WISH I COULD CODE

It was less than a month ago that I decided and announced that I’d be working on a new project called Platform Legends. In writing this update, I’ve realized the game has come really far in terms of my programming skills and actually having any repeat play value.

The latest version features:

Game Modes & Time Limits - You are able to pick up to four different game modes: Solo Survival, Solo Deathmatch, Team Survival, and Team Deathmatch. In survival modes, you are given one life and must take down the other team or players within the time limit. The remaining  team or player (if any) wins the battle and is rewarded.

Waiting Room - In this fixed pre-battle area, you are able to change your character, run around, change teams, change game modes, and hit ready when you are ready to go into battle. Once all players are ready, the room master will be able to hit “Start Battle”

8 Characters - The are currently up to eight players to choose from. In the official release, I plan to have it so that you only start off with Deagle and must unlock each character through winning battles and/or buying them with Platform Points which is received from winning battles. As the game grows, I will definitely be adding up to 20 different characters, all with unique skills and stats.

I created a generic Lobby and Game Room template. It’s fully functional and takes advantage of the channels feature of Nengi also updates the listing real-time through the lobby channel. It also deletes any rooms that have no players in it unless it’s a permanent room which can’t be created by players.

Latest Update: Finite State Machines, Hitbox on Specified Frames, and New Character Type

Finite State Machines  I learned about finite state machines and introduced it to the code to achieve a more organized system of states that approves and disapproves of actions depending on the current state. The outcome as you can compare to the last update, is now more fluid and a lot easier to work with.

Hitbox on Specified Frame I demonstrated this with the character Fir & Foke as you can see that her attack speed is slow and the hitbox is only enabled on the last frame (landing punch). This is to setup the battle system to be more strategic 

Some new things I’ve added in:

hitboxes for attacks - they differ for each character and/or attack. it’s loaded through the character loader

blocking/shielding - the shield is displayed and the character’s pose changes when you hold shift. the player is unable to attack or run while blocking

other multiple different action sequences such as death, being damaged (haven’t applied it yet), special attacks, jumping

It has occurred to me that I am just not ready to take on the project of Ninju Book without the programming experience needed to do the things I want so I’ve decided to create a ‘lighter’ project in Nengi called Platform Legends and in creating it, I hope to become intermediate in programming while also having fun and not being scared of bugs & imperfections

The game will be designed to be a 2D fast paced action platform side-scroller and here is the blueprint of what I plan to implement

Dynamic Character Creation & Loading Selectable characters will differ from each other and enhanced through a system of skills, status effects, stat buffers visuals

Teams & Balancing Each instance will have two teams: Red & Blue, Before the match starts, the system will balance teams. During intermission, the system will re-balance any players that have left the game

Death-match mode Each round is a total of 3 minutes. Within this time, your team must destroy the other team. If the player dies, he is not revived and becomes a spectator

Golem mode Each team’s objective is to climb to the top of the map and kill the Gold Golem. The player that kills the Gold Golem becomes the Gold Sword. The Gold Sword player must go to the other team’s side and slay their Golem to defeat the other team. If players attack the Golem without being a Gold Sword player, their attack will be ineffective and thus, they must protect their team’s Gold Sword player. If the Gold Sword player is killed, the Gold Golem is respawned.

I have started programming and have added animations, lame gravity, a character class and loader! It allows me to add in new characters easily and assign them to any connected player entity.

In this preview, you see 2 playable characters: Ellora & Deagle There will be at least 20 characters to choose from in the future

Tried to get back into programming by creating a login user interface to nengi. I created an infinite scrolling sky background that complimented the user interface I designed in photoshop.

It’s been quite some time! But I decided to try to continue to develop on this goal that I’ve always had but never completed and that’s to release a fun playable multiplayer ninja RPG based upon the hit series, Naruto.  I went back and touched up on the sprite base I made two years ago. It was terrible! The perspective and shading was completely wrong and it was extremely tall for no apparent reason. This means that I had to go back and redo the animations (over 80+ frames) for jumping, attacking, breathing. It was extremely tedious but after four days, I completed the mundane task.

I haven’t had much time to work on NinjuBook this week because of work and I came down with a cold but here’s a preview of how the Chat Box is looking! For direct messaging you can either manually add in a tab by inputting the user’s name or click the name that’s in the general chat history and it automatically creates the tab to direct message. Super convenient! This was put together using native DOM, CSS/HTML, and JS.