droidgnome - android games

Android roguelike

2010-08-31T03:35:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I started yet another android game project. This time a roguelike game. So far I haven't done that much, just trying out different UI layouts. I want it to be as accessible as possible. Here's a youtube video of an early build.

Android dungeon crawler engine

2010-05-04T12:40:00.000-07:00

zeng hiscores

2010-03-28T23:06:00.001-07:00

scoreloop provides this cool widget for use on webpages:

Loading Data...

double blasters.. and a nice scrolling starfield

2009-12-23T03:49:00.001-08:00

andshmup2 progress

2009-12-21T06:46:00.000-08:00

Enemy bullets
Scoring
Items can be awarded after killing a wave
Event based level scripting

Block Attack Beta 3 on android market

2009-12-21T01:56:00.001-08:00

Next shmup!

2009-12-19T23:25:00.000-08:00

I got a bit tired on working on Block Attach so I started on a new shmup - it's always more fun to shoot stuff.

Controls are galaga style (only left and right) and it's auto-fire but I'm planning to add a positive/negative polarity feature (like in Ikaruga) - thats what the middle button in the screenshot is for

I've got the basic game functionality up with Catmull Rom splines for the the enemy movement. I have also started on a basic level scripting system.

Block Attack Beta 2 on android market

2009-12-04T03:53:00.001-08:00

Block Attack beta on market

2009-11-27T09:58:00.000-08:00

Please leave feedback!

progress report

2009-11-16T01:44:00.000-08:00

Some improvements on the new game:

new block graphics
new font
more solid gameplay and block movement
sounds

Still haven't figuraed out a name though..

scoring, combos and chains

2009-11-05T13:06:00.000-08:00

Got combos and chains and scoring implemented now. Getting closer to completing the core gameplay but still some issues (and bugs) remaining. Screenshots of opengl with DDMS still sucks though...

next game - puzzler

2009-10-30T08:31:00.000-07:00

After lackluster feedback for geomfighter on the market I got tired of trying to making shooter games and decided to try making what everyone else is doing - match 3 puzzlers..

Panel de pon / tetris attack is one of my favourites so i'm thinking of basically copying the concept. I have also checked out some similar games on iPhone to see what they are doing.

I hacked this basic engine up in a couple of days.

geomfighter on market

2009-10-22T03:45:00.001-07:00

I have now published geomfighter on android market!

Swedish Android Developers Contest - 09

2009-10-13T05:12:00.000-07:00

I entered geomfighter in SADC 09 (http://www.tre.se/templates/FullSizePage.aspx?id=37993).

We'll see how it goes. The game didn't feel fully finished, but I really don't have any more time to spend at the moment.

So far I've learnt quite a bit of OpenGL ES programming (well 2d stuff at least). The game uses VBOS and draw texture GL extensions but falls back to basic textured quad rendering for devices that don't support the GL extensions (Samsung galaxy I think.. )

I reused some code from andshmup (sound playing) but most of it is new stuff. I turned into a bit of a hack at the end .. sometimes I get enough of writing good looking code at work :)

I'm hopefully going to publish it on market soon, but I haven't decided on if I'm going to sell it or make it ad-supported yet. To sell it i'd need to add some more features I think (have some stuff in mind).

geomfighter screenshot

2009-10-13T00:26:00.000-07:00

It's hard to play with one hand and take screenshots with the other :)

This one turned out ok though.

geomfighter

2009-10-13T00:03:00.000-07:00

Decided on a title for the new game

geomfighter

lack of inspiration .. again.

New shooter!

2009-09-05T04:29:00.000-07:00

I realized that I'd never have the dicipline to rewrite andshmup using open gl. Instead I have started a new project. It's a new shooter, but more of an arena shooter (think geometry wars for inspiration) . Controls are touch only, so no trackball like last time.

Trace paths from the ship that will be followed (like in Flight Control on the iPhone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADHFGcmKFs) if your not tracing a path you are shooting.

I think i'ts pretty neat but the current implementation is quite crude and has a lot of room for improvement.

I can have quite a lot of stuff on screen befor things start to slow down. Open GL is really the way to go on android.

Back from vacation

2009-08-06T14:07:00.000-07:00

Back from summer vaction (it was mostly rainy though..).

I am experimenting a bit with opengl now, and I have a first attempt at a sprite "framework" going. Haven't benchmarked it to see if the performance is any good. I'm probably not doing things in the most efficient way (just drawing plain textured quads without using any GL extensions).

Don't know if I'll ever have the energy to change the implementation in andshmup to use opengl though, but for future games maybe.

BETA 0.2

2009-07-08T14:14:00.000-07:00

Ok, I wasn't really supposed to work more on this until after my vacation but I couldn't help myself.

I did a really simple optimization that did a big difference for the framerate - I changed the Bitmaps for all sprites to use ARGB_4444 instead of ARGB_8888. Just one or two lines of code changed and it really makes the framerate a lot smoother.

I also added a sound option in the main menu.

Uploding to market now.

Market comments - and my comments

2009-07-03T07:32:00.000-07:00

I got some comments on the BETA release - here are my comments on the comments

Made it to level 5. Lags when using trackball. Can u make it to use the keys please?

Lag is probably due to framerate drops which I'll try to improve.
Regarding keys - I have a G2 myself so I don't know what keys are best. But it should be no problem adding key support.

good game..would be cool if the accelerometer controlled the ship, and a menu would be nice

Accelerometer maybe.. I'll think about it.

very promising but ship is laggy

See lag comment above.

Good game,fun sounds,wud b more fun with power ups?

Thanks

Not bad, a little laggy

Thanks. See lag comment above.

Great game . This is a fun game . 5 stars possibly after updates . I like the way the lasers when blasting the objects whatever they are .

Smoothen out control and implement the things you mentioned. Then it will be worth 5 stars

Will try to fix lag issues.

BETA on Android Market

2009-07-02T12:48:00.000-07:00

I published a BETA now on Android Market

http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.dg.andshmup

If anyone likes it (or hates it) please give feedback.

andshmup

2009-07-02T11:38:00.000-07:00

I am currently learning the ins and outs of game programming on the Android platform. As a first project I chose to make a simple shoot em up game. Since I couldn't come up with a good name it's simply titled 'andshmup'.

Its currently in playable form, a few stages are scripted, a few enemy sprites are in. It's not really optimized (except for some obvious things that were causing GCs all over the place..) but has a fairly consistent framerate (I capped it at 30). I have noticed that it slows down a bit after a while, especially if you keep your finger set on the firebutton but I haven't hade the time to analyze it properly.

Some screenshots

2009-07-02T11:33:00.000-07:00

I grabbed some screenshots from the game as it looks currently. I think I am going to upload it as a beta release to the market tonight.