Mr Speaker

Since having a chat about what I learned from watchin' live coding, I've received buckets of emails 'n' tweets asking for links to the videos... After an epic google search of 5 minutes I've collected them all and aggregated them in this one happy place.

Someone coded Prelude of the Chambered for the Lundum Dare #21 game competition over 48 hours of August 19th-22nd 2011. I think most of it is here - and I've started annotating some of the good bits. Started. I'll fill out this post as I go...

It's well worth a study if you've got a couple of days to spare!

Part 1: The setup (3h 15m)

And so the game begins - on Saturday the 20th of August, some time in the afternoon...

Part 1 direct link (on YouTube - text in fullscreen is readable, but only just!)

• Sketches out some possible ideas in notepad
• Sets up Eclipse and his paint program
• Creates blank Java project and Swing component
• Creates display frame and boiler plate stuff
• (0:27) Sets up main loop "tick" and game screen
• Draws some random pixels with clipping
• Pixels with perspective
• (1:14) Maps a roof and floor texture
• Adds up-down camera movement
• Adds a wall-as-some-pixels
• Spends ages getting wall to work properly
• Conquers the wall maths!
• (2:19) Adds wall texture
• Adds spinning camera
• Tweets progress...
• Adds input handler
• Creates player and binds camera to the keys
• Adds "z" movement
• Make random cube generation for testing
• (3:09)Adds player/wall collision detection
• Fix rendering direction: "Let's flip the Y. Y not?"
• Realises the video stream for 3 hours costs $4000. Changes vendors.

Part 2: Adding engine features (2h 00m)

Part 2 direct link

• Re-sets up video streaming crap
• Adds sprite class
• Sprite drawing and clipping
• Renders sprite textures
• (0:28) Adds dynamic colouring (greys coloured at render time)
• Dynamic colouring for floor and sprites
• Switches to 16x16 sprites (double res!)
• Messes around with walls and floors designs
• Tests screen sizes and scaling
• (1:00) Tests performance and lots-of-sprites
• Tweaks the shading a bit
• Added dithering
• Added a "post-process" step for rendering tweaks
• Added per-block colouring
• Added per-level floor and roof colouring
• (1:35) Drew a custom font
• Created a font renderer

Part 2b: "Getting so tired now" (2h 00)

Part 2b direct link

• Snack time!
• Created a "level" png file
• Added level loader from png
• Added cache for loaded levels
• Started crashing everything with texture bug
• (0:24) Spawn a player from a colour on png
• Fixed rendering directions (things were rendered mirrored)
• Tested adding sprites via pixels on png
• Started adding game design elements (iron bars)
• (0:44) Made blocking sprites: first room!
• Interactable blocks: push-button wall
• Fixed artwork manager
• Created "switch" block class
• Added particle-like smashing to block
• (1:20) Minecraft-esque smash-a-thon
• Bit of level design
• Add popup message system
• "Freedom is temporary and unsatisfying"
• Add "Click to focus" when screen unfocused

Part 2c: The end of day one (0h 40m)

Part 2c direct link

• Refactored/cleaned up "blocks with entities" handling
• Added boulder entity
• Added entity collision detection
• Added rolling boulders
• Added floor holes
• Off to bed

Part 3: Early the next day (1h 13m)

After a smashing first day of fierce programming, we now rejoin the action on Sunday morning, 8am.
Part 3a direct link

• Good morning!
• Added chest block
• Draw some pick up items
• Made game panel GUI (life and pickups)
• Rendered currently held item
• Added water texture
• (1:04) Added head bobbing when moving

{Footage missing: adding using pickup items}

Part 3b (0h 37m)

Part 3b direct link

Part 4: A plan comes together (2h 00m)

14 hours: 8 parts.
Part 4a direct link

• Adds a torch entity
• Creating a dynamic lighting system
• Bails on lighting system and removes added code

Part 4: The rest...

• Part 4b (2h 00m)
• Part 4c (2h 00m)
• Part 4d (2h 00m)
• Part 4e (2h 00m)
• Part 4f (2h 00m)
• Part 4g (2h 00m)

Part 4h: I will go to sleep now (0h 43m)

The final part... Part 4h direct link

The End

Well well well... what a rollercoaster ride that was... highs, lows, chicken, dub step: we had it all, and at the end of the day the game was the real winner. That's all from us here at Lundum Dare #21, until next time - happy coding.