Project Omicron Week 3 Blog Post
For the entirety of week 3 I was working at my uncle’s tire shop. This didn’t allow me to dedicate much time to project omicron, but I did draw out a prototype for what I imagined the screen could look like.
Summer 2019 project
For the entirety of week 3 I was working at my uncle’s tire shop. This didn’t allow me to dedicate much time to project omicron, but I did draw out a prototype for what I imagined the screen could look like.
With this dungeon game, I ran into a lot of problems with loading images and sprites in from a tilesheet. Once I figured out that, I created classes for the background, the walls, and the hero. I drew a small room and added a tilesprite for the background, then drew the animated idle hero in the center. I then wanted to move the character left and right with the A and D keys, but setVelocityX wasn’t working. However, once the hero was enabled in the physics world, I was able to use hero.body.setVelocityX. I then coded so that when the player pressed the WASD keys, they would move the respective directions. However, I wanted the animations to be consistent with the movement, so I loaded in a running spritesheet and created four new animations, one for each direction. I then added a toggle to each of the WASD keys so that when you hold W, it doesn’t start the running up animation over and over again. And then I used the toggle release of each WASD so that when you let go of each key, the hero becomes idle once more facing the direction it just ran in.
This summer I am going to be learning Phaser and JavaScript through 10 week-long series of iterations. I will be building game components and full games. At the end of the project, I will be able to demonstrate both JavaScript and game design skills and might give a talk to a local user group.