Comments on: S’troidz!: Week 2 Update

By: zapakitul

zapakitul — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:21:50 +0000

Looks good. I love how the ship looks. Good job Phil.

By: Ben Garney

Ben Garney — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:21:08 +0000

Nice work Phil! I can’t wait for week three.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:54:55 +0000

@Chris I had meant for this to mean “Lives Remaining”. Will have to check out some other games to see what the standard is.

@Matt The source isn’t ready for public consumption but there’s excellent demo code over at the PushButton Engine site.

@blend101 The asteroids are temporary until I either instantly become an artist or have someone help me. But to your question, I believe there are solutions out there that let you convert 3d animations to 2d sprite sheets. Tim Aste from PushButton Labs shared a bunch of links to game asset resources here: http://pushbuttonengine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=90&start=0&hilit=resources#p486

By: blend101

blend101 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:30:43 +0000

Nice man, it’s coming along
How did you generate the asteroids, I mean is it like an animation (how they rotate in what looks like 3d)

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:56:05 +0000

Very nice! Needs explosions though.

Is the source available? I think some of my advanced students would like to read it.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:20:47 +0000

Nice. The fonts are a real nice addition.

I would have expected the Lives counter to count down from 3 to 1 and then go to zero when the game ended. As is, your last life reads as “Lives: 0″ and then remains unchanged when you die for the final time.