Perth Games Festival

Been a little while since my last post, but recently alongside some others from the same course, we attended the Perth Games Festival. An event in the city town hall for developers to showcase the latest games they were working on. We had a table set up with three computers running different games we have made so far in the year. It was a great experience! So many people came through the event (1700 was the number I was told, how crazy!) so we almost always had people stopping by to play our games. Got to know a couple of other developers a little bit which was neat.

It was great to see so many people playing the games, offering feedback and just having fun.

Big thanks to my friend for turning up to help out as well even though he wasn't apart of our course. His spare mouse and help saved the day!

Today's update: Had a photo taken with some other game devs from Perth ready for the Perth Games Festival on the 11th of October. Apparently the picture will be published in a local Perth newspaper. Pretty cool stuff to see some of the other devs out there. Hopefully I can make it to the games festival and get to know a few of them a little bit more.

Bit of an update from the weekend.
Helped out our Tafe at the WA Skills West expo. We had some of our games put onto arcade machines which were displayed at the expo. My friend Nick and I both wen't to help out on the day and it was very enjoyable. It's really satisfying to see people playing and enjoying the games we've made.
We were also interviewed by Boom Radio at the event. But that's another story.

Terrain

Bit of an older post. Found a nice screenshot today of the terrain I created for the Multi-stage boss battle for Tafe. The terrain was created inside a program called "World Machine" which lets you randomly generate terrain, playing around with different settings until you get the look and feel just right.

Snake Game for arcade machine

Today we reached a finalised build in the game our group (of 4 people) created for a Game Jam in class.
The game is a local based multi-player game of Snake. Each snake emitting a poison trail behind them in order to kill the other player. A series of different pick-ups, both good and bad, also spawn into the game for players to collect.

This build was optimised for the arcade machines, so that included making sure movement and fire controls would work with the arcade controls.

Other fixes included improved collision boxes over the rocks and increased the spawn rate of pick-ups.