tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77102807739064811372024-03-13T19:10:03.054-07:00Potion of HealingGame Development Awesomeness with Jon HarwoodAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-73425030830944100562015-12-16T11:27:00.001-08:002015-12-16T11:27:49.881-08:00Warhammer 40 Adventure #13Time for a little self retrospection. I think overall my advanced game design class went pretty well. I got to experience Warhammer 40k a game that I had never played before and probably would have never played otherwise. I learned that google spread sheets are an excellent way to keep track of game mechanics as well as a bit about game design its self. In the end our team created an awesome lizard men codex.<br />
Things that I think I did well were taking initiative and communicating. I think one thing that I could have been better at was memorizing a lot of the mechanics. I think if I were to take the class again I would try to get into the game outside of class. I think playing outside of class definitely helped Jason and Ryan to know the game a bit better than I did.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-12804134392586734982015-11-28T16:00:00.002-08:002015-11-28T16:00:24.816-08:00Warhammer 40k Adventure #12<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Large Salamander is a Unit Meant to be similar to the Carnosaur but focused around a flame template ability. My interpretation of this was to take the Carnosaur, Give it the Flame Sac weapon and then decrease some of its stats to balance it with the Regular Carnosaurs. At the time I called it the Carnamander. I thought it would be cool if the lizardmen had somehow mixed the DNA of the Salamanders and the Carnosaurs together to create a Carnosaur, Salamander hybrid but unfortunately the Leads were intent on just calling it the Large Salamander.</div>
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These are the Psycic Powers for the Skink Priests. They were later named Ascended Rites. These were primarily adapted from spells from the Lizardmen Fantasy Codex. That helped with balancing them and also satisfied Garretts obsession with taking inpspiration from the fantasy book. However I thought it was strange that the spells in the fantasy codex had very little fluff associated with them. I had a little bit of diffculty adapting Fiery Convocation. The fire in WH Fantasy doesn't work exactly alike to WH 40k so I had to do a bit of research to find the proper solution.</div>
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I was excited to work on the Double Sided Chainsword Weapon simply because of the name of the weapon. When I made the weapon I wanted to reflect the double sided nature of the weapon by giving it two attacks. Unfortunately the amount of attacks is determined by the character and not the weapon so I gave it a very complicated effect that boosted its A stat during the assault phase. However the wording of the effect confused many of my team mates so it was turned to the current effect listed. </div>
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The Multiple Missile Launcher is primarily an Adaptation of another Missile Launcher from WH 40k. Didn't require much creativity or balancing for this one but I did the task so I thought I would include it.</div>
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This task required me to create an upgrade for the Skink Snipers that adds Rending to their rifles. Fulfilling it was fairly simple. I took the stats for the sniper rifle then added rending and an upgrade cost. I called it the thermite rifle because thermite is a compound used to breach heavy armor and I though having a rifle that shoots such a deadly concoction was a neat idea.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-20253968137593183952015-10-07T19:59:00.002-07:002015-10-07T19:59:40.428-07:00Warhammer 40k Adventure #7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two special rules! The first is called Razor Scales and the idea is that some of the Lizardmen have very sharp scales that help them in combat. The Second is called Limb Regrowth and the concept is that like some lizards in real life, certain Lizardmen can regrow their limbs after the have been dismembered.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-22581151001967624572015-10-07T13:35:00.000-07:002015-10-07T13:35:10.614-07:00Warhammer 40k Adventure #6Psychic Powers!<br />
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Using the Tyranid powers for balance reference, I designed theses powers. The Mechanics lead said that some of them were a little overpowered so I balanced them by increasing the warp charge for those powers.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-87260234873110212642015-10-07T13:20:00.001-07:002015-10-07T13:20:51.885-07:00Warhammer 40k Adventure #5We have finally gotten to the whole point of the class which is design our own race a class team. We are doing Garret's idea for bringing the War Hammer Fantasy Race the Lizardmen to Warhammer 40k. My first task was to create special issue war gear for the Lizardmen.<br />
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Many of the initial Wargear were based off Space Marine Wargear and then were renamed and slightly modified. But later items were ideas they I came up with on my own once I became more familiar with the game.</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-58369726749677707632015-10-05T11:01:00.001-07:002015-10-05T11:01:24.075-07:00Warhammer 40k Adventure #4It must be said that Holy Cranola! These figures are Hecka cool. I could honestly see someone just purchasing the figures and not even playing the game.I imagine thousands of hours can be spent just building a cool army and painting it and giving each of the characters their own unique backstory. Warhammer is pretty unique in the sense that you don't even need to play the game to have fun with it. It can become a hobby similar to building a model railway. Also I just had a cool idea what if trains were incorporated into Warhammer somehow. I might return to that thought in a later blog. Trains.