/tags/game-devlog/ Recent content in Game-Devlog on mattous.co.uk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Matt Hardy Sun, 27 Nov 2022 21:02:52 +0000 /posts/game-devlog-1/ Sun, 27 Nov 2022 21:02:52 +0000 /posts/game-devlog-1/ <p>When I was a teenager me and some friends were obsessed with Sonic. We would play Sonic games in the woods &amp; in the playground a school, we were not cool. We even designed levels and came up with new characters for games we hoped we might one day make.</p> <p>Skip forward some 30 years and I find myself with time and some skills in programming, so I’m going to have a stab at game development. I won’t be making Sonic games, but I’m going to learn what I can. I’ve been working through some tutorials and getting started with the basics. It’s not like anything I’ve done before and I’m excited to write about what I learn along the way. I hope as my kids grow, it will be fun to make games with them. I have no illusions of ever making any money from this hobby. It’s purely a way to learn something new and have some fun along the way.</p> <p>When I was a teenager me and some friends were obsessed with Sonic. We would play Sonic games in the woods &amp; in the playground a school, we were not cool. We even designed levels and came up with new characters for games we hoped we might one day make.</p> <p>Skip forward some 30 years and I find myself with time and some skills in programming, so I’m going to have a stab at game development. I won’t be making Sonic games, but I’m going to learn what I can. I’ve been working through some tutorials and getting started with the basics. It’s not like anything I’ve done before and I’m excited to write about what I learn along the way. I hope as my kids grow, it will be fun to make games with them. I have no illusions of ever making any money from this hobby. It’s purely a way to learn something new and have some fun along the way.</p> <p>I’m landed on using <a href="https://godotengine.org/">Godot</a> as my tool of choice. It’s open source and runs on my computer well enough. I’ll be starting simply with 2D games and seeing what I can build. I may also get to look at making some of the artwork in time, but for now, there are plenty of free resources out there to get started with.</p> <p>So funny mistakes have been made already, shooting gigantic fireballs that go nowhere, mobs chasing me way too fast. I’ve also overcome some challenges, things that I thought would be really difficult, like preventing mobs spawning in a particular location so they don’t get stuck in the terrain.</p> <figure class="center" > <img src="fireballs.gif" alt="fireballs gone wrong" style="border-radius: 8px;" /> <figcaption class="center" style="color: black;" >fireballs gone wrong</figcaption> </figure> <p>I’ll be adding what I’ve made to <a href="https://github.com/mattous/godot">this repo</a>, mistakes and all. I’ve done the basics added a player, some mobs that respawn and chase you. Currently working on level generation, which has mostly been copied/pasted from a tutorial. The mobs no longer chase me around the map, but they are at least spawning now.</p> <p>It’s been a big learning curve for sure. I expect I’ll share some of what I learn along the way here. If anything I make actually turns into a full game, I’ll be pretty surprised. It’s really early days yet, but I do have a bunch of ideas about what sort of game I would make. I just need to figure out the basics first.</p>