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Started work on the new Rupert’s Zombie Diary game awhile...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:53:00 +0800

Started work on the new Rupert’s Zombie Diary game awhile ago. Added a bunch of stuff, some of which is shown in the video above (new enemies, special weapons, etc).

Someone mentioned the AI movement (especially in the Chickens) didn’t look right. Before (in the video above) they just moved up if the player was higher and down if they was lower and they should be ‘approaching’ the player instead. So I had a crack at fixing that and will work on making it work right with other enemy types (ones that are a bit more complicated than the Zombie Chickens). Here is the result of that:

Firefight is now out on Kongregate. It includes integration with...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:25:00 +0800

Firefight is now out on Kongregate. It includes integration with their API (leaderboards and possibility of achievements) and a few interface changes (which is now also in the Newgrounds version).

Play it here.
What’s new in the Kongregate Update:
- Kongregate Leaderboards/Statistics integration
- Shop interface improvements
- Slight tweaks to the Global Leaderboard interface
- Can now have 2 control customisations at the same time
- Enemies and other entities are now exported as bitmaps which will hopefully improve performance a little bit
- Fixed glitch when skipping splash screens

I’ll probably do the same for Alien Hominid Xtreme and release that in a couple of weeks. Rupert’s Zombie Diary was going to be the first to be added to Kongregate but there were problems with the project file. So instead we are working on Rupert’s Zombie Diary: Special Edition. This will use the new art assets (plus more) that we were using for the sequel that kind of got put on hiatus. It will remade using the same engine as our game “Hell Games” and apart from the new look it will also feature more weapons, mini-bosses, flying heads/arms/guts and more.

I did a bit of work on my game demake (for that little Facepunch...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:49:00 +0800

I did a bit of work on my game demake (for that little Facepunch programming competition) after not doing anything on it for awhile. As you can see it now got a bit of a low-bit graphics thing going on. Was too lazy to try and make any sprites.

You can play what I have so far here: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/409aa1201e419c0b470a500babe3281f

To go along with the pixelated ‘filter’ I also made some sound effects with Bfxr (shooting, jumping, landing, grapple hook and projectile collision sound effects). To make fighting the AI more enjoyable I simply made them move to your last known location and to mix it up a bit I made them, you and projectiles to be random colours. I improved the entity collision a bit too, allowing entities to land and move on top of others (still a bit buggy for the AI though as you can tell by the end of the video).

I was originally going to make a Just Cause demake but I’m contemplating about doing something else. Maybe a 2D Mount & Blade, can just take what I have now, remove the guns, add horses, a map view and some battle/siege levels.

I was thinking of making a Just Cause 2 demake for a little game...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:05:00 +0800

I was thinking of making a Just Cause 2 demake for a little game demake competition that’s going on in the programming forum I visit. But I first wanted to make sure I could make the grapple hook and parachute work and fun in a 2D environment. So I made and added them to the current flash game I’ve been working on. They are still a bit buggy and need some tweaking to get it to play more like it does in Just Cause 2 but it doesn’t seem that bad so far.

I also had to add support to my Camera class to allow for zooming because it would be hard to use the grapple hook if you couldn’t see that much (in the video the ‘camera’ is a 0.5 scale). I improved my raycasting function as well so it returns the collision point instead of just a boolean, mainly so the grappling hook would hook into the sides of a tile rather than a random place inside it. This also means all projectile weapons have better level collision now, which is nice.

AS3 Developer Console v1.08 A new version of my AS3 Developer...

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:24:00 +0800

AS3 Developer Console v1.08

A new version of my AS3 Developer Console is now out!
I finally got around to fixing these problems I’ve been finding. If you’re wondering what happen to v1.07, that was the version of the console that was included in my game Firefight. It wasn’t that different from v1.06 so I never released it.

