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Panda Hell update #9: More art and enemy AI using the A* Search algorithm

July 29, 2018 by Gabriel Maldonado

Is Artificial Intelligence week! If I though the complexity of the procedural level generation was quite something, digging deeper into the basic AI development for the enemies has been also quite the endeavor. At the moment all enemies share an EnemyBrain script which follows few simple rules to interact with the user, in a nutshell is based on a “Wander, follow, retreat” behavior where the enemy wanders until the Player is in range, at that point the enemy follows the […]

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Categories: Art, Behind the scenes, C#, Devblog, Development Diaries, Game Development, Panda Hell, Unity 2D shooter • Tags: 2d games, 2d shooter, c#, game programming, gaming, indie game development, panda hell, unity

Panda Hell Update #8: Minimum Lovable Product

July 22, 2018 by Gabriel Maldonado

The problem I see with games versus other types of software is that in games having a Minimum Viable Product does not mean much. While in other type of software you may have a working solution to a problem that’s normally enough to get a prototype rolling, and iterate on customer feedback, with gaming has never been enough, as this will not generate enough traction. With games doesn’t feel like that, feels like what you need is a Minimum Lovable […]

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Categories: Art, Behind the scenes, C#, Devblog, Game Development, Panda Hell, Unity 2D shooter • Tags: 2d games, 2d shooter, c#, game programming, gaming, indie game development, panda hell, unity

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Panda Hell update #7: Procedural level generation is live!

July 14, 2018 by Gabriel Maldonado

Before going deeper into the new features I have added this week, here’s a quick video of the current status (captions pointing some features): Procedural generation script Last week I decided to take a detour in the current development and move from a random generated level system to a procedural generated one. I really believed this could take me at least a few weeks but actually was “simpler” than expected, as there’s lots of case studies in internet where you […]

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Categories: Behind the scenes, C#, Game Development, Panda Hell, Pixel art, Unity 2D shooter • Tags: c#, game development, gamedev, indiedev, pixel art, unity

First 100 hours breakthrough

July 11, 2018 by Gabriel Maldonado

Well well, definitely is hard to calculate how much time a project will take, and even harder if it’s your first project. I’ve just realized that today I break through the first 100 hours in Panda Hell,that’s an average of 2.5h daily for the last 6 weeks, since I started the project. When I initially planned the time it would take me, I thought that by this time the project would be complete (heh…., naivety right?), but is also true […]

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Categories: Behind the scenes, Devblog, Game Development, Panda Hell, Random Thoughts

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Panda Hell update #6: Design decisions and moving to procedural level generation

July 4, 2018 by Gabriel Maldonado

Game play experience completed This week I’ve been working in making the game play a complete experience and get a full-game feel, where you start a game, you go through the levels, you encounter the final boss and you finish the game. Which leaded to some design issues (more below), let’s start! – Added a score system by using PlayerPrefs, this stores the info between sessions via serialized data into the player machine. Which allows you to keep track of […]

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Panda Hell update #5: Moving to Bangkok, destructible terrain, and new weapons.

July 1, 2018 by Gabriel Maldonado

Adding new features and mechanics: This week was a little tricky to dedicate time to the game as I was flying back from Spain to Bangkok, working, and to top it up there was an air traffic strike which didn’t make things easier. After around 48 hours I landed in Bangkok and looked around for coffee shops where to get some work done, as being stuck in the room is not the best way to stay productive. I got up […]

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Weekly update #4 – Say hi to “Panda Hell”, fixing bugs, and the burnout itch

June 23, 2018 by Gabriel Maldonado

Last week was all about fixing core bugs, polish roughness, add art and start to plan a soft launch ( maybe using itch.io refinery, which I recently discovered),which more or less accomplished, but as I have limited time to work on this I couldn’t advance as much as I wanted. However I spent 70% of the time trying to re-build the player’s movement logic and behavior. I struggled for hours to make it work properly as was quite tricky to […]

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Weekly update 2D shooter #3 – Adding art!

June 16, 2018 by Gabriel Maldonado

The initial prototype works nicely (most of the time) but looks pretty bland (as well as bad, as is not optimized for pixel art yet), which is “normal” as I spent almost all my time in coding the initial game play and mechanics. I track the time working on this game using Harvest and Trello cards, this image is from 10th of June, which shows 8.13h dedicated to Graphic Design. What the image does not say is that the same […]

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Categories: Art, Behind the scenes, C#, Devblog, Development Diaries, Game Development, Panda Hell, Pixel art, Unity, Unity 2D shooter

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Weekly update Unity 2D shooter #2

June 9, 2018 by Gabriel Maldonado

The game finally reached a point where is fun to play and works nicely overall. At this moment is playable so I’ll be compiling a web version soon, after I added some more niceties to make it easier to understand for people, so it can be play-tested by anyone. Is still far of having all the features I want to integrate in the final prototype, also has had zero time invested in design for the moment, but I’m focusing on […]

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Panda Hell update #9: More art and enemy AI using the A* Search algorithm

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Panda Hell Update #8: Minimum Lovable Product

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Panda Hell update #7: Procedural level generation is live!

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First 100 hours breakthrough

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Panda Hell update #6: Design decisions and moving to procedural level generation

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Panda Hell update #5: Moving to Bangkok, destructible terrain, and new weapons.

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Weekly update #4 – Say hi to “Panda Hell”, fixing bugs, and the burnout itch

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Weekly update 2D shooter #3 – Adding art!

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Weekly update Unity 2D shooter #2

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