ROG && SGD

I think this is supposed to be like month 7 or 8 in the program but ill just start now.  This month i had Rules of the Game (ROG) and Structure of Game Development (SGD)

ROG -
 In ROG we were reintroduced  the design aspect of games. We learned about the Game Maker and Unity programs where we designed and created a prototype game using Game Maker. After completing a basic prototype we had several people test our game to improve quality and fun of our game.

SGD -
In SGD we really started to implement the use of states which are basically...well the state of which something is in... ie. resting state, moving state...that sort of stuff but with games...ie Main Menu, Game Play, Options... After the fourth lecture we had to start creating our own 2D game where the only requirements were that it had to have a player, multiple enemies, and projectiles. I ended up creating a game based off of 1942, an old arcade top down shooter. So the details of making my game... i will try to sum it up as much as possible, but i made a series of states for my title screen, main menu, options, how to play, high scores, game play and pause. Other than the wrappers the course directer gave us for the object factory which creates objects (kind of like a car factory), an object manager (kind of like a car dealership) and a bunch of wrappers to handle displaying a single image and playing sounds. What i had to create were the player, enemies, bullets, explosion, texture animations, font among many others. Look, for those that are interested, the following are some links...go to them if you want to play my game...

Latest DirectX:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=0CEF8180-E94A-4F56-B157-5AB8109CB4F5&displaylang=en

2045 Release (My Game):
http://www.mediafire.com/?ec5qqxym8nk809l

So please play my game and tell me what you think! This was the project i turned in after 10 days.

Getting Started

Hey everyone,

I'm new to this thing, but starting now I'm going to start recording my experiences while attending college. I'm not really sure what to put in these things so I'm just going to start talking. Please add any comments you wish too. I would like to get your opinion on stuff I'm going through.