Asteroids Plus 2.0

Devlog

• Asteroids Plus 2.0 - Milestone 19– Updating to Peasy-physics
  May 17, 2023 by Mookie

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  ##devlog, ##indie, ##gamedev, #physics, #collisions, #entities

  This was a challenging milestone. My goal for this entry is to review the process I took to migrate form my own homegrown ‘physics’ if we want to call it that, to peasy-physics. Peasy-physics is c... Continue reading

  
• Asteroids Plus 2.0 - Milestone 18– Adding the enemy AI
  May 12, 2023 by Mookie

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  #AI, #devlog, #enemyAI, #statemachine, #indie, #indiedev

  Let’s discuss something that I’ve never even remotely attempted before, Artificial Intelligence (AI). One of the things that I’d like to take a stab at in this project is to code up an enemy shi... Continue reading

  
• Asteroids Plus 2.0 - Milestone 17 dynamic background Part 2
  May 06, 2023 by Mookie

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  #longpost, #devlog, #canvas, #html, #gamedev, #indie

  This is Part 2 of this article, Link to Part 1 : Part1 ... If you recall, each star object in the particle system had a R property, and a position property(x,y) associated with it. Canvas and Pixel Ma... Continue reading

  
• Asteroids Plus 2.0 - Milestone 17 - Dynamic Background Part 1
  May 06, 2023 by Mookie

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  #html, #canvas, #pixels, #devlog, #indie, #indiegamedev, #gamedev, #Perlin, #Simplex, #Noise, #Brownian

  This post is broken into 2 Parts, this is Part 1 This is one of the biggest updates not only in the game but in my approach to game development. The goal of this step is to replace the ‘space’ bac... Continue reading

  
• Asteroids Plus 2.0 - Milestone 16 - Audio
  May 01, 2023 by Mookie

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  #howler.js, #game audio, #audio, #gamedev, #indie, #indiedev, #devlog

  This is going to be a shorter post. I’ve gotten to the point on the punch list where I had to address the sounds and audio of the game. I have all the same audio files as last time I made this game... Continue reading

  
• Asteroids Plus 2.0 - Milestone 15 - Mobile Debugging
  April 25, 2023 by Mookie

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  #devlog, #indie, #mobile, #touch, #gamedev

  This was a bit more of a chaotic, less focused push. There were several bugs that I wanted to work through, and it took me a couple days to nail them down. The first item to address was that the touch... Continue reading

  
• Asteroids Plus 2.0 - Milestone 14 - Heads Up Display
  April 20, 2023 by Mookie

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  #HUD, #devlog, #indie, #indiegamedev, #asteroids, #gamedev

  This is a big entry and feature. According to my plan, this is what I’m slated to hash out for my HUD. So, I’ve set about to start hashing in all these visual elements. Starting with the Health Ba... Continue reading

  
• Asteroids Plus 2.0 - Milestone 13, light housekeeping, spawning, HUD data, health/lives, progressive difficulty…
  April 15, 2023 by Mookie

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  #indie, #indiedev, #devlog, #gamedev, #asteroids, #spaceshooter, #typescript

  I started dabbling in peasy-lighting, and there are some kinks to work out before porting over into the game. As I do, I created a separate project to play with that library. We will pick that back up... Continue reading

  
• Asteroids Plus 2.0 - Milestone 12– collisions, the bane of my existence
  April 10, 2023 by Mookie

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  #devlog, #collisions, #physics, #resolution, #asteroids, #spaceshooter, #indie, #indiedev

  So, this is where I failed a few years ago. Not misunderstanding collisions… not detecting collisions… Resolving collisions… I could not figure it out. I found this fantastic walk-through regard... Continue reading

  
• Asteroids Plus 2.0 - Milestone 11– bullet hell…
  April 03, 2023 by Mookie#asteroids, #devlog, #gamedev, #bullets, #entities, #indie, #indiegamedev

  So, I have my asteroid entities and my ship (player) entity. Next entity for development is going to be the bullets that fire out of the player’s ship. The bullets will need to be sized with respect... Continue reading

  
• Milestone 10– adding asteroid textures and sprite animations
  March 30, 2023 by Mookie#devlog, #gamedev, #indiedev, #spritesheet, #animations, #spaceshooter, #texture, #asteroids

  So now I want to add the sprite animation to the asteroids, so they aren’t just white boxes floating around. I struggled apply the textures in the same manner as the spacecraft, because it’s a lar... Continue reading

  
• Milestone 9: Entity update routines, wiring up systems to components
  March 23, 2023 by Mookie#devlog, #gamedev, #indiedev, #ECS, #physics, #youtube

  Short post update today... So now the process has started for going into each entity’s update method and wiring up some systems. Namely to get started I targeted the movement systems of navigation w... Continue reading
• Milestone 8 – Keyboard (Peasy-input) and Touch Controls
  March 18, 2023 by Mookie#indiedev, #gamedev, #devlog, #mobile, #keyboard input, #controls

  My first thought was to go find a joystick library, there are several that I’ve used before. I made some small, weak attempts of slapping a joystick library in the code base and I found it not that... Continue reading

  
• Milestone 7 – Entities, Components, Systems (ECS)
  March 12, 2023 by Mookie#ECS, #Entity, #Component, #System, #gamedev, #Indie, #devlog

  ECS, which stands for Entities, Components, and Systems, is a game framework that allows for a game loop to iterate over a group of game objects(entities), of which these objects have associated prope... Continue reading

  
• Milestone 6 - Peasy-UI and Fixed Step Engine
  March 08, 2023 by Mookie

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  #gamedev, #devlog, #UI, #FSE, #fixed step engine

  Peasy-UI One of the key libraries that I’ve been using lately in my projects is Peasy-UI. It is a small and simple UI binding library. Essentially, you can create a template html framework, and bind... Continue reading

  
• Milestone 5 –Game States
  March 02, 2023 by Mookie

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  #statemachine, #game states, #devlog, #game dev, #indie dev, #indiedev

  I borrowed a state machine library from a friend. At its core, its straightforward: you have state classes that have enter and exit methods. The state machine class itself is an approach that I haven... Continue reading

  
• Milestone 4 –Unit Tests
  February 24, 2023 by Mookie#TDD, #testing, #JEST, #gamedev, #indiedev

  I’ve never really done unit testing. I don’t know a ton about it. I understand the overarching concepts of it. I understand the distinction between Unit tests, integration tests, and E2E testing... Continue reading

  
• Milestone 3 - Responsiveness
  February 18, 2023 by Mookie#gamedev, #css, #responsive, #mobile, #discord

  One of the concepts I want to exercise for this game journey is a mobile first perspective. I’ve NEVER done that approach before and haven’t successfully created a game with a good mobile experien... Continue reading

  
• Milestone 2 – My planning process
  January 06, 2023 by Mookie#gamedev, #planning, #devlog, #wireframe

  So, this entry will address my approach to planning. Keep in mind, I’ve already planned this game once, coded and tested, and already have a deployment for this game. So, I didn’t have to grind an... Continue reading

  
• Milestone 1 – Deciding to make a game
  January 03, 2023 by Mookie##planning, ##gamedev, ##indie, ##devlog

  So, my first dev log topic will cover the planning process for my game. I have already created an Asteroids based, space shooter in Godot and JS… I was developing both in tandem essentially because... Continue reading