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Something With Text - Computer Game in Processing
« on: January 03, 2013, 05:14:53 pm »
I just started a new computer game project. I'm writing it in Processing, which is basically Java with an extra layer to get you up and running quickly, and a few tools (color picker, font creator, blah blah blah) and a compiler thing for porting to pretty much any OS, which is nice.

Anyways, I have simple game mechanics set up - a character who can move around and jump - and right now I'm working on tilemap design. This whole thing is basically an exercise in visual design for me, something that's not really my strength. I spent a couple hours the other day setting up a tile editor and like twenty different tiles.

Here's a picture showcasing the tiles I have so far.



As you can see they're all basically glassy, somewhat generic, rounded rectangles. I may or may not get rid of some of them later but I'm being careful to avoid abusing my rounded rectangle privileges.

The working tile is Something With Text, definitely subject to change in the relatively near future, depending on how soon I can think of a better name (or someone suggests a better name to me).
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Re: Something With Text - Computer Game in Processing
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2013, 05:20:15 pm »
Looks nice :) I've use Processing once (it still floats around on my old HDD) but never really did anything with it, I'm now just plain Java. What's the game going to be about? It looks like some sort of puzzle/adventure mix (which can be really awesome).

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Re: Re: Something With Text - Computer Game in Processing
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2013, 05:27:45 pm »
Looks good, I have used processing quite a lot to communicate with my arduino, since processing makes serial com a joke :) now, what are you planning on making out of this? I don't really see a connection between the name and tiles, so what is it that i'm missing? Apart from that, nice. Are those blocks gradiented rects? Or are they images?

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Re: Something With Text - Computer Game in Processing
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2013, 05:48:32 pm »
What's the game going to be about? It looks like some sort of puzzle/adventure mix (which can be really awesome).

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm thinking. I can't reveal a lot of details, partly because I haven't give that a whole lot of thought, but partly because the ideas I do have, I want to be good and well thought out before I present them. So more details to come, maybe in a week or so.

I don't really see a connection between the name and tiles, so what is it that i'm missing? Apart from that, nice. Are those blocks gradiented rects? Or are they images?

It has to do with the main character. That's pretty much all I can tell you. The tiles are gradiented rects, but they're saved in an image - my tiling engine extracts tiles from a like 400x400 png spritesheet. Basically, I got a big spritesheet of gradiented rounded rectangles, and screwed around with a TON of bucket fill settings in the GIMP.
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Re: Something With Text - Computer Game in Processing
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2013, 11:35:57 pm »
I'm a little late but this looks very cool and glad to see some computer stuff from you :). Do you think you could add background tiles or something so it isn't just plain white? It would be consistent with the other graphics for sure :)

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Re: Something With Text - Computer Game in Processing
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2013, 10:29:28 pm »
Whoops, this kinda died. I'm jumping around like crazy these ideas. My apologies, but I wouldn't expect to see a finished project from me any time soon. :P
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Re: Something With Text - Computer Game in Processing
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2013, 12:25:49 am »
Well you finished Spacky Enterprise and a few other calc games at least :P. Hopefully you can manage to finish other projects (and post about them here) in the future, though. :P

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Re: Something With Text - Computer Game in Processing
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2013, 05:05:17 am »
Looks nice man.
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