Legend of Sky Wizards - But from the side

Devlog

• Game Launched!
  June 04, 2025 by kerobers

  I have submitted this game for grading, a download is available on Itch!... Continue reading
• Level 1 - 4
  June 01, 2025 by kerobers

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• Tutorial Level
  May 30, 2025 by kerobers

  During a demo in class I was informed that the controlls were not to intuitive and to think about adding a screen detailing user inputs, I really didn't want to make a new scene as it's a pain, repeta... Continue reading
• Mobs!
  May 22, 2025 by kerobers

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• Collectable Coins
  May 18, 2025 by kerobers

  After many hours of debugging, I finally have collectable coins drawing in game. Note to future Paul, if your adding content to the game, make sure you load the texture library... Continue reading
• Settings implementation
  May 17, 2025 by kerobers

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• Mob Death
  May 15, 2025 by kerobers

  This video demos a quick run though of the game featuring magic, mobs, mob collision / death and level transitions... Continue reading
• Basic magic added (Fireball)
  May 14, 2025 by kerobers

  Two major additions in a day, I am on fire! Or maybe I accidently hit myself with a fireball... Continue reading
• Level transition added with optimized asset loading
  May 14, 2025 by kerobers

  Today marks a major milestone for development, so much has been added (yet to be optimized). Yesterday and today I have been working on loading the assets (without stalling the game) as well as unload... Continue reading
• Larger platforms run
  May 09, 2025 by kerobers

  I decided it would be better to have larger platforms to allow the player to build up some speed. It also allows for more room for obstacles and entities... Continue reading
• Initial Collisions
  May 02, 2025 by kerobers

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• Basic Movement
  May 02, 2025 by kerobers

  Walking and running has been in from the start to ensure graphics and animations worked correctly, but I have now started to work on this more: This demo shows jumping, falling and landing with some a... Continue reading
• Compilling for Windows
  April 30, 2025 by kerobers

  A requirement for this game is that it must run on a low power PC which emulates an Arcade. After struggling with MinGW on MacOS, I decided the quickest way to get the project running was to copy the... Continue reading

  
• Map loading and drawing on screen
  April 30, 2025 by kerobers

  First attempt to load my custom map files into the game. The maps are created with a proprietary tool that saves the structure of the map as an XML file. Using pugixml in C++ I was able to deserialise... Continue reading
• Texture Library
  April 25, 2025 by kerobers

  The problem: I have thousands of images for my game, how do I store and load them? A bad solution : Create a folder called 'resources' and drop them all in there, name them accordingly: blue_robe_001... Continue reading

  
• Library Editor: Plugin system
  January 31, 2025 by kerobers

  For my game I have created my own file type to store the data and meta data of images. To create, these files I build a tool using C# and AvaloniaUI. Well I first created it in Visual Studio using Win... Continue reading

  
• Hi
  January 27, 2025 by kerobers

  I'm a little late to start the blog from the beginning, so heres a quick synopsis of development so far: I need to create a game with an aspect of 3D, I have always loved the MMO Legend of Mir, and ho... Continue reading