Comments on: game development http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2007/08/game-development/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:54:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Matt http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2007/08/game-development/comment-page-1/#comment-93302 Matt Mon, 12 May 2008 16:51:39 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2007/08/game-development/#comment-93302 I have tried making a game before, and I found that sprite art and tiledrawing to be the most difficult part. I know almost nothing about coding. Currently I'm twiddling with an application called "Gamemaker." The advanced functions were on 20$, and it comes with events that you can custom code, and palletes for tile and sprite out, and backgrounds and the like. You could take a look. I made a rather amatuer animation of a guy with a cloak reaching to draw his sword. I used too many frames for animation, and the process is pains-takingly methodical. Who I was making it with, I was doing storyline, character sprite drawing and animation, and composition, while my friend was doing coding and tiledrawing. A week or two in and he scrapped the project and we started brainstorming again, but after that point, I lost interest, and now fiddle occasionally to see if I can ever make another sprite to match the horrible one I drew at first. Still hasn't happened. So good luck to her in making a video game. I want to be a video game music composer, so I admire the effort. Depending on the scale of the game, she could be looking at a year or two+ in development with a small crew of developers. I have tried making a game before, and I found that sprite art and tiledrawing to be the most difficult part. I know almost nothing about coding.

Currently I’m twiddling with an application called “Gamemaker.” The advanced functions were on 20$, and it comes with events that you can custom code, and palletes for tile and sprite out, and backgrounds and the like. You could take a look. I made a rather amatuer animation of a guy with a cloak reaching to draw his sword. I used too many frames for animation, and the process is pains-takingly methodical. Who I was making it with, I was doing storyline, character sprite drawing and animation, and composition, while my friend was doing coding and tiledrawing. A week or two in and he scrapped the project and we started brainstorming again, but after that point, I lost interest, and now fiddle occasionally to see if I can ever make another sprite to match the horrible one I drew at first. Still hasn’t happened.

So good luck to her in making a video game. I want to be a video game music composer, so I admire the effort. Depending on the scale of the game, she could be looking at a year or two+ in development with a small crew of developers.

]]> By: malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » game pictures http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2007/08/game-development/comment-page-1/#comment-61781 malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » game pictures Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:28:43 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2007/08/game-development/#comment-61781 [...] As I mentioned before, Miranda seems to have gotten serious about the idea of us writing a video game. And we actually have been spending some time on it over the last month, mostly at her prodding. So far, I’ve mostly been playing around with programming, while she draws pictures in a notebook. I’d been using rubygame as a programming framework, and I still might stick with it, but it doesn’t have support for sprites at different depths; this is a problem if, say, you want to have a character walk behind a tree. So now I’m thinking I’ll go with gosu: not much documentation yet, but it seems to be able to do what I want, its sample game is extremely short yet fully functional, and when I was poking around its web site, I saw several pages that showed signs of having been edited within the last hour. All good stuff. [...] [...] As I mentioned before, Miranda seems to have gotten serious about the idea of us writing a video game. And we actually have been spending some time on it over the last month, mostly at her prodding. So far, I’ve mostly been playing around with programming, while she draws pictures in a notebook. I’d been using rubygame as a programming framework, and I still might stick with it, but it doesn’t have support for sprites at different depths; this is a problem if, say, you want to have a character walk behind a tree. So now I’m thinking I’ll go with gosu: not much documentation yet, but it seems to be able to do what I want, its sample game is extremely short yet fully functional, and when I was poking around its web site, I saw several pages that showed signs of having been edited within the last hour. All good stuff. [...]

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