Coltness HS – Computer Games Development
BGE & NPA
Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a free multiplayer & singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of the Cube FPS.
Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is fun, old school deathmatch gameplay and also to allow map/geometry editing to be done cooperatively in-game.
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Super TuxKart has release a new version and I have now upgraded the ICT 3 suite with this.
I haven’t had the time this year to make sure all the games are up to date, so I will be doing that over the next few weeks.
There will be a spreadsheet of version changes and I will update this blog when I update a game. If you see a big update that I have missed then let me know. The same goes for free games you come across, and once again “No! I will not be installing battlefield on the school’s computers”.
I have updated World of Padman on the ICT machines. It is now on v1.6.
If you have not tried the multi coloured goodness that is WoP, then give it a spin.
I am a big fan of video game emulators. These programs allow computers to run software written for other platforms. The results are not always perfect, but the faster the computer and the longer it is since the original platform was released the better the experience tends to be. There are a number of commercial products that allow you to get the arcade experiance in your own home. There has been a recent rise in the number of online emulators. These allow you to take classic consoles games for a spin. There are a number of problems with emulators, the most serious of which is that most of the games are still protected under copyright and have not passed into the public domain.
Recently emulators have made it on to consoles and now companies are selling their old games all over again, to a new generation of games players. However, with the rise of multicore processors it is now possible to emulate current generation consoles on a fairly modest PC. This does have big copyright issues as the games have not been licenced to these platforms.
The next big market is obviously mobile phones and we are starting to see some emulators for the most powerful phones, but how do you control them? I hear you ask, well look no further.
It’s easy to see an amusement arcade at the seaside or at a fun fair. However, it wasn’t that long ago that there was an arcade on every high street. Nowadays these tend to just have gambling machines in them. The name arcade game comes from these arcades.
I found this site that has classic arcade games. These games were often designed to separate you from your pocket money. They are quite fast paced and last between 30s and 5 minutes on average. Some players, though, could play for hours on a single 10p credit.
In a way modern phone and browser games are like arcade games, they are designed to give you a few minutes of entertainment and make you come back for more.
The 1980-games site also has Nintendo and other games. It doesn’t have my favorite, but I have sunk a lot of 10ps into some of these games.
There are a ton of “physics” games out there, line rider games are just one subset of them.
There are a number of great pieces of level design out there. I liked this one because of it size. Try the whole site though there are loads of other levels. You can sign up and make your own, my advice… start small. I would like to remind you that I am not responsible for the content of other sites.
Well Code Year is underway and there is still time to learn. It’s part of the Code Academy program that aims to get more people creating websites and games.
Sign up and each week you will be sent an email, it takes about an hour to complete the tasks. No previous experience is required and the tutorials are interactive, so no boring sitting about watching videos.
This is a fantastic game development environment is free on Windows PCs. We started to create a game and within minutes we had a working version.
Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.
There is a lot of information about Kodu online and youtube has lots of Kodu videos and tutorials. One of the best ways to learn it though is to download a project and just jump into the editor and have a play about. There are built in tutorials and I found these to be very helpful in learning Kodu, however, if you want to watch some videos you can do that here.
Here are some helpful links.
I have just been told about Play My Code. What a great little site.
You learn to program in Quby which is a Ruby like language, this is fairly easy to learn, although it is text based rather than Scratch’s more intuitive graphical interface. You can view the code of the games on the site and this allows you to learn from people who have developed games.
The site would benefit from some tutorials but the chances are that these can be found in youtube (I can’t check this from work though)
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