Introduction: as outlined in my initial blog post, I am going to attempt to create the same basic game - that of the first few minutes of Gradius for NES - using a number of different game making platforms, one per day during my week off. I'm using GitHub to store the different projects. See … Continue reading Picking a game making platform day 4: Scratch
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Picking a game making platform day 3: Stencyl
Introduction: as outlined in my initial blog post, I am going to attempt to create the same basic game - that of the first few minutes of Gradius for NES - using a number of different game making platforms, one per day during my week off. I'm using GitHub to store the different projects. See … Continue reading Picking a game making platform day 3: Stencyl
Picking a game making platform day 2: GDevelop 5
Introduction: as outlined in my initial blog post, I am going to attempt to create the same basic game - that of the first few minutes of Gradius for NES - using a number of different game making platforms, one per day during my week off. I'm using GitHub to store the different projects. See … Continue reading Picking a game making platform day 2: GDevelop 5
Picking a game making platform day 1: MakeCode Arcade
Introduction: as outlined in my initial blog post, I am going to attempt to create the same basic game - that of the first few minutes of Gradius for NES - using a number of different game making platforms, one per day during my week off. I'm using GitHub to store the different projects. See … Continue reading Picking a game making platform day 1: MakeCode Arcade
One Per Day: The picking a game making platform project
Post-project special pre-babble: This project started as one thing (the introduction) and over the course of the week morphed into something else (the further down you go). And yes, I meant babble. Project Post Table of Contents These links will become valid as each day passes. Day 1: MakeCode ArcadeDay 2: GdevelopDay 3: StencylDay 4: … Continue reading One Per Day: The picking a game making platform project
JavaScript via Games (part 1)
Most of my experience at this point is with the Udemy JS course How to Program Games: Tile Classics in JS for HTML5 Canvas. I'll mention that even though it was not part of the official course instructions I actually used GitHub to make my progress available as I went. This was to learn git … Continue reading JavaScript via Games (part 1)
Proto-dev log
I have a long term goal of writing a video game. But as I write this in March of 2019 I would consider my programming knowledge very much "barely existing". I mean by own standards that's what I would consider it. I did go through a Udemy course on JavaScript. It was kind of a … Continue reading Proto-dev log