Screenshot Saturday - Fresh as Fish

GangFight is a side-scrolling shooter game that I started to make a few days ago. It will be like old school arcade games. Also, I'm planing to add melee combat.

I will report weekly the development process and share images, videos, experiences. All these will be under the title of Screenshot Saturday. This week I will be presenting the images for characters and backgrounds. Of course, they're placeholder and as you can guess I draw them all by myself. It is better to use these kind of place holder images rather then one-color squares or circles. It's all about motivation I think.

Let's see the first drawings for the game.

The main character. The coolest bad-ass gang member ever. And he never gives up smoking even in a fight.

A member of Gang-H. Obviously, this gang have some fashion problems. And they're one of our enemies.

 The only road that you can see Ceasers Palace, El Capitan and Palms Casino side by side. This is also first scene of the game.

I'm making this game by using Java and Slick. And on the programming side, so far I made the followings:

• Movement of player
• Shooting towards the direction between player and mouse.
• Basic enemy spawner
• Main menu

So many things about the game is uncertain. There are a lot of things that I haven't started to think about. In this time, I want to be spontaneous and unorganized. For that reason, the game may be changed entirely in future.

[UPDATE] Now code for this project is on my Github. Fork me!

JURUMP - My first game

Yes, Jurump is my first game. Me and Efe Alaçamlı made it together. Click here to read his blog post about Jurump. (Link for the game is below this post.)

We made this game in fall, 2011 for the course called Introduction to Computer Games. This is the course which I meet game programming and love it. Obviously, this was my favourite course, I always looked forward to this course whole week. Other than those, another thing that I remember is how excited and enthusiastic I was. I hope these never ends.

Let's talk about the game now. It's side scrolling 2D platform game. We are trying to save Ali, who is the main character, from alien invasion. He is on the roof of the buildings during this escape. He shouldn't fall into the gaps between buildings and hit aliens. Also, there are four bonuses he can take. These are super jump, temporary protection, speed up and whistle. The goal of the game is finishing the levels faster.

We programmed this game in Java and used Slick2D library. This was a good and rough experience. I remember that we had trouble coding jumping. Because we wanted to simulate gravity in a right way. The character was shaking when he touches the ground. But we did some value changing and solved the problem.

And finally this game came out:

We made this "How to play" screen but some people didn't go there and they never used the bonuses. 

Click here to download the game. Java gives security warning, click no to play.