October 2017 GameDev Challenge: Arcade Battle Arena!

Penguin · 2017-12-24T09:07:16

Arcade Battle Arena Challenge! Make a game like the classics Bubble Bobble and Super Mario Bros 3 Battle Mode. Those games involve one or two players battling against waves of enemies on an arena. Game Requirements The game must have: Start screen Key to return to the start screen Score system Minimum of 2 enemies with different behavior (AI) Graphics at least for the UI, player and enemies Sound effects at least for when the player is hurt and when an enemy is killed The actual gameplay must happen on a single screen (no camera translation) Art Requirements The game can be 2D or 3D The art must use a maximum 16 colors palette The art must be your own Tips An interesting game design approach of the two games is that they require the player to neutralize the enemy first, before killing it: In the Super Mario Bros 3 Battle Mode, to kill an enemy, the player must first hit underneath the platform where the enemy is walking on In Bubble Bobble, to kill an enemy, the player must first shot a bubble on the enemy You can quickly make sound effects on Chiptone You can decrease your color count by replacing two similar colors with a median between the two colors. This works nicely for similar dark colors or similar light colors Enemy behavior can involve: Response to the environment. What is the kind of tile that the enemy is currently at? What are the kind of tiles that are in front or behind the enemy? Response to the player. Where is the player? Is it too far away? Is it close? In front or behind? How the enemy will respond to that? Motion pattern. Does the enemy walk on the platform and stop for some time? Does it fly? Games like Super Mario World are good examples with a great variety of enemy patterns. The tutorials on Youtube by Shaun Spalding teach some enemy programming. They are for Game Maker, but the logic can be translated to other game engine or framework: " rel="external"> " rel="external"> " rel="external"> Duration 4 weeks - October 6, 2017 to November 3, 2017 Submission Post on this thread only your entries: Link to the executable (specifying the platform) Screenshots: if the screenshots are too big, post just a few, if they are small, you can post more, just don't take the entire space A small post-mortem, in the same post of the entry, is encouraged, where you can share what went right, what went wrong, or just share a nifty trick Source-code link is encouraged

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Started by penguinbyebye October 04, 2017 08:12 PM

38 comments, last by Endurion 6 years, 11 months ago

povilaslt2

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October 17, 2017 09:17 AM

Probably will try to do this challenge if I learn how to do that path finding. How you will do your path finding for this challenge?

Finalspace

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October 17, 2017 11:37 AM

2 hours ago, povilaslt2 said:

Probably will try to do this challenge if I learn how to do that path finding. How you will do your path finding for this challenge?

Maybe you can try a line trace to a direction, so you can see where you can walk and where you cant. But making it jump is a lot harder i think. Also you can use a tilemap structure to see where you can walk and where you cant. I dont think you need a path finding for that.

But i never made any AI programming in my entirely 25 years of programming at all, so i just guess. Maybe it isn´t that hard?...Also there are plenty of resources out there.

Regarding if you can do this challenge: Just start and do it, you will see how far you can get. You can always hack something in

My youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/F1nalspace

penguinbyebye

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October 17, 2017 12:50 PM

3 hours ago, povilaslt2 said:

Probably will try to do this challenge if I learn how to do that path finding. How you will do your path finding for this challenge?

What @Finalspace said about checking the tiles to see where the enemy can walk and where it can't is a good and simple idea. (it is what I'm doing, too).

On 10/13/2017 at 3:10 PM, Finalspace said:

Making progress after a few evenings (Yeah i know it looks really devy, but it works great and has a stable system behind):

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=iGGA1d_8dJY

Can't see the video. It's redirecting to my own channel url.

I'm slow on the development bc I'm studying for a test on 22nd :'(, after that I will be able to finish the game.

slicer4ever

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October 17, 2017 09:57 PM

9 hours ago, ferreiradaselva said:

Can't see the video. It's redirecting to my own channel url.

Here's a fixed link:

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Check out https://www.facebook.com/LiquidGames for some great games made by me on the Playstation Mobile market.

Zygen

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October 17, 2017 11:18 PM

I'm still somewhat new when it comes to game creation, considering I haven't ever finished or really even done anything, been doing some basic tutorials with Unity. I did some with Gamemaker, but I wasn't a huge fan of Gamemaker even after finishing a tutorial with that.

Regardless, maybe I'll atleast try and make something for this, just for the experience.

Endurion

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October 18, 2017 12:24 PM

Here's a GIF (thanks ScreenToGIF) of my entry, probably named Birdie's Revenge. It's a sequel of sorts to an old Bubble Bobble clone I wrote for DOS (Turbo Pascal, yay!)

The game play is Bubble Bobble like, but I plan to add quite a few more extras than the old clone had:

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Finalspace

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October 20, 2017 01:43 PM

On 18.10.2017 at 2:24 PM, Endurion said:

Here's a GIF (thanks ScreenToGIF) of my entry, probably named Birdie's Revenge. It's a sequel of sorts to an old Bubble Bobble clone I wrote for DOS (Turbo Pascal, yay!)

The game play is Bubble Bobble like, but I plan to add quite a few more extras than the old clone had:

Looks great! It seems to be complete as well.

I am making progress too, but i am far from finishing the game:

My youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/F1nalspace

masskonfuzion

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October 23, 2017 05:29 PM

Holy crap!! I wish I had seen this gamedev challenge earlier. Is this a monthly thing? I don't have enough time to submit an entry for Oct 2017, but I'll definitely join for upcoming challenges.

penguinbyebye

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October 23, 2017 07:21 PM

1 hour ago, masskonfuzion said:

I don't have enough time to submit an entry for Oct 2017, but I'll definitely join for upcoming challenges.

You can totally submit after. You can interpret it like "make this game in 4 weeks". The most important thing here is learning.

1 hour ago, masskonfuzion said:

Holy crap!! I wish I had seen this gamedev challenge earlier. Is this a monthly thing? I don't have enough time to submit an entry for Oct 2017, but I'll definitely join for upcoming challenges.

Any user can submit a challenge (under a mod approval), and it's not necessarily a monthly thing: https://www.gamedev.net/forums/forum/81-gamedev-challenges/