Fall ’20 Game Jam Recap – Knox Game Design, October 2020

October 24, 2020Game Competition Entries, Podcast, Show and TellKnox Game Design

A recap of the Fall ’20 game jam plus a post mortem. Also what others on the Knox Game Design Discord have been developing.

If you are interested in attending a Knox Game Design meeting either virtually or in-person, let us know!

Links and Notes

Game jam keynotes – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/$212263/welcome-to-ludum-dare-47-ps-we-start-early
Circuitus Infinitus entry – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/circuitus-infinitus
George Rhoads ball machine – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UaWaZYjcE
George Rhoads interview – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM3NWMr2l10
Time lapse maker – https://github.com/levidsmith/timelapsemaker
Unity Helper – https://github.com/levidsmith/UnityHelper
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

Time lapse development videos

Hosted by Levi D. Smith

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MonoGame – Knox Game Design, September 2020

September 25, 2020Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

An overview of creating a game with MonoGame. Installation of MonoGame development environment using Visual Studio. Handling input devices such as keyboard, gamepad, and mouse. How to load assets such as sound effects, music, fonts, and sprite images. Examples of simple number guessing game and space shooter in MonoGame and C#. How to convert an XNA game to MonoGame.

Hosted by Levi D. Smith

MonoGame source code – https://github.com/levidsmith/MonoGameExamples

Links and Notes

MonoGame – https://www.monogame.net/
XNA to MonoGame guide by Levi D. Smith – XnaToMonogame.pdf
XNA Game Studio Redistributable Font Pack – https://github.com/SimonDarksideJ/XNAGameStudio/wiki/Redistributable-Font-Pack
Beginning MonoGame – http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/06/232974.aspx
MonoGame Tutorial – https://gamefromscratch.com/monogame-tutorial-series/
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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BBS Games, VT100, and ANSI Graphics – Knox Game Design August 2020

August 21, 2020Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

An overview of BBS (Bulletin Board System) games from the 1990s. How to connect to a telnet BBS to play DOOR games. Creating ANSI graphics with ACiD draw in DOSBox. VT100 color codes explained. A simple telnet server created in Ruby, which displays system time, counts to ten, displays an ANSI file, and has a number guessing game.

Hosted by Levi D. Smith

Ruby source code – https://github.com/levidsmith/SimpleRubyServer

Links and Notes

Telnet BBS Guide – https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
VT100 codes – http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences-vt-100.php
VT100 codes – http://www.climagic.org/mirrors/VT100_Escape_Codes.html
VT100 codes – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#CSI_sequences
Old School Font PC Resource – https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/download/
Telnet protocol – https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc854
ACiD Productions (ACiDDraw) – http://www.acid.org/
PuTTY – https://putty.org/
DOSBox – https://www.dosbox.com/
Ruby – https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Color – Knox Game Design, July 2020

July 24, 2020Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

An overview of color for game developers. How various colors are made on the computer using RGB and HSV formats. The color spectrum and the ROY G BIV order for colors. Where visible color exists on the electromagnetic wavelength scale. Color displays on CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) and LED (Light Emitting Diode) devices. Converting between color representation in float, decimal, and hex formats. Difference between hue, saturation, and value. Various modifiers in the Gimp image editor such as Colorize, Posterize, Color Balance, and layers. Console color palettes and historical video modes. Color pickers and other tools for making color themes.

Links and Notes

Color wheel from Adobe – https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel
Color Picker – https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Pygame – Knox Game Design, June 2020

June 14, 2020Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

This month we learn how to create games in Python using the Pygame library.

