this laptop and all of my source code was stored on GitHub so the work that I’ve done is safe. Still, it sucks and I’ll have to […]
Today I worked on Silver Prophet’s battle engine. It’s coming along nicely. I need to add attack animations yet but either side of the field can win or lose the battle. When a character is damaged the amount floats from the top of their head and fades to transparent. When they receive enough damage they […]
So, I’m working on Silver Prophet as my main project. It is going relatively well. I make progress every day and rarely get stuck for long. Right now the big problem is assets. I’m not a pixel artist by any means. I can do some basic graphic design but I don’t have an aesthetic eye. […]
I am now on Patreon for building Silver Prophet. I would appreciate your support in developing my game.https://www.patreon.com/synammon
I have just uploaded tutorial number 25 in the Shadow Monsters tutorial series that uses MonoGame. This tutorial covers how to capture shadow monsters. You can find the tutorial on the MonoGame tutorials page of the web site or you can use this direct link.
I’ve been working on tutorial 25 in the Shadow Monsters MonoGame tutorial series. I’m about two thirds through it. I will definitely finish it up tomorrow if not later today. As I’ve mentioned this tutorial covers healing shadow monsters and capturing new shadow monsters from random battles. I’m in the process of creating a Patreon […]