#GameJam The arena & training grounds
Hmm a little blog fatigue here, but things have changed! – New design – The arena, a place where you can fight for gold (temporary upside: you won’t lose gold), and also some experience points. – The training grounds, this is the place for serious experience points as you can study, pratice and perfect your
#GameJam: Let’s play gladiator!
Ok a little later than planned! http://gladiator.landveroveraar.nl/ Let’s play gladiator!
#GameJam: Let’s fight with our gladiators!
Ok less than an hour to go for the fighting begins! Be prepared for some seriously broken inaccurate clumsy battling!
#GameJam: Gladiator – Register, Login, Chat, ‘Fight’
We’re getting somewhere, tomorrow I’ll release the beast! Done: – Login – Register – Chat – ‘Fight’ Needs work: – Notification – Fight! – Gladiator Object
#GameJam: Gladiator
The game will be called “Gladiator”, I know pretty darn original! At this very moment I’m logged in and have posted a message but I think I need to make a register feature for you guys! – Login, done – Chat, done – Register, working on it This is fun already! (for me that is!)
Creating a 72 hour game
Isn’t that hard, you sit and wait 72 hours and have a game all ready, the hardcore game of sitting still that is! Oh let’s rush ahead! First things first! – Built with PHP 5 – Text-based MUD – Fun Expect a follow up blog in 2 hours!
Protip: Use a default state for enumerators
When using an enumerator try and give it a default value, like in the example below Unknown=0 Example: Enum status { Unknown=0, Open=1, Active=2, Closed=3 } This gives you an easy value to check if things go wrong, for example my problem was a web.config value which defaulted in 1 (Open) but I expected 2