In preparation for submitting my game, Piggy Chase, for Magfest, I’ve been doing a bunch of work on the game. I’ve fixed some of the AI bugs (like animals floating up in the air on hills?!) and changed the control scheme to be more user friendly. Additionally, I added two new levels! I am hoping … Continue reading
It’s been a bit of gap since my last post and that’s not for want of doing gamedev! I’ve been working on completing a Web Developer program over the last 6 months so I generally have not had much head space to work in Unity and C#. I have become a better programmer, however, and … Continue reading
Ever since this summer I’ve been struggle to make my AI better. I have Behavior Trees in and really easy to debug logic now, but the path finding has become an issue. The AI stumbled across the age old robotics problem of escaping a concave obstacle. I added a big derelict alien space craft that … Continue reading
Sometimes you need a break from hardcore space combat simulation programming. As you might be able to tell from browsing Badger Head Games, while our roots can probably be traced back to the love of space games in many styles, I also like to create fun silly games as well. Over the summer I began … Continue reading
April has been a busy month! I’ve been putting in a lot of hours bringing the game back to demo level with the new graphics and the new code spurred on by some good pressure due to awesome interview with Fists of Heaven and a video chat with ThatCooperFellow. In retrospect, the whole year has been … Continue reading
Welcome to the first in hopefully a series on making a space game. For some time I’ve been thinking of creating blog posts and videos about how I am creating Space Warfare: Infinite and creating a resource for other aspiring developers. I’ve been messing around with programming games since I was 11, but I am … Continue reading
I’ve been doing a lot of work on the AI this week. They are getting smart! I’ve got an FSM that uses steering behaviors now linking to a Goal processing AI so that each AI can determine goals and the steps to carry them out (or follow orders from other AI who commanded them!) Here … Continue reading
I am creating a page of Space Game Explosion gifs because every Monday I try to post one to Twitter. I thought it might be fun to have them all in one place on Badger Head Games. I like checking out how games and movies show explosions as I build them into Space Warfare: Infinite. … Continue reading
All week – during my snow days! – I have been working on procedurally generating the galaxy for Space Warfare – Infinite. I have been researching a lot on the old Elite as well as my Traveler RPG core rule book to help inspire me through it. I’m also using some complicated math to generate … Continue reading
I’ve spent most of my time lately reworking the way the game builds the galaxy, solar systems and local regions where the combat takes place. Just about got floating origin working so that the game can support battles over a solar system without having to jump between points of interest in separate zones. Also worked … Continue reading