Comments on: Task 1

By: devra29

devra29 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:46:21 +0000

Finally made something. It’s not really a game, but I learned how to do several tasks. I went over the one hour time limit, but it still has a long way to go. http://planetkodu.com/disappearing-trees-v03/992

By: richard

richard — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:36:52 +0000

Finally made a game this week. It is a platform game, very simple as I was trying to keep to the one hour time limit.

http://planetkodu.com/platform-cycle-multi-level/990

By: nikwing

nikwing — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:45:29 +0000

My 1st game: http://planetkodu.com/apple-defencegame-v01/988

By: Mustard

Mustard — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:54:46 +0000

Edit: Funnier boo-boo, i uploaded a test version where you only need 2 coins to win. Silly me.

By: corrie

corrie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:22:22 +0000

Fish3 isn’t a game so much as an exploration of flocking, spawning, and predator avoidance.

By: Mustard

Mustard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:16:36 +0000

The game took me a little longer than an hour, because the environment crashed on two occasions. Thankfully though, on the second occurance i had saved more recently.
On one crash the menu disappeared and I could not even save or quit. On the other occasion it just locked up. I tryed to account for redoing, and still have my “net time” under an hour.

The biggest thing I had to overcome was the lack of an “and” statement of sorts. ie. If the bad robot saw the hero bot, AND he was on a certain type of land, do… this, but otherwise, do something else.
This REALLY limits the possibilities and complexities, which i can see as both good AND bad (I made a funny )
I dunno, maybe i just haven’t found it yet, but it seemed very restricting at the outset.

Other than that the only real issues i had were small things like trying to make sure the robots patrolled and hunted correctly.
I was also perplexed on how to create “safe” zones that the evil robots could not enter, based on the land type, and had to settle by stunning them. The was not what I really wanted, but it works. I would really like it if you could have objects sense terrain types more than just what you are currently standing on. So you could create programs to “seek out” different land types. Again maybe you can… i just havn’t figured it out yet.

It also took me a minute to figure out that you could not give objects to some things (ie. buildings) which made me change the game, early on, to feeding a child robot coins, rather than collecting coins at home, which I had initially wanted, as well.

Beyond that, I made a funny boo-boo, when the clock ended my time, as i realized that I had placed 11 coins but only required the user to pick up 10 to win.
Oh well.

Fun stuff, can’t wait to play around with it more, and also what you guys have in store for us to learn.

By: Mustard

Mustard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:03:38 +0000

Grab it and Run! by Mustard, can be found at http://planetkodu.com/grab-it-and-run/986

By: richard

richard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:37:34 +0000

Hungry Hungry Kodu by jjabraham can be found at http://planetkodu.com/hungry-hungry-kodu/984