{"id":495,"date":"2012-01-31T06:44:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T14:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haymanquarterly.com\/blogs\/?page_id=495"},"modified":"2014-03-24T07:39:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:39:25","slug":"faykade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/haymanquarterly.com\/blogs\/faykade\/","title":{"rendered":"FayKade – Defeat Bad Bart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our hero, BootHat, must stop at nothing to save the town (and quite possibly, the world) from notorious Bad Bart! \u00a0Armed with his trusty 6-shooter and true western grit, he’ll make his way through towns and open country to shatter the illusions that Bad Bart has plagued over the land.<\/span><\/p>\n

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FayKade is a Work in Progress.<\/span><\/p>\n

This game originated from a spontaneous decision to join an online forum competition at the very last minute. \u00a0It was a 72 hour competition. \u00a0I guess I wanted the challenge.<\/p>\n

And challenge it was! \u00a0It took a while to get in to the swing of writing code. \u00a0What little code I know, that is. \u00a0I was constantly referencing the help files, which got me as far as I did.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t able to finish the game in time. \u00a0But I submitted it anyway. \u00a0Yikes, I know, huh? \u00a0Anyway, \u00a0here’s the download link of my submission to the competition.<\/p>\n

FayKade (not-even-beta – unfinished) \u00a0 DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/p>\n

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Screenies!<\/p>\n

\"Intro\"FayKade\"FayKade<\/p>\n

More to come. \u00a0Maybe.<\/p>\n

Online DevLog:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

02\/04\/12 \u00a0UPDATE<\/p>\n

I’ve been able to smooth out the collisions and other movement mechanics in the game. I found some help and have implemented\u00a0icuurd12b42’s Smooth Platform<\/a>\u00a0to make it better.<\/p>\n

I still need to finish the plot to complete the game. There are some elements I was not able to include in the 72 hour time limit. This game should’ve been about 3 times as long or more to complete. Plus, I’ll be able to stretch out the enemy encounters a bit and introduce them a little better. The enemy AI and strengths need to be fine-tuned, too. Down the road a ways, I plan on animating the character sprites.<\/p>\n

02\/06\/12 \u00a0UPDATE<\/p>\n

The game is progressing well. Zombies can hurt you now. I’ve added health boosters, ammo, a second gun, going in to the buildings, and the dreaded lack of win\/lose screen has been remedied. (Yay) Also added extra controls option for WASD buttons and fixed some sound effects. I’ve been trying to clean up my code a bit, too – using scripts instead of in-object scripts. I’ll be working on more graphics next. I’m gonna try my hand at backgrounds, methinks.<\/p>\n

I may implement weapon aiming with mouse. It would be nice to shoot upwards, eh? Damn bats. (Undecided yet – not being able to shoot upwards adds some difficulty to the game.)<\/p>\n

I’ll be uploading a new build soon.<\/del>\u00a0 \u00a0Nope, It won’t be very soon, actually. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

02\/12\/12 \u00a0UPDATE<\/p>\n

I’ve done a lot of work regarding plot and art\/ambiance. \u00a0I’ve spent a lot of time putting together parallax backgrounds, also working out the bugs with some movement issues. \u00a0I’m looking to learn some code optimization techniques, which may slow my progress a little, but will be most beneficial to the game, and future projects.<\/p>\n

Here’s a list:<\/p>\n