Welcome to Sunday Musings! Back again like an actual boomerang...not even a metaphorical one. We don't do things by half here...not even with similes Boxes of Cameras in the Kitchen for the BossSeriously, if I could find a picture that represented that heading, I'd deserve a knighthood or a Golden Crisp. Either would do nicely. Although, I'd prefer the Golden Crisp...It's tastier. The week has been a tad busy for us, with getting ready for yet another DubLudo and plenty more to do yet! On Monday we did some white-boxing of the next section of the game, the lead up to the second Temple. Since then it's been an exercise in trying to get each level working properly. Lots of trial and error and more error and more error. But it's working now...mostly. Still some work to do ahead of tomorrow. Hopefully it's all working by then. Adrian's been busy modelling out and texturing the kitchen and all it's furnishings which was our Screenshot Saturday this week: This is the second scene in the game where we meet one of the NPC's in the game, Evelyn's father. There's still a few items missing from the scene but they'll be put in, in the next couple of weeks, hopefully. Apart from getting the white-boxed section of the game to work, I've also done some small things in the game, and one fairly large thing. One thing I fixed early on in the week was Evelyn's walking up slopes. This is of particular importance to the section leading up to the next temple, without it working properly, we'd have to completely redesign that section. So, it's working now so she shouldn't be sliding in unusual fashion anymore. I've also created 2 new camera modes in the game, we're up to 7 now with more to come later, no doubt. The first one is a tracking camera that has boundaries on the left and right and doesn't follow the character in the y-axis. This is for both the first Boss Battle (and possibly other ones) and the kitchen level. The other camera mode I coded this week has an upward boundary, so it stops following the player in the y-axis when she goes above a certain height. Handy, particularly in sections where you don't want the camera to pan too high. The last thing I did this week was the first Boss battle which, as I said in my blog this week, was really fun after weeks of Object Pooling (which is now thankfully done for now). The boss has ranged attacks, as well as a melee attack and a closer up ranged attack. It still needs some work, obviously, but it's getting there. We'll need to test it a lot to get the balance right on difficulty. Risk of TF2This week we've been playing far more Risk of Rain than should be acceptable for any human being. We played a 3 hour game during the week, just kept looping around the levels to see how over powered we could become. The answer is...very. Unfortunately, my internet cut out and Adrian got kicked at around the 2.5 hour mark, so I finished the game solo. Still such a good game. Think we need a Risk of Rain 2 soon though! We'd love that This week me and Adrian also dabbled in some Team Fortress 2 after the slight catastrophe that was the first attempt to play it where I was absolutely woeful. WOEFUL. But last night was more of a success, apart from my keyboard being a nuisance and losing connection every couple of minutes towards the end. Got some nice kills as the Sniper and a few more as the Heavy. Really need to get used to the Keyboard and Mouse. I am getting there. So, we'll no doubt be playing this a lot more over the next couple of weeks. Good fun had by all. We also briefly had a play a small portion of Hammerwatch which has a new campaign and it's bloody tough! We'll have to give it some more goes. Time All for the MusicsIt's time for the music section of Sunday Musings. This week, I've gone for "Wore Out The Soles of my Party Boots" by NoFX (I really like NoFX, you may have noticed). Heard this song for the first time on their greatest hits album. This is a more updated version and it's awesome Adrian's gone for Hozier's "From Eden". That's all I got. I asked Adrian about him and he doesn't even know who he is...So, erm, yeah. Dan's: NoFX - Wore Out the Soles of my Party BootsAdrian's: Hozier - From EdenThat'll do...So that's my lot for this week. We'll be back as usual next week and what not. We'll have pictures from DubLudo XV, Adrian's blog and then back here next Sunday for more of the same.
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