And just like that, I woke up feeling pleased by what I've accomplished and how far I've come in my life.
Yesterday my teacher told me to relax, I'm studying too much - lol yes, that's what teachers say to their students nowadays - and that I should take a day off to do something else. And there are two main things I've always loved doing: drawing and playing the piano. I've tried taking up my drawing, but I've realized that the piano, actually keyboard, is more giving and brings me peace, so I turned around to give it yet another chance in my grey life. Since I just watched the final episode of Kimi ni Todoke, a not so great anime, I simply Youtube'd a tutorial of its opening theme, one of the worse openings I've heard. Yet I stood infront of my keyboard and aped the female hands as they went right and left over a beautifully sounding piano.
Now I can play the entire opening with achords etc, yet still with a lot of flaws, but it's ok, with a little more practise I should be enjoying the song with no major problems.
This is pure joy to me. I picked a song I didn't even like, but the thrill in deconstructing it into notes, simple key presses, and then create amazing flows that follows a rhythm, a mood, and kind of create a predictable storyline, is never-ending. It's... pleasing. I have no words that describe the harmony I feel in deconstructing songs and reconstructing them again - in a way that I feel attached to! Like it was my turn to tell that story. It's amazing. I guess this is why I love being a programmer as well, I love construction.
I surely should play more piano.
In a few days I plan to learn another song, most probably it's going to be an anime song. Ages ago I began learning the popular Vampire Knights opening, but it's really advanced, so I wonder if I should postpone it and take something light and easy to remember. Oh well, I'll get back to this when time comes.
As for Army of One, the game project I'm currently developing - did I say that I'm going to publish it in the game portal Aluna Games? :D Head over to the Army of One Forums in Aluna Games if you haven't been there yet =)
The development is going well, today I managed to boost the speed of the "wurm" to over 400km/h, just crazy stuff! The slip ratio is much better too, it doesn't slide like before so more control to the people!
The vehicle flips are inevitable (especially when you fly off a cliff with 400km/h), but it's not a problem but a feature, as I'm dealing with fairly realistic physics here, and here's an example of how to use it - with atleast 150km/h, drive into a tunnel and up on it's walls, keep accelerating and you've made a flip with the entire vehicle! =) It already looks nice, and with sound effects it should be sweeeet!
Yeah... that's me enjoying work. I consider writing about the newly released Marvel vs Capcom 3, which I ofcourse had to buy already, as I got in love with it at a game expo in November. My 10 year old sister is beating the pride out of me, so I need to be better already! Until then - take care!
/Kweiko
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23 feb. 2011
10 nov. 2010
3 months and game making
3 months since last update! That's been a while! I've had family issues and moving from one apartment to another and boring stuff that I'm glad is partly over. On the other hand, I've been working with my minigame Army of One (working title), that I originally started building with the help of a tutorial series on Youtube. That was during summer when I thought that my programming skills still sucked and I had to do something about it. Feeling a bit more comfortable with programming, I developed it and added stuff like score counter and timer.
One day I got email from my university, saying that they will show students' work during Gamex 2010, the biggest game convension in Scandinavia. I first hesitated to participate but two weeks later I signed up! It was really a fun and inspiring experience but I had to work really hard to make my game-ish prototype really playable and worth to show. I added better graphics (but still a programmer's art really...), made a highscore list, changed the environment and the whole menu design, added sound effects and more eye candy. I'm really pleased with what I've achieved during such a short time, and don't feel like a noob anymore :P
The evening before Gamex, I got an email from the responsible saying that my game isn't working properly!! I panicked and a started to try and fix stuff, the problem lied within the frame update because of the processor. I had from the beginning programmed all movements so they won't be frame dependant, but the problem now was that since it was lagging, the avatar leaped through the small level and even if that's fair in a racing game, it's totally unneccessary in my game. Then everything was different - what went fast on my computer went really slowly on the other computer, so I really had to customize the code for that computer from distance, fixing problems I couldn't see :S
Late at night I received the awated email, saying that it works, the character isn't as fast as it should be but it's still playable and working pretty well. Rest assured, I fell on sleep and the next 4 days, 4th-7th of November, I spent on Gamex LIVING the game industry :P
Gamex was the best thing happening to me during 2010, I slept a little, I didn't eat while there, and because of the high volume on everything, I screamed my voice off during the conversations. But I loved it, I really felt "this is my home" and enjoyed every minute being there - so much that the guard had to come get me when I and my friend was playing Marvel vs Capcom 3 after closing time! XD
I've also started "studying" in a distance based 1 year long course! During this year, until June 2011, I'll be working on a game project, and I decided to remake Army of One and really develop it to be a proper game to publish, this time also in Unity game engine. It's so exciting and I get great advice from different tutors and teachers, and I'm putting my soul into this one. Right now I'm on the conceptualization phase and not everything is set, but after two meetings with my tutor, my head is soon exploding from all the inspiration!
But I still need a few more people to work with me, I'm doing this project with my brother who's the producer, but I'm the director and need atleast one or two more to help me with the programming and with the design/concept arting. If things goes well, the production phase will start during January 2011.
I'll blog more about my progress so stay tuned! But right now I really have to wash the dishes!
