Learn from this game project, I have got deep understanding of game engine. We use melonJS as our game engine and finish a RPG game (we built a game which we all like it).
Game industry nowadays is changing rapidly. Lot of tedious work had been finished by game engine. Standing on the shoulders of giants, game developers can spend more time on game design now. Lots of function include map editor are done by engine developers. By learning how to use engine. We can focus on what we want our game to be instead of wasting time to make a great idea out. I think most of commercial game will build base on game engine in future. And game developer will do less coding(engine developers will do it). It is a tendency and it obey the rule of social division of labor.
Next project will base on unity, great chance to learn a fascinating commercial game engine.
At first, I want to explain why here is no week 8 and week 9 in my blogger.
Week8 is fall break, so it just my spare time in Yellow Stone. And Week9 is the fourth week for XNA game. Everything goes in smooth way as usual, prototyping, pizza bonus.
Back to week10's studying experience. This week we start a new game project(based on HTML5 and JavaScript), and my team choose to develop a Shoshone language learning game. After two days' brain storming process, we decide to try a RPG game like Pokemon, which using top-down view and round-based mechanism.
I am so excited about this plan and can't wait to work it out, since I have planned to develop a RPG game for a long time.
It is unrealistic to build a RPG game from scratch in three weeks. In order to make our game decent we decide to find an open resource engine to base on. So I search the Internet and got Construct2. It is this Engine that shocked me so much. With event
sheet in Construct2, you can build your own game without programming.......
And I finished its tutorial within two hours, a survival game shooting monsters and avoid them to touch you.
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