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lawnjelly
July 17, 2018
Texture tools

After attempting to texture some models recently, using projection painting in 3d paint, the new healing brush is proving fantastic at healing up those edges between projections, but I must admit I get very frustrated trying to find suitable reference images. Part of the problem I have decided i…

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lawnjelly
July 06, 2018
Project Management

Something I feel doesn't get discussed enough in the world of gamedev, and something that in general we (more often than not) tend to be incredibly bad at, is project management. This isn't something I'm an expert at myself, I get it wrong plenty of times, but at least I'd like to stimulate a li…

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lawnjelly
June 17, 2018
Tower Defence - Post Mortem
Background

It's been a few days since I put my latest alpha of my entry for the Tower Defence challenge on itch.io and my project page:

https://lawnjelly.itch.io/ramsbottom

I think I've covered the requirements for the challenge, and made the game a bit above just the requiremen…

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lawnjelly
June 12, 2018
Tower Defence - nearing the finish line

After an initial burst of energy last month, I knew I wouldn't have so much time available for working on Tower Defence challenge up until the June 30th finish. However I did manage to get much of it working already and now I am mostly at the 'finishing up' stage.

Changes
  • More music tr…
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lawnjelly
May 30, 2018
Tower Defence second Alpha Version

This is my second alpha version for my gamedev Tower Defence challenge entry. Fingers crossed the links will work.

Linux64 (40 megs)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jfzzh3rluzd6a3h/TowerD_012_Linux_x86_64.zip?dl=0

Win32 (32 megs)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8uj1zo8izp0weg3/TowerD_012_wi…

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lawnjelly
May 25, 2018
Alpha Version

In the spirit of release early and often I have a playable alpha version of my challenge entry. I am not quite sure where is reliable to upload to so I have been trying dropbox which I've had issues with in the past, fingers crossed these links might work, please let me know if the links work / …

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lawnjelly
May 23, 2018
Tower Defence Progress

After a few days away from home I've done a bit more on the game. I must admit I'm kind of looking forward to wrapping up and working on the next thing, so am thinking more in terms of what I need to finish.

  • The towers now have separate logic and firing / sounds. There are just 3 so far…
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lawnjelly
May 17, 2018
Tower Defence video 2

Just posting this quickly as I will be off for 5 days or so and unable to access PC / work on game, so a little update.

  • Got sound working, although it needs some tweaking I need variations for the sounds but the programming side is all done. I have a sound manager that pools soun…
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lawnjelly
May 13, 2018
Tower Defence first video

Finally made a video:

This doesn't have the terrain showing, I figured out it is quicker to make a build with terrain switched off, and it increases the filesize quite a bit so I might drop the terrain, not sure yet.

I put in support yesterday for more than one enemy type, I …

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lawnjelly
May 11, 2018
Tower Defence - Day 7

I actually got to spend more time on tower defence game today. Things I got done

  • In game UI - cash, enemies remaining and player base healthbar
  • Cash system, paying for towers, bonus cash on completing level and killing enemies
  • Waves of enemies (very rudimentary)
  • Main menu…
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