The old program is unfortunately long lost, and I deleted the textures and such, leaving only this screenshot as proof this test project existed.
This was my project learning how to do simple programming in a first person shooter. The enemy is a skeleton I pulled from the internet, the rest of the visuals I whipped up quickly. It wasn’t about havingt great visuals, this was closer to trying to make a greybox to learn programming. I made this project with the goal of having simple enemy interactions and working health.
Thanks to my inability to program I ended up with a player character that could be killed, but the enemy did not have working health. The bullets of the gun were actual projectiles and with some settings actually interacted with the skeleton and pushed it back. The final state was a skeleton that was smart enough to chase the player if the player appeared in the field of view, and attack the player if close enough. The player had infinite full auto fire that could push the skeleton back without killing it.
Oh wow this gave me a wave of nostalgia for my first experience developing games. I took a class in like middle school for game development, and they provided the software Alice for the course.
I fondly remember trying to make a first person, open world sandbox RPG, but if I remember correctly, the engine not being able to create new instances of anything severely limited what I wanted to do. Also, the engine had a ton of floating point precision issues and everything would be rotated in funny ways after the game was running for a long time. And I hated the visual programming and got so frustrated that I couldn’t just type the scripts instead haha… that’s when I switched to GameMaker
Anyway, I was reminded of it because the first enemies in my game were also sword-wielding skeletons just like in the OP screenshots. I appreciate the peak into your past, and I’m thankful for that nostalgia hit :3
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Oh wow this gave me a wave of nostalgia for my first experience developing games. I took a class in like middle school for game development, and they provided the software Alice for the course.
I fondly remember trying to make a first person, open world sandbox RPG, but if I remember correctly, the engine not being able to create new instances of anything severely limited what I wanted to do. Also, the engine had a ton of floating point precision issues and everything would be rotated in funny ways after the game was running for a long time. And I hated the visual programming and got so frustrated that I couldn’t just type the scripts instead haha… that’s when I switched to GameMaker
Anyway, I was reminded of it because the first enemies in my game were also sword-wielding skeletons just like in the OP screenshots. I appreciate the peak into your past, and I’m thankful for that nostalgia hit :3