Tuesday, January 11, 2011

XNA Game engine status

What have I done so far...

Device - main game engine / framework
Screen states - small framework to handle screens eg. start menu, ingame, options
Input manager - keyboard, mouse, keypad
FPS utility - simple benchmark monitoring
Font manager - handles all font files
Texture manager - handles all texture files
Sound manager - handles all sound files with XACT

GUI manager - button and label with full property and event driven


Cell animation - generate sprite animation out of image / texture files


Scrolling background - layered / parallax driven background images


AI includes Object manager, State machine, Message manager


Physics manager - mass, acceleration, gravity, friction, collision, etc.


Particle manager - simulates particle from texture with physics enabled.


Sadly, for now I can only use Microsoft platform which includes PC, Xbox, and Windows Phone 7. Though all codes should be easily portable to OpenGL so I might decide to use Android and iOS4 along the way.

I think the engine needs finishing and I'm only a few steps away to start creating a real game. I hope to start writing a prototype game next month. What I only need for now is motivation and luck maybe...

Cheers!

26 comments:

  1. Wow I haven't checked your blog for a long time. I must say, that's good progress. Good luck with the game. :)

    I'm also trying to develop games, but for now, I'm focusing developing for the Samsung Champ with Java 2 ME (yeah funny specs hahah but the limitations are pushing my creativity, I guess)

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  2. Great thanks!

    That's cool, at least your codes are properly designed and writtern then porting shouldn't be a problem in the future. Probably you should try out Android and XNA too... well iPhone too if you have or can afford those expensive machines and devices. ;)

    Keep US posted with your game!

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  3. I have been interested in Android development for quite some time. It is mostly because of the relatively more powerful devices that carry the platform. :)

    I will keep people posted once I feel that it is ready to be revealed. At this point, I'm still playing around with the platform and is just starting on a germ of an idea.

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