Post mortem 7dl 2013

First happy to finish. Very tough week with work, family and 7drl. A week is not very long to build a game !!!!

Am happy with end product but it’s clear I am way way off the qty of so many other 7drlers… Have only had a look at about 6 but the gameplay and graphics are miles above mine. At least it gives me a good idea of where I need to head for next year.

Ok soon honor of Lee Van Cleef let’s break it down

The good

Deployment – learnt a lot from last year. HTML 5/js and asp .mvc was so easy to deploy with visual studio, last year I mucked around with windows installers.

Script engine – ok a bit rough but I decided to try to build a scripting engine (Dominicscript) in a week… and despite its rough edges it sort of works and I’ll expand it in v2.0.

Scott Hanselman – big thanks for him agreeing to be in the game!!!!

The Bad

Graphics -yuk!!!!

Speed – still too slow

The Ugly

Code – The rush to finish led to lots of rubbish code particularly on the last day.

Conclusion

So there it is my 7day experience this year, check out the game (any modern browser is all you need)
domssite.com/roguecoder

My 7DRL have a go and let me know what you think

Ok this is a fairly crazy game – I built in 7 days (actually would end up to be about 20 -30 hours)  with a lack of sleep  – if you have a chance to have  a play – let me know your thoughts – big thanks to Scott Hanselman for letting me use him as a main character. I’ll publish the code soon

domssite.com/roguecoder

It’s written in asp.net mvc4, html5, Javascript

 

 

 

 

Successfully completed my second 7DRL this year

I have just finished (well sunday) my 7 Day Roguelike game. Its an annual comp that requires you to build a game in 7 days. I’ll send some more details out soon and if you would like to play with it test it great. It was built in HTML5, JS, C#,ASP.NET MVC4. I’ll also add the git source control. Big thanks to Scott Hanselman for agreeing to be a character in it.

 

 

Vote for RSSSRoguelike for Roguelike game of the year

OK so you should remember the tutorial we built earlier in the year – so now one of the cool contributors on codeplex has added a polish version for the game!!!!

And if you would like you can vote for RSSSRoguelike for Roguelike of the Year 2012 at http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com.au and vote for lots of other really cool games as well like FTL etc….

Here is where to vote:  http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com.au

Here is the tutorial: http://domscode.com/2012/02/01/building-the-really-really-really-simple-roguelike-v0-1-with-c/

Codeplex: http://rrrsroguelike.codeplex.com

Cheers
Dom