Pombie Zong – Beta 1 Update
Wrote up a news post on IndieDB for Pombie Zong; outlining some of the new features and what still needs to be done before it gets published to Google Play.
Project Asteroid character art
Been helping the guys across-town over at PlayNimbus with some character/concept art.
Airstrike Powerup 2.0
Or watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/D1pxV_eiWLU
New Website, Powerups, & Menu Design
This past weekend I launched a new website dedicated to my game projects: www.cairn4.com – Not too much on it in terms of content at the moment, but eventually I’ll be transitioning my zombie game dev posts over there.
And speaking of my zombie game… Besides all the obvious benefits of using source control, one thing that’s really nice about using git is that I can use my commit log to see how much progress I make each week. Over the last month, I’ve been averaging around 4 commits per day – sometimes they’re just simple bug fixes, but sometimes they are…
Back to Basics – Zombie Game Update
Not that I have ample free time on my hands… I’ve taken up the crazy task of rewriting most of my zombie paddle/pong game with a few specific reasons and goals in mind, including:
- To use libGDX’s Scene2D for almost all of the drawing on-scree with Stages and Actors. This also makes for easy menus, buttons etc instead of attempting to porting over my 1/2 written UI setup I had back when the game was still all in XNA.
- Using libGDX’s particle emitter setup, which allows me to use the particle editor tool rather than tweaking them via code. Probably way better performance too.
- Implementing Box2D for physics/collisions. More accurate, and the possibility of cooler effects like explosion knock-back etc.
So far I’ve gotten some of the menu flow setup, and you can essentially just play a basic game of Pong… still need to add the actual zombies back in though 