1:30 – News
6:13 – Showoff: Unity Helper and new leaderboard features
11:47 – Pygame (feature presentation)

Hosts

Jacob	ldjam.com/users/jacobturn/games		gamejolt.com/@Big_Ol_Tom
Jeffry	http://www.thingiverse.com/insane66
Levi D. Smith	levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	gatechgrad.itch.io

Links and Notes

Pygame examples (Number Guess, Shooter, Koi-Koi) – https://github.com/levidsmith/PythonProjects
Python download site – www.python.org/downloads
Pygame site – https://www.pygame.org/news
Procedurally Generating Potted Plants in Unity – https://www.dylanwolf.com/2020/05/11/ludum-dare-46-procedurally-generating-potted-plants-in-unity/
Dylan’s Pico-8 talk at Momocon – https://www.knoxgamedesign.org/1361/joy-of-game-development-momocon-2020/
Unreal Engine 5 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WHnY-hcFro
KnoxPy – https://knoxpy.org/
Jared’s Dungeon Game in Java – https://github.com/BlackJar72/DungeonGame
Levi’s UnityHelper application in Ruby – https://github.com/levidsmith/UnityHelper
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Spring ’20 Game Jam Entries and Leaderboard Security – Knox Game Design, May 2020

May 25, 2020Meetings, Podcast, Presentations, Show and TellKnox Game Design

This month we show off our games created for Spring ’20. Levi D. Smith also talks about leaderboard security.

0:58 – News – BitBucket discontinues Mercurial, migration to GitHub
9:43 – Raising Cerberus by James
15:54 – Machina by Jacob
23:50 – Potted Plant Simulator by Dylan
46:02 – Chicken Little by Levi
52:33 – Leaderboard Security presentation

Hosts

Jacob	ldjam.com/users/jacobturn/games		gamejolt.com/@Big_Ol_Tom
Dylan Wolf	www.dylanwolf.com	@DylanWolf	dylanwolf.itch.io
Levi D. Smith	levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	gatechgrad.itch.io

Links and Notes

Machina by Jacob – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/machina
Potted Plant Simulator by Dylan – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/potted-plant-simulator
Raising Cerberus by James – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/raising-cerberus
Chicken Little by Levi – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/chicken-little
MD5 Reverser – https://md5.gromweb.com/
ILSpy – https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy
DevXUnity – https://www.devxdevelopment.com/
uTinyRipper – https://github.com/mafaca/UtinyRipper
dotPeek – https://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/
Fiddler – https://www.telerik.com/fiddler
What’s My IP – https://www.whatsmyip.org/
Just Something You Have the Urge To Do – https://levidsmith.com/historical/whittling/
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Spring ’20 Game Jam Kickoff – Knox Game Design, April 2020

April 29, 2020Meetings, PodcastKnox Game Design

Jacob, Dylan, and Levi get together before the Spring ’20 theme announcement to talk about their thoughts on the possible themes.

0:52 – Possible game jam night in Tennessee
7:10 – Dylan’s water color work
19:08 – Game jam theme discussion
59:05 – Tools we are planning to use for the game jam
1:15:30 – Jacob’s thoughts on the game jam themes
1:21:00 – Hanafuda Koi Koi in Python / Preview of upcoming PyGame talk

Hosts

Dylan Wolf	www.dylanwolf.com	@DylanWolf	dylanwolf.itch.io
Jacob	ldjam.com/users/jacobturn/games		gamejolt.com/@Big_Ol_Tom
Levi D. Smith	levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	gatechgrad.itch.io

Links and Notes

Kuretake Water Color set – https://www.jetpens.com/Kuretake-Gansai-Tambi-Watercolor-Palette-48-Color-Set/pd/27159
Dylan’s RedBubble site – https://www.redbubble.com/people/dylanwolf/shop
Nashville Game Developers – https://nashgame.dev/
Game jam Final Round themes – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/theme/4
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Promotion and Feedback – Knox Game Design, March 2020

March 14, 2020Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

This month we talk about ways to promote your game and how to handle feedback on your game.