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-32177789822230196972015-10-05T10:38:00.002-07:002015-10-05T10:38:54.104-07:00Warhammer 40K Adventure #3Third day of class. Randomness seems to be a major component of Warhammer. Even more so than D&D which is a game completely characterized by how things can go awesomely right or wrong. I wouldn't have expected their to be this much left to chance in such a competitive game. But I suppose one thing that makes this game so unique is the amount of risks that need to be weighed when making decisions. When one decides to do something they must account if their roll will be high or low or where the scatter dice may take them. Players must have back up plans behind back up plans behind back up plans in the off chance a roll does not work in their favor.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-62045019574517711172015-10-03T12:22:00.001-07:002015-10-03T12:22:29.142-07:00Warhammer 40k Adventure #2Second Day of Advanced Game Design and now we are rolling a 1000 point Tyranid Army. With Hormagaunts and a Carnifax along with the Hive Tyrant and Gene Stealers from last time. I really like the unit buy system in this game because of its simplicity. When selecting units you are given a certain amount of points to spend on Units/Equipment. Each Unit/Equipment has a certain cost associated with it and the cost is balanced so that powerful units are more expensive and weaker units are cheaper. This simple restriction prevents any army from being absurdly more powerful than another while also allowing the player to be creative and to come up with their own strategies when selecting their army.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-25859056029814222722015-10-01T15:47:00.000-07:002015-10-01T15:47:22.433-07:00Warhammer 40K Adventure #1New Semester! New Class! We are Playing and Modding Warhammer 40K this semester. First day of class we got right to it and started playing. I was on a team with a number of fellow students. That day my team played the Tyranids, a malevolent race of bug aliens that closely resemble the work of HR Geiger. Our team faced the Crimson Slaughter race. Tyranids winded up winning because of the prior experience of Garett Poenitish. The game seemed very complicated, but after a few hours of play and some instructional YouTube videos the game was still super complicated. though now I do understand it better. One thing I was disappointed about mechanically was that almost all dice rolls are based off of d6s. Coming from D&D I was expecting Warhammer to show types of dice I had never even seen before. It did show me how Scatter Dice worked but other than that I'm a little let down. One mechanic that I do love about Warhammer though is the way you move the models around the field. Its very simple. You have an amount of inches that you can move. Then you measure out with a ruler or tape measure where you want your unit to move. I liked this mechanic so much I actually worked it into the overland movement system of my current D&D campaign.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-28835179496246384832015-05-18T19:25:00.001-07:002015-05-18T19:25:34.619-07:00The Bizarre Beast that is ScopeIn my adventures as a game developers some projects that I have been a part of have turned out fantastic. Some projects have not and most of these projects have failed because they are to large in scope. Different people have different definitions of scope but I like to define scope as the sum of all resources needed to complete a project to satisfaction. For example you can say that the scope of making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is relatively low because making a Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich only requires one person and several small simple components. Whereas an FPS MMO Role Playing CCG would be relatively large in scope because it would require a large team developing many different abstract and complicated systems simultaneously.<br />
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According to this definition, Scope seems pretty easy to understand. So why do so many teams struggle with scope? The answer is because many teams fail to account for the TOTAL Sum of all resources needed for the project. For example, in our PB and J example It was listed that we needed one person and several different components. Many would list the components of a PBJ to be: Peanut Butter, Jelly, Bread and probably a knife to spread the Jelly and the Peanut Butter. One component that many don't list is the Time it takes to make the PBJ. What about the time it takes to learn how to make a PBJ if you have never made one before? Did you account for the time it takes to gather your resources? Did you account for the time it would take to clean up any messes if any were made? Did you remember to clean the knife between using it on Peanut Butter and Jelly Jars? Did you remember to clean your knife at all to avoid consuming any harmful bacteria.<br />
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I think that many would say that a Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich takes less than 3 minutes to make. I would estimate that a Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich requires 6 - 9 minutes depending on what you have handy and maybe a lot longer if you have to go to the store. This may not seem like a huge deal when we are talking in minutes but if a project is scheduled for a year of development time this can completely cripple a company if the project needs thrice the time that was planned for. Also Error only increases as you add more parts to the project. The seemingly quaint one year project can easily turn into 7 year one depending on feature creep, morale and other outside factors. It also gets more complicated as time goes on. Are the people working on the project are the same ones that were working on it when it started? How long will it take them to learn their way around the project? What technical debt have you accrued through years? Is the hardware you were developing for outdated now?<br />
