Brute force conversion from Java to Javascript
A little dive into the tech to brute force translate games into HTML5 web versions runnable in “any” browser
Category: Techtalk
Developer update of the week – Regulator City
Another week of game development, resulting in fixes, tweaks, updates and improvements! Read up on what’s new and done this past week at the Orangepixel offices.
Adding CO-OP mode to Regulator City
Another week of game development, resulting in fixes, tweaks, updates and improvements! Read up on what’s new and done this past week at the Orangepixel offices.
Regulator City devlog update
Another week of game development, resulting in fixes, tweaks, updates and improvements! Read up on what’s new and done this past week at the Orangepixel offices.
Regulator City super abilities needed a change
Another week of game development, resulting in fixes, tweaks, updates and improvements! Read up on what’s new and done this past week at the Orangepixel offices.
Developer update of the week – Regulator City
Another week of game development, resulting in fixes, tweaks, updates and improvements! Read up on what’s new and done this past week at the Orangepixel offices.
Small game improvements make all the difference
Another week of game development, resulting in fixes, tweaks, updates and improvements! Read up on what’s new and done this past week at the Orangepixel offices.
Mapping out space and tweaking dungeons in this week’s dev update
Another week of game development, resulting in fixes, tweaks, updates and improvements! Read up on what’s new and done this past week at the Orangepixel offices.
Diving back into existing galaxies
Another week of game development, resulting in fixes, tweaks, updates and improvements! Read up on what’s new and done this past week at the Orangepixel offices.
Developer update of the week – Gauntlet of Power
Another week of game development, resulting in fixes, tweaks, updates and improvements! Read up on what’s new and done this past week at the Orangepixel offices.
The forgotten Sewers returns to the Regulator City
Gauntlet of Power get’s some work done on a fully functional, releasable DEMO for June’s Steam Next Fest, and Regulator City regains the Sewers as means of getting into buildings and missions!
Cross game development on Regulator City and Gauntlet of Power
A very productive week where the focus was on two games at the same time. Adding achievements to both games, and also fixing bugs and tiny new features in both!
Introducing a K9 (dog) unit to Regulator City
Spending most of the week implementing and testing the save game and load game functionality. To top that off some fun work introducing the K9 dog unit and giving it some great functionality
Adding meta game and unlockables to Regulator City
With the core gameplay being on track, this weeks focus was on adding and working out the meta game features to unlock characters, collect items, and upgrade player stats.
Regulator Cities built in level editor
This week most of the work has been on improving and adding a bunch of new features to the built in level editor for Regulator City. These features then allowed to design bigger and better maps with some of the new gameplay features like ventilation shafts, lasers, and hidden collectibles
Finding new gameplay mechanics for Regulator City
Another week of game development, resulting in fixes, tweaks, updates and improvements! Read up on what’s new and done this past week at the Orangepixel offices.
A new character enters the Orangepixel universe: The Janitor
A new character enters the Orangepixel Universe, The Janitor, and you might start seeing him pop up in more games pretty soon! This week also saw Gauntlet of Power getting really close to feature-complete and ready to ship status!
Spending a week in the dungeon, and collecting Runes
The dungeons have never looked cleaner! As we polish up the Gauntlet of Power game and getting it ready for release. This week we added character unlock tokens, Rune’s and an unexpected visit in the new intro animation!
Animating the world of Space Grunts and implementing inventory system, a GIF dump
Work on Space Grunts 3 continued some more in the first week of January 2024, so space got more animated with characters, enemy intelligence, and an inventory system!
First footage of Space Grunts 3 and Ashworld coming to Nintendo Switch!
First week of the year, juggling a bunch of projects, but I decided to focus on the new prototype and get it up and running before the next few weeks will be all about the main projects again.
Building a community Discord Bot
Orangepixel’s main hub: The Discord now runs it’s own bot called TheOri. It manages the server, gives news, updates, sales discounts and a little fun gameplay elements to the server. Here’s how it’s build!
The warrior and the wizard come loaded with weapons!
A fresh new demo build of the Heroes of Loot: Gauntlet of Power beta comes with new characters and improved weapons.
Going old-school: converting Gunslugs to Megadrive / Genesis
Started as a side project, Gunslugs is now a real game written for the Sega Megadrive / Genesis. Read up on the technical magic that made it happen!
Regulator City – the goal
Regulator City is the current game in development at Orangepixel, let’s talk about what triggered the game’s development and the roadmap
Tech talk: Faking lights in 2D games
A very simple, and fast solution to adding fake lights to any flat 2D scene. It works on both high-res scenes and low (pixelart) scenes. Using a couple of sprite-images and a little blending mode.
Tech talk: How to create a node based mission screen
I wanted to create a node-based mission screen, but had no real idea where to start. Eventually I ended up with a fairly simple solution which works and is easy to implement.. just how I like my code!
Ashworld: The Making Of part 3
No open-world is complete, without inhabitants ! Even in such a post-apocalyptic world, there has to be some survivors and interesting people to make the world believable.
Ashworld: The Making Of part 2
In the first part I told you how I created the open-world of Ashworld. In this part I’ll explain how I link all the buildings, entities and missions into one big adventure.
Ashworld: The Making Of part 1
Creating a game in a genre I officially don’t like. Where to even start, and why to even try it!