Google Code - GitHub

v1.08 - (26/06/2012)

Temporary Variables. When assigning a variable that doesn’t exist a temporary variable will be made that can be used through the console (can be turned off)
Added option for slide open/close animation (on by default)
When creating new instances you can now pass arguments to the constructor (eg: new flash.geom.Point(5,2))
Objects returned from functions can now have their members accessed (eg: getChildAt(0).x)
Multidimensional Arrays are now supported (up to 3D, but can be modified easily to support more) (eg: level[0][0])
Tracing fps now works properly in certain circumstances (wouldn’t work if it couldn’t access the console from the main class before)
Input text box now removes ` characters when typed (useful if you use the ` key to toggle the console)
Whenever a NaN value is attempted to be assigned to a Number variable a warning is printed to the console and the value is not assigned
Echo, error and warn functions can now take multiple arguments (will separate them with spaces)
- If the last argument in echo() is a string with the # character in front it will use that as the colour of the echo (eg: echo(1, 2, 3, “#00FF00”))

Variable “opened” is now private, use function “isOpen()” instead
tracerOneCiclePerLine is now true by default
Changed some default text colours
Changed default font to “Courier New” (from “Arial”)

Quick Update to Firefight

I also quickly updated Firefight on Newgrounds to include this new version.
Now that you can pass arguments to constructors and create temporary variables you can do this to create a new weapon:


rifle = new classes.weapons.assaultrifle(this,char);

char.wep.push(rifle);

rifle.displayName = "Super Assault Rifle";

rifle.weaponModelId = 4;


rifle.upgrade(3);

rifle.shootGap = 5;

rifle.bulletSpeed = 14;

rifle.damage = 18;

rifle.spread = 10;

rifle.bulletCount = 3;

rifle.maxHitCount = 1;

rifle.accurateBursts = false;

rifle.infiniteAmmo = true;


rifle.useExplosion = true;

rifle.explosionAnimations = [fx_explosion1];

rifle.explosionDamage = 10;


rifle.bulletFilter = new flash.filters.GlowFilter(0xFF0000,1,10,10,8);

rifle.soundEffects[0] = mp3_sniper;

Instead of the old way:


char.wep.push(new classes.weapons.assaultrifle(this,char));

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].displayName = "Super Assault Rifle";

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].weaponModelId = 4;


char.wep[char.wep.length-1].upgrade(3);

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].shootGap = 5;

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].bulletSpeed = 14;

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].damage = 18;

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].spread = 10;

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].bulletCount = 3;

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].maxHitCount = 1;

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].accurateBursts = false;

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].infiniteAmmo = true;


char.wep[char.wep.length-1].useExplosion = true;

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].explosionAnimations = [fx_explosion1];

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].explosionDamage = 10;


char.wep[char.wep.length-1].bulletFilter = new flash.filters.GlowFilter(0xFF0000,1,10,10,8);

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].soundEffects[0] = mp3_sniper;

Upcoming Hell Games Dev Blog

Soon I should be doing a Dev Blog for our Scimitar Games YouTube Channel talking about what I’ve been working on with our upcoming game “Hell Games”. Since we’re planning on releasing this one with the Developer Console (just like with Firefight), i’ll show off some stuff you can do with it.

Edit: Dev Blog is up now.

Our game for Pico Day 2012 on Newgrounds.com has been released!....

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:24:48 +0800

Our game for Pico Day 2012 on Newgrounds.com has been released!. It’s an Alien Hominid tribute called Alien Hominid Xtreme!

You can go play it here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/594607

Firefight Update 1

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:53:07 +0800

- New Save System, you can now have a save for both game modes.
- Fixed a problem where the game couldn’t tell it was on Newgrounds (why the Medals didn’t work)
- Small changes to the Leaderboard page
- Made the Leaderboard’s At column display “uploads.ungrounded.net” as “www.newgrounds.com”
- Removed the two (rarely said) enemy voice clips
- Fixed landmines not removing on level reset

Update is now live on Newgrounds.

Firefight is now out! You can go play it over at our Sponsors...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:47:00 +0800

Firefight is now out! You can go play it over at our Sponsors website.

It’ll be coming to Newgrounds soon with 30 different Medals :D.

Edit: It is now out on Newgrounds!

Cool stuff you can do with Firefight's Console

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:36:00 +0800

I included my Developer Console in the release of Firefight. So I thought i’ll make a post explaining some of the cool stuff you can do with it.

