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Game Studio Development Seven

Posted in Studio Game Development, tagged , , on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Introduction: One week to go to the end of the first sprint. We are getting forming our testing document and managing a couple of things with Mantis. Unfortunately the group’s website does not allow us to upload pictures, so we need to work out some of the logistics with the professor. Nevertheless we are trudging […]

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Studio Game Development Six

Posted in Studio Game Development, tagged , , on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Introduction: This marks the end of the first week of the first sprint. Harry and I have been doing art, and the development team has been working with the Mantis tracking system. There is not a whole lot to discuss right now. The review of the Game Design Document said we needed to add the […]

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Mario AI: An A* Approach

Posted in Games, tagged , , , on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Introduction: Back in 2009 I enrolled in a course at UNC-Charlotte, Intelligent Systems, taught by Dr. Jing Xiao. In that course it was a requirement to conduct an AI based project which would last the final four weeks of the course. There are two ways to do a class project, one where you get the […]

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Terrible Designs of the C Language

Posted in Programming, tagged , , , , on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

A friend of mine is working with the C language when I walked into the lab today and so I started to mess around with it too. My friends ran into some odd error that did not make any sense for a fairly lengthy amount of time. The error that Visual Studio reported was: “Sytanx […]

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Sprite Sheets with Gimp

Posted in Game Development, XNA, tagged , , , , , on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Introduction: Today’s challenge was making sprite sheets in an efficient manner, preferably using GIMP because it is a nice free solution for image processing. We have a game in development, a 2D platformer, using XNA and an outstanding artist, Rich Suarez, but it is difficult to keep up with his rate of production, until now.

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Studio Game Development Five

Posted in Studio Game Development, tagged , , on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Introduction: This week we finalized our Game Design Documents, which meant adding in the requirements. Dustin took lead attack on that task and must have done a fine job because we have been green-lit for our sprints. In the meantime Harry and Rachel got together during the Super Bowl and made some executive decisions regarding […]

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Studio Game Development Four

Posted in Studio Game Development, tagged , , on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Introduction: This week we have a couple new and interesting advancements made. First we have he first version of the Game Design Document, GDD. Next we have a new version of the prototype which includes a chasing robot and surveillance camera. Last we have some new concept art.

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