Posted by: on 06.03.2009 - 12:41
Turtle Evolution. During our last game cycle we attempted to create a highly experimental game dealing with AI . Our focus this past week has been on Genetic Programming, well at least it was Danic's baby both Steven Pugh and myself felt it was something worthwhile investigating even if it was for only one week. Turtle Evolution takes a close look at genetic programming. We experimented with...
Posted by: on 06.02.2009 - 15:31
Political Catastrophe wasn't a catastrophe after all, with some diligent work and tuning over the past few days we were able to implement most of the features in the original concept. Our play testing today went well today always room for improvement and that is the sort of thing we are looking for quality feedback, speaking of feedback that was one concern that we had this cycle, provide more...
Posted by: on 31.01.2009 - 08:54
The first week of the second development cycle is coming to a close. Ashley and I have been coding diligently since Tuesday mid afternoon after we finally settled on a game concept.It took us a day and a half of brainstormin to solidify our idea. We are creating a game based on running for office. There are three main features we would like to implement, so far we have two up and running and only...
Posted by: on 23.01.2009 - 17:58
A massive rehaul in the graphics was done over the course of the past week to change the appeal of the game to a different demographic.The objectives of the game changed slightly as we made maintaining your farms the main objective rather than killing the pests. The majority of the code was already there just needed to be modified to be more inline with the new mechanics and objectives.Here is a...
Posted by: on 16.01.2009 - 18:16
The past week my main focus has been the generating of art assets and animations for some of the objects in our game including farmers. We now have an interactive game but a fair bit of code still needs to go into the game to make it playable and have a win & lose condition. This will be our focus from now until the end of the development cylce which is approaching next Friday. With...