My First Game

This week there is some bad news and some good news, and I'll start with the bad. I'm putting The Pyromancer on stand by for now. Honestly I'm just not enjoying writing it anymore and I've only got myself to blame. I planned it too much and I ended up not getting the content built up quick enough and I'm pretty burnt out (heh) with the whole project so I'm putting it to one side while I work on other things. I may go back to it at some point but no promises. 

Speaking of working on other things. I've made my first game! I based it off of the one Pentadact (Tom Francis) has been building in his tutorials, but I've gone off the rails to add a few features I like and learn other neat things, like sprite replacements on cross-hairs so you can tell who is an enemy. Neat stuff. The game itself is a real simple top down shooter with a power-up, gradual difficulty and a few enemy types. Nothing fancy but I'd like to think it's fun to play.

Dog Fights on a BBQ (I DIDN'T CHOOSE THE NAME):

The aim of the game is to get your score to 5000. Your score is increased by collecting ship parts (floaty blue things) and destroying enemy ships (reddish, gray things). Getting hurt makes your ship smaller, and if it gets too small it will explode! Don't worry though, your ship will rebuild itself if you have 500 points to spare. Each blast you fire also costs you 1 point so be careful. If you hit 0 points you lose the game and should probably try again. Any other tips are in the intro screen of the game itself.

Here is a Direct Download Link that'll download the .exe to install the game. If you use a mac I'm not sure that you can play it and I'm not sure how to get it to you. I am new to all of this so bear with. Oh and I'd really appreciate feedback for this, if you have any, and I don't mind where you throw it. Twitter would be best for me because it'd keep it in small bits but wherever you put it it'll be fine as long as I can see it.

In other news I've began creating characters based on my room-mates. I plan on getting all the generic bios created by next week where I'll post them on here for feedback. It's actually been a really fun process so far, with myself essentially asking market research questions and seeing what I can find out about my friends that could make them into interesting characters. I only have 1 completed so far but I've certainly had a lot of fun with it and I hope the others have too.

I'm not going to recommend anything this week for two reasons. Firstly I've been really busy with Uni and getting this game presentable by today. Secondly I've pretty much been playing the same games, and watching he same shows, apart from one which I'll finish this week and talk about next week, and listening to the same music. So honestly there isn't anything I want to talk about this week. So that's that I guess.

-Beau

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