There’s one thing (well, there are several, but one which I’ll talk about right now) that’s always bothered me a good deal about most MMO combat systems, which is that character position and movement are only very rarely an influential factor. There are a few games that do some interesting things: Aion takes into account [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2d games’
The many faces of battle
Sunday, October 11th, 2009Order of the Draw
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009I’ve decided to follow up yesterday’s rather unorganized post with one that has a bit more planning put into its presentation. Today, we’ll be taking a look at a very specific part of a spriting engine: draw orders. The draw order of your sprites is a crucial element in any spriting system, and optimizing draw [...]
Sprightly Sprites: Bringing game worlds to life
Friday, October 2nd, 2009Today we’ll be shifting gears a bit, and exploring some of the more technical aspects of creating and animating a two-dimensional world. At the heart of two-dimensional animation is the concept of a sprite, a graphic image which can move and change within a larger image. Assuming that your “larger image” might be something along [...]