Procedural Cityscape

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Ant

Hey :)

Here’s my entry to the 2nd Procedurally Generated Graphics Contest on the Kongregate forums. It’s also a preview of the next tutorial I’ll be doing!

Here we go: (Click to generate, press any key to save a screenshot)

I’m fairly pleased with the end result but had planned a LOT more. I’ve had to stop early to begin marking a mountain of work; I could quite happily work on this for a long while (and probably will do in months to come). My plan had 16 different ‘cities’ – as you can see, I’ve only managed 2 of them so far.

Hope you enjoy the results, I’ll see you in the tutorial!

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Making a ‘Copter’ style game – The Projects

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Ant

Hello – April’s project is here at last!

Nice and simple this time around; we’re going to make a game like ‘Copter’. I’ve covered this in the video but I’ll mention it here too: Copying games can be a nice way to learn, just don’t make a habit of it. If you’re developing something for commercial purposes you’re not going to make any friends by ripping other people off. The people who made the original Copter can’t lay claim the genre, so feel free to do your own thing with it (as Halfbrick have done with ‘Jetpack Joyride’) but make sure it is unique enough to not be considered a clone.

With that out of the way, hop into the video to make something like this:

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1 year later

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Ant

Ant’s Corner is 1 year old – how time flies!

I’m away on holiday for a little longer but, don’t worry, I haven’t dropped off the planet and I am still open to tutorial suggestions for when I get back from my travels. I obviously haven’t been able to answer emails and/or YouTube comments recently (and that will continue for the rest of the week) but try again if you’re still stuck next week and I should be able to respond.

Happy Easter and Antiversary! :)

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Game highlight – GemCraft Labyrinth

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Ant

A shining example of a tower defense game – and of Flash games in general. There are plenty more in the GemCraft series; go play them all… now!

 

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Procedural Forest

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Ant

I saw this post on Kongregate and decided to have a go! The challenge is to generate a random forest with no drawings or imported graphics.

The end result can be a computer hog, so only click it if you’re not doing anything too important ;)

Here are some pictures of various results:

And here’s the SWF:

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