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There are a few practices I use to help manage the scope of my projects. One practice that I get into the habit of doing is letting Practicality inform my design. I will often get really awesome exciting ideas that I think will impress a lot of people and I will happily cut them or write them down for later if I think it is going to be to difficult or time consuming for the value that they bring to the project. Some might say that that stifles creativity. And yes it does but that is the point of the practice. I also am very aware of how long something is taking. If a project is just taking to long to get to a professional level of Quality or Quantity I will scrap the project and start looking for a new one. Some will say that this is a waste of work and you should just finish it but often times you can finish several properly scoped projects in the time it takes to finish one out scoped one. And chances are if it was out scoped in the first place, the Quality or Quantity may be lacking. In general to avoid out scoping a project you should keep it simple. You should not worry about making the next big thing. You should not even worry about improving over your last project. Just worry about making something Fun, Cool and finishing it in an amount of time that you feel comfortable with.<br />
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Bought A Wacom Tablet. Gonna take a while to get used to it. I think my Demon Heart Turned out alright though. I blew up the original Demon Heart sprite and then traced over it using a brush in gimp. I think I'm going to practice drawing Pokemon next.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-55097055878346447622015-04-25T14:56:00.003-07:002015-04-25T14:56:45.241-07:00Juicy Juicy Greenlight Stats!Check out my breakdown of Demon Hearts' green light stats on the Jon Harwood Creations Company Blog: <a href="http://www.jonharwoodcreations.com/2015/04/demon-hearts-greenlight-break-down.html" target="_blank">http://www.jonharwoodcreations.com/2015/04/demon-hearts-greenlight-break-down.html</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-64336604634967408622015-04-19T07:39:00.001-07:002015-04-19T07:39:24.964-07:00Don't Break The Chain: Double Follow Up All The Way!The Don't Break the Chain system that I stole from Jerry Seinfeld seems to be working incredibly well at this point. I have ceased using it to keep track of how long I work on Demon Hearts everyday and have started using it to motivate me to make a singular level every day. I currently have 40 levels in Demon Hearts. I am super satisfied at how many levels I have made using this system. I made a level just about every day(Some days I redid levels I wasn't happy with.). <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As you can see I started on March 4th and have been doing it to now April 19. You will notice that some of the dates are Xed out with yellow instead of pink. These are days a specifically designated not to make a level. I designated those days because I was very busy preparing for and going to the Midwest Gaming Classic. Overall I am super happy with this system. Thanks Jerry.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-7707610976314687682015-04-15T16:26:00.000-07:002015-04-15T16:26:30.301-07:00Mid West Gaming Classic! Awesome Time! Awesome Exposure!This weekend I had the fortune of showing off Demon Hearts at the Midwest Gaming Classic. It was an excellent time I got to hangout and network with a lot of different Game Developers, Journalists, Cos players and Game Enthusiasts. I also believe my attendance of the event to be one of the core reasons that Demon Hearts got greenlit. I cannot thank the Wisconsin Chapter of the IGDA enough for the chance to attend.<br />
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It was greenlit after being on Green Light for 14 days. It was at 72% when it happened. I will release more greenlight data soon. Thank you everyone for all your support! I love you all. <3Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-6242666692318794222015-04-04T16:50:00.002-07:002015-04-04T16:50:59.700-07:00ScreenShotSaturday :3#ScreenShotSaturday<br />
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<span id="goog_328377874"></span><span id="goog_328377875"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05253741886598897995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710280773906481137.post-46397362955190380982015-03-04T08:01:00.001-08:002015-03-04T08:01:18.439-08:00Dont Break the Chain: A Follow UpA few posts ago I discussed a performance tracking system called Don't Break the Chain. This is a follow up of its progress and results. You can find the original post <a href="http://potionofhealing.blogspot.com/2015/02/dont-break-chain-one-week-in.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Don't Break the Chain involves getting or making a physical calender and then every day that you make progress towards your goal you put a big X through that day. The idea is that it will make a large and difficult goal seem more like a number of small and easy tasks.<br />
The goal that I was trying to reach using this system was to work on my projects every day. What I found was that while it did a good job at motivating me to work on my projects every day, The problem that I was having was the length at which I worked on my projects every day, not the frequency. When I realized this I thought that I would just have my daily goal be to work a certain amount of hours every day. The problem with this was if I chose the amount of hours in the daily goal to be 3 hours, I would only work 3 hours every day even when I could work longer. When I found this out I realized that maybe this system only really works with things that only last a few minutes.<br />
Now I have found a goal that I think will work really well with this system. One of the things that I find most tedious about making video games is designing levels. And so for the project that I am currently working on, I am going to design a level every day and keep track of it on my new Store Bought Calender. Wish Me Luck.<br />
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Thanks For The System Jerry. <3<br />
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