#ggjam

This weekend i attended The global game jam. I designed enemies for the game, they didn’t make it in the game tho. 

So this weekend I participated in the Global Game Jam!

https://youtu.be/zZWe8-4OYEU

Every year fast foods from across the galaxy come together for a chance to win one of the last remaining bananas.

Fast foods fight it out in a fast paced, free for all battle royal. It's raw, uncensored food on food violence. Send your opponents flying through the arena and claim the flying banana for yourself. Every second you control the banana awards you precious points. Reach 1000 points and walk off the stage as this year's Food Fight champion.

Whelp, I did it! I made my first game. It’s not amazing or very polished but it works and it’s playable. I ran into 2 massive hurdles. The first was I had to completely rewire how I was doing composite pieces. Each block needs to be able to disappear so each piece is actually composed of multiple pieces, giving their appendages autonomy.

The other stumbling block was a massive bug with how I was clearing rows. I almost gave up but jumped into the debugger and was able to find it. Turned out to be a simple fix! 

Download links are:

Mac Windows Linux

I used Unity and I have no idea if the Windows or Linux executables work. Ping me on twitter at @taterbase if you’re having trouble. 

I decided to participate in this year’s global game jam (http://globalgamejam.org/) which I’ll also be using as my submission for the game a month jam. I’m as green as it gets for game development so what I’m making won’t be incredible but it’s been a lot of fun for me. I’m making a tetris-like that has aspirations for some fun multiplayer aspects but my progress is slow and I’ll be lucky if I can make something that’s even fun to play alone. We’ll see how it goes :).

I started this dev journal late and was just taking notes in a google keep file so I’ll just transcribe that to start things off. 

Danktris 2016-30-01 14:40

I've been really needing to start a game dev diary and I guess there's no time like the present. I've been working on a tetris like game for about a week in earnest now. It's amazing how much you realize you don't know when you go from following tutorials to actually building something. I think I've changed how collision works 3 times now. The most recent revelation is my blocks don't actually need rigidbodies. Previously I was using triggers (which require at least one of the objects to have a rigidbody) to detect when I landed on the floor, but then I realized I needed to detect walls to the left and right of the blocks. A simple trigger isn't going to help. Using tags on the walls could work but it would be weird to have a left_wall tag and a right_wall tag. I decided to go back and look at the rogue-like tutorial unity3d has (http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/projects/2d-roguelike-tutorial) and saw that they were actually using raycasting before moving. Of course! I should look where I'm going before I go. So now I'm converting the collision detection over to linecasting instead of triggers. I keep sitting down hoping to make progress but I often find I have to rework existing stuff quite a bit. 

Danktris 2016-01-30 19:47