Hosts

Dylan Wolf	www.dylanwolf.com/	@DylanWolf	dylanwolf.itch.io
Levi D. Smith	levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	gatechgrad.itch.io
Ruth Ann	http://meemawsurrendered.com/		https://tranzeve.itch.io/
Jared	github.com/BlackJar72		jaredbgreat.itch.io

Links and Notes

East Tennessee Content Creator event at Token Game Tavern (March 15, 2020) – https://www.facebook.com/events/664493714306082
Spring ’20 game jam event at Panera (April 17, 2020 at 7pm Eastern Time) – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46
Makefile syntax reference – https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
Levi’s Taylor Series spreadsheet for calculating sine – https://levidsmith.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/taylor_series_sine.xlsx
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) – https://obsproject.com/
VLC Media Player – https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Wizard of Oz prototyping – https://uxpajournal.org/wizard-oz-woz/
Resistor feedback from GameMarx – https://web.archive.org/web/20121017013427/http://www.gamemarx.com/news/2012/09/16/words-of-wisdom-for-new-indie-game-developers.aspx
Wipeout – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XASEBvDri4U
Blue Ocean Strategy (Red Oceans vs Blue Oceans) – https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/what-are-red-blue-oceans/
Flutter – https://flutter.dev/
Flutter 101: How to make health apps in Android/iOS – https://www.amia.org/flutter-101-how-make-health-apps-androidios
Vector Conference at EKU Richmond, Kentucky (April 24-25, 2020) – http://vectorconf.com/
- Update – Vector Conference is Online only this year
Godot Communities – https://godotengine.org/article/call-volunteers-organizing-regional-communities
Graphics Gale – https://graphicsgale.com/us/
Middle Tennessee Game Developers Directory – https://nashgame.dev/developers/

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Java Game Development – Knox Game Design, February 2020

February 12, 2020Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsGameDev, JavaKnox Game Design

This month’s topic is Creating Games with Java. We discuss the basics of Java and how to create simple games with the language.

Source Code for Java Examples

Hosts

Jared	github.com/BlackJar72		jaredbgreat.itch.io
Jacob	ldjam.com/users/jacobturn/games		gamejolt.com/@Big_Ol_Tom
Jeffry	www.thingiverse.com/insane66
Dylan Wolf	www.dylanwolf.com/	@DylanWolf	dylanwolf.itch.io
Levi D. Smith	levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	gatechgrad.itch.io

Links and Notes

JDK (Java Development Kit) download – https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
OpenJDK source code – https://hg.openjdk.java.net/
Levi’s Java projects – https://github.com/gatechgrad/GeorgiaTechProjects/tree/master/java
Discord Game Store – https://discordapp.com/sell-your-game
Mike Garcia’s blog – http://mgarcia.org/Blog/2019-12-31-The-social-media-feedback-loop
Mister Adventure – https://levidsmith.com/games/mister-adventure/
Hero Power, Knoxville Hearthstone podcast –
https://www.youtube.com/user/ecmmogamers
KnoxDevs Web – https://knoxdevs.com/ Slack – https://knoxdevs.slack.com
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Blender for Unity – Knox Game Design, January 2020

January 14, 2020Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

This month’s topic is Blender for Unity. We will go over the basics of modeling and texturing an object in Blender. Then we will import that model into Unity and add behaviors through C# code.

Hosts

Ruth Ann	http://meemawsurrendered.com/		https://tranzeve.itch.io/
Jeffry	http://www.thingiverse.com/insane66
Jacob	http://ldjam.com/users/jacobturn/games		https://gamejolt.com/@Big_Ol_Tom
Dylan Wolf	https://www.dylanwolf.com/	@DylanWolf	https://dylanwolf.itch.io
Levi D. Smith	https://levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	https://gatechgrad.itch.io

Links and Notes

Blender 2.80 – https://www.blender.org/
Gimp – https://www.gimp.org/
Unity – https://unity.com/
BlackJar72’s projects, Knight Ferret Engine for creating 2D games in Java – https://github.com/BlackJar72?tab=repositories
Oculus Link for Oculus Quest – https://support.oculus.com/444256562873335/
More GameMaker tutorials from Drew – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07AXuEpYTno&list=PLjoLbN1uRJGx5FgCUhYjh5R4lj7gEUtPJ
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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