Cheers
/Kweiko
One day I got email from my university, saying that they will show students' work during Gamex 2010, the biggest game convension in Scandinavia. I first hesitated to participate but two weeks later I signed up! It was really a fun and inspiring experience but I had to work really hard to make my game-ish prototype really playable and worth to show. I added better graphics (but still a programmer's art really...), made a highscore list, changed the environment and the whole menu design, added sound effects and more eye candy. I'm really pleased with what I've achieved during such a short time, and don't feel like a noob anymore :P
The evening before Gamex, I got an email from the responsible saying that my game isn't working properly!! I panicked and a started to try and fix stuff, the problem lied within the frame update because of the processor. I had from the beginning programmed all movements so they won't be frame dependant, but the problem now was that since it was lagging, the avatar leaped through the small level and even if that's fair in a racing game, it's totally unneccessary in my game. Then everything was different - what went fast on my computer went really slowly on the other computer, so I really had to customize the code for that computer from distance, fixing problems I couldn't see :S
Late at night I received the awated email, saying that it works, the character isn't as fast as it should be but it's still playable and working pretty well. Rest assured, I fell on sleep and the next 4 days, 4th-7th of November, I spent on Gamex LIVING the game industry :P
Gamex was the best thing happening to me during 2010, I slept a little, I didn't eat while there, and because of the high volume on everything, I screamed my voice off during the conversations. But I loved it, I really felt "this is my home" and enjoyed every minute being there - so much that the guard had to come get me when I and my friend was playing Marvel vs Capcom 3 after closing time! XD
I've also started "studying" in a distance based 1 year long course! During this year, until June 2011, I'll be working on a game project, and I decided to remake Army of One and really develop it to be a proper game to publish, this time also in Unity game engine. It's so exciting and I get great advice from different tutors and teachers, and I'm putting my soul into this one. Right now I'm on the conceptualization phase and not everything is set, but after two meetings with my tutor, my head is soon exploding from all the inspiration!
But I still need a few more people to work with me, I'm doing this project with my brother who's the producer, but I'm the director and need atleast one or two more to help me with the programming and with the design/concept arting. If things goes well, the production phase will start during January 2011.
I'll blog more about my progress so stay tuned! But right now I really have to wash the dishes!
Cheers
/Kweiko
1 mars 2010
Path finding: One for all and more for me
Somewhere between New Year and School start, I and my friend realized that our plans for building and programming two robots with path finding and simultaneously work with the final project to make a game were waaaay too unrealistic due to time press and resources. So we've been trying to find a new subject, that is more related to our project, to write about.
In the final project, my part right now is taking care of the NPC's AI (non player character's artificial intelligence) (say that five times!). It's very difficult, that's one thing I've learnt so far. I have huge problems finding good resources and tutorials, so I've been struggling like hell with it. We're doing the scripting in C#, I use the VC# Express to edit, since Visual Studio is awesome aaaand you can integrate it with the Unity3D game engine, which we use for the game development as I've mentioned before. (If you happen to know good AI tuts, or can point me at the right direction, please share the information!)
I've been waiting for help and some tutoring for like two months now and I keep asking the teacher who's responsible for our course when to get us a tutor, but everyone's so busy and everything is so chaotic, there's no one to ask for help yet. I can't imagine why the teacher didn't find tutors during the previous semester, it really bothers me.
But enough about complaining!
Individual Project
To get an A or a B in the final project, we're supposed to focus on something specific and write/blog about the process of learning more about that specific thing, making an individual project out of it. I've decided to focus on the NPC's path finding, and I want to implement the A* algorithm to our NPCs, which will behave differently while chasing the player. Quite a task for me, imo!
The good thing is, I've implemented the Dijkstra's algorithm some year ago, in Java, so I have a clue on what it should look like and what to expect.
... so to wrap it up, we've been thinking about what to write about for our thesis, and at last I had enough and told my friend that we should write about path finding. She was worried about me doing all the work, since I'm the one responsible for the AI in the game, but that's the thing - I'm going to do all the work anyway, she could help me research and write the thesis, I've come to dislike such academic writing for some reason. So I've written a promemoria and sent it to the teacher and he thinks it's a great subject to write about!
And now, the real battle begins!
In the final project, my part right now is taking care of the NPC's AI (non player character's artificial intelligence) (say that five times!). It's very difficult, that's one thing I've learnt so far. I have huge problems finding good resources and tutorials, so I've been struggling like hell with it. We're doing the scripting in C#, I use the VC# Express to edit, since Visual Studio is awesome aaaand you can integrate it with the Unity3D game engine, which we use for the game development as I've mentioned before. (If you happen to know good AI tuts, or can point me at the right direction, please share the information!)
I've been waiting for help and some tutoring for like two months now and I keep asking the teacher who's responsible for our course when to get us a tutor, but everyone's so busy and everything is so chaotic, there's no one to ask for help yet. I can't imagine why the teacher didn't find tutors during the previous semester, it really bothers me.
But enough about complaining!
Individual Project
To get an A or a B in the final project, we're supposed to focus on something specific and write/blog about the process of learning more about that specific thing, making an individual project out of it. I've decided to focus on the NPC's path finding, and I want to implement the A* algorithm to our NPCs, which will behave differently while chasing the player. Quite a task for me, imo!
The good thing is, I've implemented the Dijkstra's algorithm some year ago, in Java, so I have a clue on what it should look like and what to expect.
... so to wrap it up, we've been thinking about what to write about for our thesis, and at last I had enough and told my friend that we should write about path finding. She was worried about me doing all the work, since I'm the one responsible for the AI in the game, but that's the thing - I'm going to do all the work anyway, she could help me research and write the thesis, I've come to dislike such academic writing for some reason. So I've written a promemoria and sent it to the teacher and he thinks it's a great subject to write about!
And now, the real battle begins!
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