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After completing the KnightFall, it's time to playtest it. Our group members discussed which participants to get for the test and listed some basic questions to ask the testers and survey them. In the end we got five people to ask questions that would give us enough insight into the five testers in terms of their gaming preferences. Firstly without being told anything about the game we let the playtesters do the first round of basic testing and after completing the first round we were told of some obvious and basic bugs for us to fix. After fixing some bugs and refining the game, the five playtesters were given a second round of playtesting and finally given a detailed playtesting questionnaire to fill out in order to find out more about the game.

Eric and I formed a two-person team to work together on assignment 3, and after some discussion, we decided to use the platformer that Eric had designed, and the platformer mechanics and levels could continue to be added.

Our group had just started planning to design a platformer and wanted to add some more content, so we discussed adding a character melee system that would give the characters life points and have three attack forms for the melee system. Enemies having the ability to move, the main game interface, those were the basics. The next step was to refine the levels and the presentation of the graphics.

Before I started working on one sheet and one page, I learnt that the two were different niches, with one sheet being more of a promotional poster that needed to show the beauty and appeal of the design. The one page is more detailed, with the game mechanics and gameplay written on it.

I invited a friend to try out the game as a player and he gave me some feedback. The game runs smoothly, the UI is clear and easy to understand, and the game is overall fun. There are still a lot of shortcomings in the game, such as the gameplay is relatively single, you can only avoid other cars or take the initiative to collide with other cars, and there is only one speed of the car, if you can accelerate and decelerate or brake, you will have a better game experience. In terms of scenery, there are too few decorations in the scenes and the roads are only lined with trees, which lacks richness.

This is the third game I have developed, and after this time I have mastered some of the processes and methods necessary for GDevelop to become more proficient in the production of this learning. The gameplay is based on the player steering the car and avoiding the cars on the road.

The mechanics of the racing game are relatively simple for me, as the mechanics of the previous two games allow for active attacks on enemies such as jumping attacks and shooting, in addition to avoiding damage. So in a racing game, the main source of damage is hitting another car, which has an explosion effect. I have a separate health bar for the game, where the player's car has an initial health of 100, which is reduced if it hits another car, and the car hit by the player disappears.

One of the new things I learned while developing this game was the ability to add coordinates of items to the events page to mark locations without having to drag all the items to the main screen, and the ability for trees on both sides of the road to reappear to create a vehicle movement effect. Here are some of the new things I learnt in the events page.

Name and brief description of the prototype：Wild Ride

A new type of car has emerged in the future, which is faster and more difficult to handle than normal cars, and the player is taking part in a test drive competition for the new car. Players can choose their favourite car and drive it at high speed, avoiding obstacles and other cars on the road to reach the finish line.

The genre: Racing

Mode of Gameplay: Players need to control the direction and speed of the car. The main gameplay is to avoid obstacles and control the direction of the car with WASD.

Setting: This is racing game, mainly to allow the player to fully experience the fun of racing, the game has different levels of difficulty, the initial obstacles are less and slower, after playing for a certain time, the speed of the car controlled by the player will speed up and the number of obstacles will also increase.

Platformer Post Mortem

The good part This is the first time I have developed a platformer and the finish is very good, the game as a whole runs smoothly. For every gold coin the player collects, a point is awarded in the column showing the score, which indicates more clarity. For the graphics art, I found some models of scenes and characters on the website and put them in my own production for a more concrete presentation.

Parts that need improvement When the character goes backwards, the character cannot turn back, which is an issue that affects the player's experience of the character's graphics. This time I used the game mode from the GDevelop tutorial, which lacks some independent design, and the final result developed is not mature enough, I will design all the levels independently by myself in the future.

After learning how to make platformer at GDevelop, I set about designing and developing it. My game is Ninja Adventure, a very basic 2d platformer where the goal is to get the final weapon. The action is simple, the main mechanic is to use the up, down, left and right keys to jump. Players can collect gold coins by jumping on top of the ice bricks above, and the attack is the most basic one, by jumping on the enemies to defeat them and finally reaching the end to get the weapon (Kunai).

