Last summer I finished Ronny Runs Around Robots a robot shooting game and I had a break in development of other projects. I turned my attention to Gavin's Quest and I really wanted to make some good improvements to the game.
The first thing I worked on was making the game full screen 100% and that meant I had to get the lighting elements working 100% when transitioning from rune solving and back to combat. I spent a better part of a couple weeks just to get the game to work between the transitions alone.
Then the fun part was to get the rune solving element to not have the annoying popup windows. Now one can solve the puzzles by entering your guess in the dialogue by the rune.
The next thing I worked on was adding game control support for the game. Gavin's Quest has spell casting , switching weapons and archery skills. Putting all these elements to work on the game controller took some work and I'm pleased to have that all working good.
Using your Xbox 360 controller and or Gravis game controller one can make Gavin move using the game pad buttons. Shooting an arrow is simply done by using right shoulder button. The top right shoulder button when held during moving is charge. The left shoulder button is block.
The "A" and "B" buttons switch Gavin between axe and hammer. The "X" key casts the heal spell if you have the scroll. This is the most used spell in the game. The "Y" key when pressed brings up the rest of the spells. You scroll through them using the bottom right shoulder button and cast the chosen spell with the top shoulder button.
All these improvements make Gavin's Quest a much better game. I am taking the next while to spend promoting my games as I usually like to take the summer off from programming. The demo has been updated recently as well the game is on a bundle sale for the summer along with my other big games.
