#24434 - krom - Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:31 pm
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yaustar has submitted a great third year university project based around Metal Gear by Konami:
This is the final version of a third year project for University
between myself (Steven Yau) and MGFox (Andrew Buckingham). The game
design is copyrighted by Konami but everything else is written from
scratch and there is a supporting document to read in PDF as well. Have fun!
Bear in mind that we knew very, *very* little about the GBA hardware....
and we still do :p
Here is a link to the project page to find out more: http://yauster.com/dev/gba_mgs2d.html
The included documentation contains all of the steps taken to develop the project
and is a great resource for anyone that is thinking of making this style of game.
You can download Metal Gear straight from the main site!
#24436 - poslundc - Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:36 pm
Geeze... they wouldn't let me make a GBA game as a project at my university... >:(
Dan.
#24451 - zazery - Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:43 pm
Wow this is a really cool game. I read through most of your report and it has helped me out with a few problems that I have with a game I'm working on. Great work I enjoyed the read.
#24452 - Abscissa - Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:11 pm
| poslundc wrote: |
Geeze... they wouldn't let me make a GBA game as a project at my university... >:(
Dan. |
In general, Universities are uptight by nature.
#24463 - yaustar - Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:15 am
Well. we did do a games computing course :P
Thanks for comments as we everybody ! :) we poured a lot of hours sweat but no tears into this. Much appreciated :)
edit: How goes your result krom as well as your final year project.. I never got to see the final result :P
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#24497 - MGFox - Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:46 pm
Greetings, I'm glad you like the game, as yaustar stated it was created using a concoction of blood, sweat, tears and agonised sqealing.
We talked a while back about continuing the project but no conclusion occured and we since took upon another project which has hit a brick wall that goes by the name of 'Soggy'.
Yaustar, did you want to upload my report docs as well (if i can find them) and have you changed any of the code since the Dissertation release stage?
Cheers,
Fox
#24498 - dagamer34 - Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:52 pm
| MGFox wrote: |
Greetings, I'm glad you like the game, as yaustar stated it was created using a concoction of blood, sweat, tears and agonised sqealing.
We talked a while back about continuing the project but no conclusion occured and we since took upon another project which has hit a brick wall that goes by the name of 'Soggy'.
Yaustar, did you want to upload my report docs as well (if i can find them) and have you changed any of the code since the Dissertation release stage?
Cheers,
Fox |
** looks at yaustar's post***
yaustar said there wasn't any tears! Maybe he was speaking for himself only. :)
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#24499 - MGFox - Wed Aug 04, 2004 5:01 pm
He did say no tears, which i guess is true, we never actually cried...on the outside! Inside, we became broken men :-(
Seriously though, it was fun AND strenuous, we did have both ups and downs, but nothing we couldn't overcome with all-night programming sessions. But when things finally worked, we very happy...to get sleep!
Cheers,
Fox
#24522 - yaustar - Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:12 am
haha... yeah sure, I can upload your report as well... would give an interesting contrast to readers.. nah I havent changed the code although it be tempting to rewrite the engine..
As for the tears comment ... definintely no tears but lots of headbanging when things went strangely wrong *cough*AI radar*cough* ;)
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#24760 - yaustar - Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:30 am
Just an update, MGFox's report is no uploaded on the same page to give his view on the project and his side of the development.
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#24776 - MGFox - Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:49 am
I think he means that my report is 'NOW' uploaded on the download page :-D
Don't expect too much information about programming the GBA hardware, my main focuses were the A.I. (As simple as it is, we ran out of time) and the Sprites (Characters, yauster did the backgrounds).
I also did the player controls (movement, aiming and shooting), which i've just realised went undocumented, oops. However, yaustar modified the movement code to move the BG rather than Snake, so hopefully his report covers that (I have completely forgotten whats in your report, sorry yaustar).
Oh, and I suck at reports, I got a 2:1 (upper second class)
Cheers,
Fox
#24777 - yaustar - Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:52 pm
If it makes you feel any better Fox, so did I ;)
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