The characters will show different actions in different states. The static state is the posture of the characters standing on their feet. I added ten pictures for the running and jumping characters to ensure that each frame is in line with the design effect. Makes the final effect more smooth.

During the actual development process, after I placed enemies in the scene, I found that the enemies would keep moving until they fell off the platform, so I added two pointing arrows to limit the range of the enemies, and then I went on to learn a tutorial on hiding the arrow icons, which was a bonus for me. I was able to use this hidden item feature to complete some functional actions for developing the game later.

The following is my modification process：

Name and brief description of the prototype：Ninja Adventure

The new world has seen the emergence of demons, the natural enemies of mankind, and the ninjas have gathered to form an organisation dedicated to hunting demons. The protagonist needs to cross these obstacles to reach the end in order to obtain the weapon.

The genre: Action

Mode of Gameplay: Players need to control their characters as they run, jump and leap over obstacles to reach the end of the platform to obtain weapons.

Setting: The style of the game is a little more cartoonish, not realistic. Before the game starts there is an animation that tells the story of the ninja.

The good part The final test did not produce many bugs and was working properly and smoothly, which is a big improvement for me. I changed the speed of the player ship's bullets to allow for better shooting of enemy ships and added bullets for enemy ships.

I changed the background and some of the icons, and I added my own design to the style and colours of the ships and planets to give the final result.

Parts that need improvement There is a lot of parts for improvement and the game is not complete. The overall gameplay is very simple and uncomplicated, and the game with GDevelop is not able to perform many complex operations and present realistic combat effects. For example, the player's ship is not easy to aim at when shooting and the arrow keys are not sensitive, which affects the player's experience.

Hello everyone, this is a development post about my project for a space shooter game.

Pre-development preparation The name of the game I created is Space Mafia and it is a 2d game with a shooting focus. I had just designed the idea for the game and was thinking about how to create the basics of the game. So I studied a tutorial on space shooters from GDevelop and learnt the basics of how to set up the players, backgrounds, enemies, bullets and different levels and a number of other detailed actions. These are some of the features I would like to add to my own game.

The gameplay of Space Mafia is very basic and simple. The player controls the ship and shoots at enemy ships and is able to avoid crashing into planets in the universe, plus I added a medicine to increase the health bar and a shield for defence. This makes the game even richer.

Development process I followed the tutorial roughly to learn a lot about production and applied it to the development of this game. It was a challenge for me to develop the game with a lot of different values, conditions and actions based on my own game, and to test it at each stage of development to identify and change any problems.

In addition I made three different levels of difficulty and added three levels with different UI on the main menu to guide the player, who needs to pass the previous level to move on to the next one.

The biggest challenge for me was the events page, I had to complete two events pages, one for the base scene and one for the main menu. I needed to fully understand the mechanics of the shooter in order to get each value right. Adding the values to the events pages is a very delicate task and requires constant debugging to ensure the game works properly.

Name and brief description of the prototype：Space Mafia In 2095, with the development of technology and the realisation of FTL driving technology, mankind can travel to various planets in the solar system to settle and live, as well as move around in space. But goods need to be transported in space, and the prices of goods from different planets have huge deviations, so there are traders who do business trading between the planets. But the lack of security between the planets of the solar system has led to the emergence of various mafia forces in space who intercept the merchants' goods and smuggle arms. Different space mafia groups would break out into fights.

The genre: Shooting

Mode of Gameplay: Shoot, pilot the spaceship and control it in battle. Spaceships can be upgraded by modifying them, collecting objects or defeating enemies.

Setting: The game takes place in the future in the year 2095 and will present a sci-fi style scenario, as the mafia struggle takes place in the interstellar and the battlefield will be set between the planets of the solar system.