{"id":391,"date":"2015-08-10T23:24:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/?p=391"},"modified":"2015-08-11T00:56:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T22:56:36","slug":"the-week-of-awesome-iii-death-is-useful-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/the-week-of-awesome-iii\/the-week-of-awesome-iii-death-is-useful-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) The Week Of Awesome III &#8211; Death is useful &#8211; Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamedev.net\/topic\/668847-the-week-of-awesome-iii-the-third-annual-unofficial-gamedevnet-competition-administration-thread\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.gamedev.net\/topic\/668847-the-week-of-awesome-iii-the-third-annual-unofficial-gamedevnet-competition-administration-thread\/', 'The Week Of Awesome III');\" target=\"_blank\">The Week Of Awesome III<\/a> GameDev.net\u00a0competition on which I participate this year has begun. The theme is\u00a0<strong>Death is Useful.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After some brainstorming I have decided on the general idea of the game I try to develop:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the hero is a White Knight. I found him after browsing the site\u00a0http:\/\/opengameart.org\/ and it belongs to <a href=\"http:\/\/opengameart.org\/users\/irmirx\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/opengameart.org\/users\/irmirx', 'irmirx');\" target=\"_blank\">irmirx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the hero will try to kill some nightmarish creatures, but something strange is happening, the creature are not dying<\/li>\n<li>trying to outrun the overwhelming creatures our hero stumbles upon a prison cell where someone is asking for help<\/li>\n<li>the hero will free up the unseen voice, which turns out to be the Death, the Grim Reaper himself<\/li>\n<li>as a result the nightmarish creatures can be killed and our hero receives a gift from the Death himself<\/li>\n<li>what is the gift you may ask ? this is to be seen\u2026 \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today I built my animation sprite, I have been able to do by myself also an idle animation using the modular pieces made by <a href=\"http:\/\/opengameart.org\/users\/aimlesszealot\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/opengameart.org\/users\/aimlesszealot', 'AimlessZealot');\" target=\"_blank\">AimlessZealot<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_401\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 600px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Knight_run.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"401\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/the-week-of-awesome-iii\/the-week-of-awesome-iii-death-is-useful-day-1\/attachment\/knight_run\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Knight_run.png\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"White Knight Sprite\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;White Knight Sprite&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;White Knight Sprite&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Knight_run-600x600.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Knight_run.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-401\" src=\"http:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Knight_run-600x600.png\" alt=\"White Knight Sprite\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Knight_run-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Knight_run-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Knight_run-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Knight_run.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Knight Sprite<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I loaded the character in my game engine and implemented the animations for: standing idle, running, jumping and shooting projectiles in both directions:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Week Of Awesome III - Day 1\" width=\"598\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NxmmciJn2i4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Time Management<\/h4>\n<p>I try to use <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pomodoro_Technique\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pomodoro_Technique', 'the Pomodoro technique');\" target=\"_blank\">the Pomodoro technique<\/a> as time management method, although I forgot to start the tracking application a few times this is my logged session for Day 1:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>10:Aug:2015 14:06:: Week of Awesome III &#8211; Death is useful &#8211; <strong>Make Sprites for the protagonist<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10:Aug:2015 16:44:: Week of Awesome III &#8211; Death is useful &#8211; <strong>Make sprite sheet for the hero<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10:Aug:2015 19:26:: Week of Awesome III &#8211; Death is useful &#8211; <strong>Make sprite sheet for the hero<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10:Aug:2015 20:57:: Week of Awesome III &#8211; Death is useful &#8211; <strong>Animate sprite sheet in engine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10:Aug:2015 22:08:: Week of Awesome III &#8211; Death is useful &#8211; <strong>Add projectile<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10:Aug:2015 22:44:: Week of Awesome III &#8211; Death is useful &#8211; <strong>Add journal entry<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I hope I will be able to manage my time and implement all I have in mind&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 2<\/strong> goals are to start implementing the world map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Week Of Awesome III GameDev.net\u00a0competition on which I participate this year has begun. The theme is\u00a0Death is Useful.\u00a0 After some brainstorming I have decided on the general idea of the game I try to develop: the hero is a White Knight. I found him after browsing the site\u00a0http:\/\/opengameart.org\/ and it belongs to irmirx the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-week-of-awesome-iii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TheWeekOfAwesome-Day1-.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p473YX-6j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedevis.cool\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}