Porting To Blender

iv'e been porting this game I wrote for pyweek competetion to a blender game (i.e, using blender's internal game engine). There were a couple of things that took a while for me to get a grap of.
1) Making the trees move when it is being cut, there were a couple of different ways i tried but finally i've put in a lame hack just so it will work.
2) How to make sure each level's objectives are different even while linking it from a different file.
3) Making the smoke look right, making it fade away.
4) A little trouble fixing the camera angle etc. But the current thing seems pretty solid.

I've tried to use the feedback I got for the game in the prev competetion as guidance for the dev of this game. Hopefully iv'e fixed most of them.. Well almost.. I still have to design the levels and make sure they are intuitive enough.
1) Heating up only when cutting wood, (stand still and it will cool down.. standard fair.. like in most games)
2) Instead of some weird cooling/heating thing controlling the outcome of the game, I've put in a timer. It is same for all the levels.. The difficulty will increase based on the requirements in the level (wood to cut and cops to trap)

Since I've got better experience with coloring using gimp, thanks to all the paper toy themes i've been working on.. :) any way.. ive' re-vamped the textures of the trees in the game. I even bumped up the polycount on them. They look pretty good now.

One more improvement in visual department is the trap, well in the original game this was just one flat polygon with a very crappy texture. Now I've made a very cool looking trap which looks just like a plant but when a cop crosses through it.. He gets' trapped literally.. like he is in a jail :)... hopefully ill' be able to make the levels fun to play.

Flash animations in GoDot Engine

If you have not heard about GoDot game engine,.. you should check it out right away.. godotengine.org Last time, i wrote a blog post about my experience making a simple physics game to GoDot Engine. Though there are a bunch of free options announced during the GDC this year, i thought ill' contribute to the engine. The one piece that is most important for game dev is the pipeline for the engine. One of the most common tools used for 2D animations is Flash. I have been using a library called Super Animation for almost all the games we've made for android at TMG. It's a free tool which lets you convert swf files to .sam files. This file can then be loaded in Cocos2Dx using the Open source loader library https://github.com/raymondlu/super-animation-samples I thought it would be a good idea to port this cpp library to GoDot so that i understand how to write custom modules for the engine. This is the video of the module in action. I have expos...

Vehicle Physics (Godot 2D)

I've always been fascinated with the vehicle physics used in games. I played so many racing games / the hill climb games and every single time i would wonder wow that must be really hard to do. Thanks to the new generation of game development tools, developing physics based games has become almost a second nature to most people. I didn't want to be left out so i gave it a shot.. I tried setting up vehicle physics in GoDot Engine for a 2D vehicle. Here is what the vehicle scene looks like.. 2D vehicle setup in GoDot As you can see the body collision shape is not right but the rest of the stuff just works. The idea is simple think of what parts move along with the body vs what doesn't. I was kinda stuck setting up the pinJoint2D in GoDot, it actually clearly takes two nodes under the properties. This makes sure that the wheels are hinged to the DampingSpring2D. The Damping Spring2D takes two physics bodies(Body and the PinJoint2D) and makes it work like shock ab...

Gif Animation in Gimp

Ever wondered how to make a gif animation using gimp?? Hmm ofcourse you did.. well even if you did not.. it would be good to know how simple gif animations can be made in this Free image editing software. Here is a sample of what can be achieved. Yes it looks crude.. but i made it in less than 20mins.. so i guess its valid :) any way.. coming to how we do it.. open gimp, create a new image, press ctrl+l this will bring up the layers dialog. In this layers dialog you are provided options to create delete, move the layers. So keep adding layers, each with the next image in the animation sequence. Want to check how your animation looks?? go to filters->animation->playback this will launch a dialog box which has playback, rewind and step buttons on it. Click on playback button and you will see how your animation looks. Satisfied?? just save the animation with an extension ".gif" ..you have to note that while saving you will be asked if you want the different layers to be mr...

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