Aloha! It’s been a while and as development of the NovaStar project continued in full swing keeping up with the workload along with some other commitments meant I had to put the daily dev diary posts on hold for a few weeks. With my schedule opening up again I can…

Aloha! Today we continued development on our NovaStar project and with the weapons locked in we put our focus onto developing our enemy roster for the game. My responsibility for the day was to build a new enemy type that is small, fast, and dies in one hit which we…

Aloha! Today our team continued our development of our team project however the report today will be a bit on the light side for programming detail. …

Aloha! Today’s chunk of development consisted of working on two main features, integrating the weapons that have been created into the weapon system for the game and completing the charge laser weapon which received another round of revisions. The Weapon Selection System The weapon system was developed by my teammate…

Aloha! Today we are continuing with the point of development that I left off at yesterday which was developing a new type of weapon for the player to use. The weapon in question was a sustained laser that the player can sweep over multiple enemies. Programming this mechanic was a…

Aloha! For today we started our development in proper by working on our chosen roles to put together a 2.5D side-scrolling shooter. My role for this section of the project was developing the different weapons that the player will switch between as they upgrade themselves by destroying and downgrade themselves…

Aloha! Today we shifted gears in the program and we started on a group project that we plan to the develop over the next 1–2 weeks. We are a team of 6 members who are aiming to make a 2.5 side scrolling arcade shooter in a similar style to the…

Aloha! Today’s work was a continuation of the development of different enemy movement behaviors and types for Phase II: Core Programming. Where I last left off yesterday I was able to implement a a basic variation to the enemy movement patterns where the enemies can travel in varying diagonal angles…

Aloha! Today was the day I moved on from the Framework phase into the Core Programming phase of the course. This involved a new set of challenges to implement and expand the experience of the game. At first I made a quick pass through the list of requirements and checked…