The Archer Windows game

6 comments by GabrielVerdon on Oct 21st, 2011

Hello! Today I bring you the fourth weekly devlog video for The Archer.

Here is the summary of the things I worked on over the past two weeks:

• Started working on animations for a new enemy: BIRDS.
• Tried out four different colour variations.
• Made bomb arrows that hit enemies explode in mid-air, and made explosions destroy arrows in mid air.
• Worked on interface code a quite bit, making it more readable and dynamic for different resolutions.
• Redid the options screen.
• Added an ini file which the game reads when it starts.
• Did a bunch of work on handling different resolutions.
• Added ini file writing when options are changed.
• Game now shows logo the first time the game is run, and doesn't on subsequent runs.
• Creates a default ini file if there is none there.
• Started working on giant (rideable) birds.
• Woop! Made mounts children of o_character, so they can act independently and then be mounted by the player at any time, and then they become the new keyboard input target.
• Made a page of notes planning out the next few enemies I want to make.
• Started integrating a new sound dll.
• Started working on human enemies. They will be able to have different clothing and weapons.
• Started working on t-shirt designs.
• Made some more progress on the website.
• Added a movement behaviour for castle crasher style pets.
• Did some reformatting on the website, and got a big chunk of the art done.
• Added axe throwers and drummers.
• Started working on mounted enemies.
• Did some work on enemy animation and ai.
• Made a depth list to keep track of what objects need to be drawn in what order.
• Worked some more on the website.
• Started working on a template for human characters.
• Started working on clothing for the template.
• Did some work on the village.
• Made a couple of mockups for the next parts of the game I want to work on.
• Started collecting massive amount of inspiration and reference material, something I've been slacking on.
• Added a bunch of debug drawing functionality for enemy ai and blocks.
• Added buttons to the debug mode for hiding tile layers and opening debug console. Done for now, but will add more as I need to.
• Restructured tilesets a little bit.
• Redid arrow movement so that I can compensate for the player's velocity.
• Added arrow impaling to all characters (player, advanced enemies, and mounts).
• Added more debug drawing and separated explosions into 3 different sizes.
• Added a map room with a placeholder map.
• Added a new spark effect.
• Played around with some cloth physics, and the new sound dll working.
• Switched sound dll from SG Audio to supersound.
• Got the map scrolling to the mouse.
• Added some more debug drawing to player and enemies.
• CLUSTERBOMBS.
• Added some preliminary acid cloud effects, no collision yet though.
• Added cloth flags to flying mounts.
• Added preliminary lightning arrows, which track the three nearest enemies. Also added in a script from the internet, instance_nth_nearest.
• Started working on "chain" enemies.

You can check the links below for more information about the game. I'll see you next week!

-Gabe

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