Da Blenda
Title Screen
This is the title screen. We never really updated it beyond the tutorial we started with. That wasn't our focus. We'd have gotten to it later if we hadn't stopped in our efforts after we all moved away from each other.
Game Start - Debug World
Here is where the player starts. This world is not complete. It uses placeholder assets as well as temporary level design. It was intended as debugging for us.
Items
Here you can see the debug starting items for the player. A cool feature can be seen between the slides here. The player, being a blender, can blend items together to make new ones. Look at the next slide for smoothes created out of the ingredients here.
More Items
Here you can see more items. These items were made by combining previous items through crafting. They offer enhanced effectsfor the player when used.
Combat 1
This is an image of combat. The game is turn-based. The cherry's turn has just ended and as you can see he has attacked the player at range.
Combat 2
This is another image of combat. The player's turn has just ended and you can see the player has damaged a nearby enemy.
Overworld Edge
This is the opposite corner of our debug world, where spawner plants are spawning blueberry enemies for the player to endlessly battle.
Project Tech/Algorithms
- C#
- XNA
- Visual Basic
Extended Details
This was the insipring project for me. This is the one that got away. This is how I found my love for game development. It means very much to me, even though the game may never be finished.
I remember the whole plot of the story. We wrote 40 pages of content that we wanted in our game. I remember how it started and developed. I remember meeting up with the whole team of friends every Saturday for years to talk about this game we wanted to make. I remember getting and losing team members, I remember just how invested I was in making this game. I remember that I found the time to read 7 books on programming. All before college, because I wanted to learn. I remember doing every programming exercise in the books to learn as much as I could. I remember starting over on the game more than once. I remember watching free programming tutorial videos on the internet. I remember being proud of this game. Of every feature we added. I remember all the placeholder content, our funniest bugs, our plans for it, our hopes and dreams.
This is the game I remember in terms of what we wanted it to be rather than what it was. This is the game I think of in terms of content rather than in terms of technology. If you want to know about the technology, well, we used XNA and Visual Basic at first, and then started re-writing it in C# with XNA. We gave up when we realized we weren't going to finish before we all moved to different states for college. At it's largest, it had around 20,000 lines of code, 12,000 for the game and 8,000 for the map editor. We were self-taught, so those lines are probably not the highest quality lines and could have been refactored massively. We realized this, hence the partial re-write.
This game may never be finished, but it is full of nostalgia and learning experiences for me. I remember learning pathfinding, fixing bugs where enemy movement speeds were accidentally set to zero, figuring out what recursion is by accident after our first 'stack overflow.'
But more than that I learned that I want to make games. I learned I could have so much fun designing and programming games, even if game sound effects and art assets aren't my strongsuit. It is because of this, because working on this game was the most passionate I've ever been about anything at all ever, that I know in my mind I am destined to be a game developer. If it weren't for this project, I'd be miserable at some other college. Instead, I'm happily preparing myself for my dream job while maintaining a 4.0 working with software development - where I'm happiest.
Most of the art assets are placeholder. We planned to replace them all. I believe our placeholder assets originated from OpenGameArt.org. We do not claim them as our own. They would not have been shipped with the game if we had finished it. The sound assets (cannot be seen) were actually made by a member of the team with some serious musical talent. Go him.
We implemented many features that can't be shown effectively here, such as procedural battle map generation, a full-fledged map editor, more weather particle effects, multiple difficulties, a credits screen and much more.
Project Credits
Justin Furtado (Me) - More Projects By Me