Burstin' Bubbles v1.0 (downloadable)

After a while without posting ( I was busy coding and playing Far Cry 3 ( best game ever! ) ), I am happy to tell you that version 1.0 of Burstin' Bubbles is done! It's a playable game, downloadable here (~5MB via Dropbox). It works on Windows 7, not sure about other Windows versions, but should work as well. It features a simple Shoot 'm Up in which the player has a machine gun and Medipacks laying around the city (currently filled in...

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Coding the Bubble (Part 5 - Major additions!)

It's been 4 days since I've posted anything, but I've done loads of work in the meantime. I've added sounds, HUD, replaying of level, loading screen, graphical update of the character, spawning enemies that will follow you, feedback on the enemies indicating health, added Medipacks(which heal 50%), a brand new environment with some graphics, added a MathHelper class with functions as Random(), Normalize(), etc., 2 types of collision (rectangular(somewhat...

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Coding the Bubble (Part 4 - Shooting the enemies)

I've made some major improvements to the functionality (and the graphics!). I've implemented mouse-aiming,  shooting of enemies (they die after 10 shots), enemies looking at the player, bullets with an owner, major improvements to the organization of code. I got the polymorphism to work and now I update all objects with one Vector. I also implemented a GetType() function in the GameObject (and deriving classes) to easily check what types are...

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Coding the Bubble (Part 3 - Basic Collision & Shooting)

Implementing basic collision went almost as smooth as I had expected. Had some problems with keeping the objects separated from eachother when there is a collision. I used a radius-based collision system, which basicly means; when the distance between two objects is smaller than the radius of one, there is a collision. When there is a collision, I keep the two objects from interpenetrating eachother by displacing object A (the player) in the direction...

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Coding the Bubble (Part 2)

I've been busy lately, not so much with programming, but more with my temporary job before I go back to school. Takes a lot of time, but I get payed for it, so it's not that bad. For the programming part, I haven't done a lot. I struggled a lot with setting up a derived class from the GameObject-class. I kept trying to call the GameObject constructor from the Player's constructor, but it removed the texture every time I tried, so now I have duplicate...

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Coding the Bubble (Part 1)

Hi there and welcome to my second series of posts about my intake assignment for the NHTV Game Programming study. I've written several posts about the design process and if you haven't read those, here's part 1! Apparently, this assignment isn't mandatory if you are able to come to an interview. I'm doing it anyway, just to showcase what I can and hopefully don't even have to do an interview. I'm not afraid of that interview, but I just want to be...

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Brainstorming about Bubbles (Part 3)

As I mentioned in my previous post, this post will be about the goals and how to accomplish those of the "Burstin' Bubbles" game. Step 8. Defining the goals for the player There should be an overall goal for our player, a goal that will make the player want to play the game and to make clear why the player has to do missions and perform certain actions. To achieve this goal, the player has to achieve a certain goal for each level. So, we need a main goal and goals per level. End goal The end goal of the game will be to prevent the collapse...

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