Right, time to start work on an actual game! One that I will see through all the way to the end!
This one’s based on a game I made late last year at Uni using Game Maker 8.0, a fairly powerful piece of software which is a good way of teaching you how games are made and how to make good design decisions, but not exactly what you’d use to make a professional product.
Here’s a video of that version in action : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO6DyWNLp30
If you want to have a play of that, follow this link: http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/games/148513-colour-block-arena
Now, feast your eyes on this – this is how the XNA version looks at the moment! – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7pIAl40F7Q
If you want to have a play of that…. why the hell would you? Not much to look at (yet) but, by gum! This is tough! My next task is to get the little dude to shoot stuff, after that, putting down some blocks and adding collision detection. Still a long way to go. I’ll post here from time to time with any progress, but I doubt this project will be done before the year is out. It’s going to take a while!
Watch this space 🙂
Dave.