Scrolling Game Development Kit Forum

After about a year and a 1/2 hiatus, I'm finally starting back on this project....again! This time, however, I will be using XNA rather than SGDK 1 or 2. (Although, I'm thinking of porting it once I finish.) I'll continue the rest of this thread on the "Game Development Artistry" thread and I may also start a blogspot to post updates on rather than bugging you guys every week with only one or 2 minor changes (I was just looking back at all the previous posts and gosh was I so stupid then...).

I've shown this game and/or story to other students and teachers at my college and have gotten many positive results back from them. I really think this game just might succeed in the industry sometime in the future. I hope this game will be available for download on major consoles like WiiWare, XBLA, or PSN (Of course, I'll have better graphics by then).

I just wanted to say thanks for all the help over the years and for supporting me the whole time. I probably would have never gotten into game design without SGDK instead of continuing my writing of Mario fan fiction (no joke...). This isn't goodbye, however, I still will drop by every once in a while to see how everything's coming.

With love, hatred, and respect,
Joel Green
aka SmartBoy16

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV-AFnCkRLY

This guy shows how he made an entire game using JAVA.

Tip: view in Original Quality (in full screen) and you can see the actual coding (provided that your monitor is not 640x480) :educated:

  :laugh: I think this is clever. The only downside (think) is that someone may try to hack into the system to figure out which picture is represented for what. I'm just saying...

Why not just link directly to XKCD?

That was kind of the point of making many redirects. (this just happens to be the last part of a 30-page long chain of redirects....ok not really)

They did something similar on Kirby Epic Yarn.

As many of you know, E3 2010 started today. What are you guys anxious about this year?

Personally, I'm most anxious for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and the Nintendo3DS. For Zelda, I have been a huge Zelda fan for a while now, and this new one supports the use of the Wii Motion Plus for not only combat, but also quickly switching from one item to the next. The graphics are also cell shaded a lot like Wind Waker. For the 3DS, I'm not anxious about how the 3D graphics help perfect gameplay, but also some of it's other features such as the motion sensor which can be useful for FPS games and the analog pad to perfect 360 movement. Also, they are planning to remake Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the 3DS with all new graphics. To be honest, I'm veeery excited for E3 this year!!!  :canadian: :canadian: :surprise: :ugly: :yes: :yes: :yes:

Alrighty, I am (officially) back with a few question!!! *insert fanfare here*

Ok, so, there is a certain way that I want to handle control here. I want it to be able to be played on a Gamepad and I am having a few issuses on how Buttons are detected.

Basically, I want the game to be able to determine whether a certain button is being pressed or not being pressed. (Similar to VC#'s KeyUp, KeyDown)

As I noticed that the basic functions can only tell when a key is just pressed once, I decided to use the dreaded helpful scripting to accomplish this. So far: i came up with this code:


Dim Btn1, Btn2, Btn3, Btn4
Dim DirU, DirD, DirL, DirR

Sub Player_OnBeforeMoveSprite()
ProjectObj.GamePlayer.PollJoystick 0
If ProjectObj.GamePlayer.JoyButton1 = True Then
Btn1 = True
ProjectObj.GamePlayer.InvQuantityOwned(0) = 2
Else
Btn1 = False
ProjectObj.GamePlayer.InvQuantityOwned(0) = 1
End If
End Sub

And so far, as many of you probably guessed, nothing showed up. Am I doing this right, or is there a better way of doing this?