Usage Tips

When using the console you can use the up and down arrow keys to go between your last used commands.
If the suggestion box is showing; pressing up/down will toggle between them (so you don’t have to type the whole thing).
Type help for more information.

Cheats
You can use some of the cheat functions I put in.


cheat_giveXP(10000);

cheat_toggleGodMode();

cheat_allBuildings(3);

cheat_allUpgrades(3);

cheat_allWeapons(3);

cheat_spawnTruck();

For the all buildings, upgrades and weapons functions you can change that 3 to whatever level you want all of them to be (but 3 would be the best as that’s the highest level).

Faster Days
Make the days go faster by simply changing this value (in milliseconds)

daylength = 60000;

Enemys Spawning
Using the npcManager you can make the enemies spawn faster or change the spawn rates of the different types.


npcManager.spawnTimer.delay = 1000;

npcManager.spawnRates = [0,0,0,100];

That first line will make enemies spawn every second and that other one makes it so they have 100% chance of being Minigunners.

Enemys Stats
You can also change stats of the enemy types.


npcManager.enemy_health[0] = 10;

npcManager.enemy_guns[0] = classes.weapons.assaultrifle;

First line will make pistol enemies start with only have 10 health and the second will will make it so they use Assault Rifles.

Modifying your Weapons
There are loads of different things you can change to modify your weapons.


char.gun_pistol.automatic = true;

char.gun_pistol.infiniteAmmo = true;

char.gun_pistol.damage = 40;

I’m sure you can tell what that will do.

You can add new weapons to your inventory as well.


char.wep.push(new classes.weapons.shotgun(this,char));

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].displayName = "My Shotgun";


char.wep[char.wep.length-1].shootGap = 300;

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].bulletCount = 6;

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].infiniteAmmo = true;


char.wep[char.wep.length-1].bulletFilter = new flash.filters.GlowFilter(0xFFFF00,1,10,10,5);

char.wep[char.wep.length-1].soundEffects = new Array(mp3_death1, mp3_death2);

List of Usable Resources

Weapons

classes.weapons.assaultrifle
classes.weapons.crossbow
classes.weapons.machinegun
classes.weapons.pistol
classes.weapons.revolver
classes.weapons.shotgun
classes.weapons.smg
classes.weapons.sniperrifle
classes.weapons.superlaser
classes.weapons.tornadogun
classes.weapons.npc_pistol
classes.weapons.npc_shotgun
classes.weapons.npc_smg
classes.weapons.burst_sentry
classes.weapons.machinegun_sentry
classes.weapons.missilelauncher_sentry

Sounds

mp3_death1
mp3_death2
mp3_death3
mp3_death4
mp3_heal
mp3_truck_idle
mp3_truck_loop
mp3_voice_killhim
mp3_voice_overthere
mp3_crossbow1
mp3_crossbow2
mp3_emp
mp3_explosion1
mp3_explosion2
mp3_laser
mp3_laserloop
mp3_pistol
mp3_reload
mp3_revolver
mp3_rifle
mp3_shotgun
mp3_smg
mp3_sniper

Graphics

fx_explosion1
fx_explosion2
fx_spark
fx_bloodsplat
model_supplies
model_dogtag
model_rico
model_truck
model_enemy_pistol
model_enemy_smg
model_enemy_shotgun
model_enemy_gunner
model_buildGhost
model_landmine
model_sentry_base
model_sentry_burst
model_sentry_machinegun
model_sentry_missile
model_helicopter
model_helicopter_top

There is a lot more you could do with the console but I’ll leave that to you to find out.

Here’s a little thing I put together that will turn you into a Minigunner (just paste it into your console):


char.removeChild(char.model);

char.model = new model_enemy_gunner();

char.addChild(char.model);

char.model.head.gotoAndStop(1);

char.model.gun.gotoAndStop(1);

char.updateBSP(char.model.bsp.x,char.model.bsp.y);


char.wep = new Array(new classes.weapons.machinegun(this,char));

char.changeWeapon(0);

Made the Pedestrians spawn every 10 milliseconds, mayhem ensued....

