Archive for August, 2009

Go Green Ranger Go!

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Got another unit in the works, so here’s a WIP update.

Green units are rangers, with ranged attacks, nothing new other than some cool animations, flying projectiles (that collide on impact), and a few more bats to have fun with.

Mechanics of this encounter are still in progress along with the ability framework. Check back soon for some awesome ability action!

Green Ranger Go!

Green Ranger Go!

Ground Graphics for Unit Movement

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Thanks to Noel at http://www.dncompute.com/blog, I found a great little utility to draw arrows programmatically in flash. This was especially helpful in showing where units will move when you give them a move command. For the curious, here’s the actual article with source included: http://www.dncompute.com/blog/2008/07/17/graphicsutil-a-utility-class-for-drawing-arrows.html

And the demo…
Note, you can now click and drag to move a unit.

Ground Arrow & mouse movement thumbs

Ground Arrow & mouse movement thumbs

Directional Attacks

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Tonight was full of more asset love and lots of underlying model changes to my engine.

The results: Directional attacks for Blockman!

Also, we’re up to 1.3 MB for assets now… it’s probably soon time for a loading progress bar. ;)

Directional Attacks!

Directional Attacks!