Update 9 - Title screen

Heres the latest of my progress video's. This one shows a title screen going into the game. Again, its rough around the edges and not quite finished, but its a milestone in progres.

Heres the video

Update 8 - Hit point system

Ive now added a hit point system into the game which allows the player more flexibility in the game.

Heres the video

Update 7 - new jumping code

Ive reworked my jumping code so now the character jumps properly across all of the map.
Now this is sorted im going to work on player + enemy hit points.

heres the video

Update 6 - Cursor tracking

I have now managed to change how the character shoots. The shot now moves in the direction of the mouse cursor instead of a straight line.

Heres the video

Update 5 - shooting

I have now got my character to shoot and when the "bullet" hits an enemy, it kills it and records a points value on the screen.

Heres the video

Game test 4

This one ive managed to work out how to create a colision event, so the character follows the land hes walking on.

Heres the video!

Game editor update 3

Lots of progression with this program, this time i have a nicejump animation that works as though "gravity" effects it. Still needs tweaking, but the idea is defonatly there!

A third video for you guys to check it out.

Game editor update 2

I have just managed to get a collectable system working, where I am able to walk around and pick up items giving me points. Im sure I could work this into a high scores table or something.

Also.. the scripting language that is built into this engine is C, which is nice to know... :P

Another video file, enjoy.

Game Editor trailer

Really cool trailer promoting game editor. looks like we can do some awesome things with this software

Game Maker Tests

Hey guys, heres a quick video I have made in regards to the 2D game engine I found. I plan to keep posting bits and bobs here informing everyone with what you can do with the software. Hopefully you will all find this rather useful + i hope you guys use it yourselves, as I think it will make our FMP workload abit easier on not just ourselves, but probably raj too, as im sure everyone will be stealing him for director scripts :P

Anyway... heres the video. Enjoy!

another 2d engine

Heres a second engine that I found, which seems to be very versatile for designing some 2D games. Im going to play around with it soon, see what it can do. Heres the link for anyone else interested.

http://game-editor.com/

2D game engine

I have been looking into how i can develop a really stable game platform, because as we all know, Director isn't the best of programs to create a game on. While searching I came across a very nice looking piece of freeware. It is called Love2D. (http://love2d.org/)

It uses LUA scripting to put together what could be a very nice game package. It even has some 2D particle and physics modules so you can do some very interesting stuff with it. I think its relatively new compared to other 2D engines that I have come across, which could mean help in this area maybe limited.

Still, A very nice find, and I may even use this over the next few weeks, depending if I can get my head around it or not.