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:55:49 +0800

Made the Pedestrians spawn every 10 milliseconds, mayhem ensued. Though still a pretty decent FPS :D
Still trying to get the physics for the pedestrians right.

(Game I’m working on for Pico Day 2012 on Newgrounds.com)

Random News Update

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:03:00 +0800

New Domain

I just got a domain for my site! torrunt.net. I also fixed up the games page to it just says “domain/games” rather then “domain/private/1237498asdihoas” or whatever.

Scimitar Games

A website for Scimitar Games should be launching soon at scimitargames.net. Scimitar games is the name of our Flash Game Development group. Doodlebin / Tyler as the Artist, MDKSound / Morgan as the Musician / Sound Technician and me as the Programmer.

Pico Day 2012

Doodlebin and I are planning on doing another game for Pico Day on Newgrounds.com this year; this time focusing on Alien Hominid. Nothing to show yet but i might post some sneak peaks later.

Here’s the game’s we made the previous years:

	Newgrounds: Retaliation Newgrounds Pico Day 2011
	INSERT COIN: Pico N’ Me Newgrounds Pico Day 2010

Firefight

The flash game Shoot Out I was working on ages ago has changed it’s name to “Firefight” and should be coming out soon. I was messing around with it a couple of days ago as well, tweaking the options menu and some of the GUI.

Rupert's Zombie Diary Update v1.3

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:00:30 +0800

Yet another update to Rupert’s Zombie Diary. Newgrounds Edition only at the moment.

- Fixed bug where you could buy skills without having their prerequisites
- Fixed up Medal: “Legend” (To obtain: Finish the game without ever starting an area without Nightmare mode on. If you already have just clear game data under options and relaunch the game)
- Fixed glitch with shooting and killing zombies that have been knocked to the ground
- Fixed bug where you could damage the Wizard while he’s in the air vulnerable with kicks and zombie heads
- Fixed problem with the “Most Kills (in a day)” scoreboard where it let people submit scores for endless rounds
- Added new scoreboard called “Total Kills”
- Modified the way the Ammo display is updated in hopes of fixing it’s glitch
- Made the gun icon on the HUD change depending on what weapon you have out

Rupert's Zombie Diary Update v1.2

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:41:00 +0800

Just did a quick update to Rupert’s Zombie Diary (Newgrounds.com version only at the moment).

- Fixed Medals: Wipe Out, Wipe Out Nightmare, ALL THE SKILLS, GIVE EM’ THE BOOT, Dodging Fish and That wasn’t so hard
- Fixed problem where keys weren’t releasing properly
- Fixed bug where the Wizard could disapear off the map when charging

Rupert's Zombie Diary: Newgrounds Edition Released

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:07:00 +0800

The Newgrounds Edition of Rupert’s Zombie Diary is now out!

Play Now!
This version includes 40 Newgrounds Medals and 5 different Scoreboards so you can show how much better you are than everyone else.

Rupert's Zombie Diary Update

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:22:00 +0800

There should be an update coming to Rupert’s Zombie Diary on armorgames.com soon, just waiting for them.

Here’s changelog:
- Added Control Customisation (under Options)
- Added Outro
- Added Message to inform people that you can still play areas that are fortified (to earn cash and/or to advance the day)
- Instead of surfing zombies automatically you now have to Kick (default: SPACE) while over them
- Lowered skill prices
- Lowered Fortifications prices to 300 (down from 500)
- Rifle starts off with 20 Rifle bullets (up from 10)
- Ammo pickups now give 15 Rifle bullets (up from 5)
- Rupert now finds 5 additional Rifle bullets at the begining of each day
- Skill “I PACKED EXTRA” now has a 30% chance Rifle shots won’t deplete ammo (up from 20%)
- Skill “FISHERMANS FRIEND” now has a 30% chance fish will heal you (down from 40%)
- Turned Dust Effects off by default (due to the lag it causes)
- Common Zombies now run at slightly faster speeds in Nightmare mode
- Zombies now spawn 1/2 a second faster on all area difficulties (every 4secs on 1 Skull, every 2secs on 4 Skulls)
- Slightly increased the amount of Zombies that can spawned at once
- Goliath now heals by 10% (or 20% on Nightmare) from eating zombies (down from 20% and 40%)
- Lowered Wizard’s Health by 1000 (now 3000 or 4000 on Nightmare)
- Improved the way the check for defeating the Wizard Boss is done (hopefully he won’t just disapear with nothing happening anymore)
- Fixed bug where health pickups bring your health to 100 when you have the 125 Health Points Skill
- Fixed bug where Zombie Activity was sometimes happening at Home
- Fixed bug where new Zombies coming into London disapear (eg: 47 new zombies come in and 25 of them don’t move to any area)
- Day Time Limit on Fortified Areas is now turned on by default (as it’s the prefered option)

And the Newgrounds Edition should be coming out on Newgrounds.com soon. It’s all done and ready.

Rupert’s Zombie Diary has been released! You can now go...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:11:00 +0800

Rupert’s Zombie Diary has been released! You can now go play it over at Armor Games.
The game will be released on Newgrounds in a week or less.

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An Evil Wizard has taken over London, and is using an army of Zombies to do his bidding. You take control of Rupert Whitewater a man who stands up to the evil reign. In this action survival game, you will have to learn effective and brutal special moves to strike down your foes. Develop tactics, and purchase perks to become the ultimate zombie killing machine.

Been working on this game some more, here’s some of what...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:13:00 +0800

Been working on this game some more, here’s some of what I’ve done:
- Added Level Chunk system, where it get’s a random pre-made level chunk to add to the level instead of just randomly generating tiles. This allows for me (or someone) to make little platforming puzzles which will randomly get placed in the level as you go up.
- New Tile Types (saw and unstable rocks)
- Moving Platforms
- Enemies
- Bouncy Gravestones on Enemy Death (Worms :D)
- Attack and Dust Effects
- Level Editor to help me make Level Chunks.
- HUD / Score System (gain points by gaining height or killing mobs)
- Fall Recovery (if you fall off the bottom of the screen it will teleport you back up at the cost of some health and points)
- Started on Dungeons (these appear every so often and you have to survive a wave of Goblins to proceed)

Next I’ll be starting to work on the level navigation AI so the Goblins (and any future ground enemies) will know how to get navigate the level to get to you.

I just started work on a new Flash game; the guy who does the...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:32:00 +0800

I just started work on a new Flash game; the guy who does the art from a lot of my games came up to me with the idea and a bunch of the graphics ready. He was meant to be working with someone else on it by they didn’t work out.

Last night I started out by taking the animations he did for the player (running, jumping, landing and punch combos), making them work and trying to get the feel of the character right. Then today I started putting together the Tile Based Collision and level generation. Here’s what i got so far:

Play
(WASD or Arrow Keys to move, J or SPACE to punch)
I’m really enjoying working on this, doing stuff I haven’t done before is just much more fun and satisfying. First time doing progressive level generation and the last time I tried Tile Based Collision was when I hardly knew anything and I was reading a tutorial (and it was in AS2). At the moment the level generation is just completely random (plus leaving a gap every 2nd row) and you can abuse the not fully working wall jumping to just climb up.

Started working on a Mech for this flash game I’m making....

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:33:00 +0800

Started working on a Mech for this flash game I’m making. They’ll be enemies that use them and you’ll be able to hijack them somehow; i might make it so you can buy/upgrade your own too. Next i think i’ll make it so you can squish enemies if you step on them :D.

It was fun to make and pretty fun to use in-game too, thinking about adding Tanks and stuff now. At the moment in this game you defend your crashed Spaceship as you collect Metal to repair it and buy upgrades for your weapon and stuff. You can build defences like Sentries, Landmines and a Healing station, so maybe you could deploy controllable Vehicles that way as well.

Ha, I just noticed while checking the video that the Mech bleeds! Whoops :P

Playing a round of one of my upcoming flash games: “The...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:43:00 +0800

Playing a round of one of my upcoming flash games: “The Zombie Diary of Rupert Whitewater” on Streets of London.

Hopefully this game will be coming out soon. It’s been delayed due to needing a better Voice Actor and Zombie sound effects and then waiting to get all these in and ready. Starting to look for a Sponsor now.