Knox Game Jam 2024 Recap – Knox Game Design, April 2024

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Knox Game Jam 2024 kickoff!  Seven great games were created by the group for the game jam.  Great job everyone!

Minu by Dustin

Minu by Dustin

Claws and Conundrums by James and PandaPuffsForBreakfast

You are somewhat of a know-it-all. Your good friend has reached out for help in a murder case. It is up to you to figure out what summoned creature has killed someone in your village.

Soviet Necromancy by Jacob

You play as a state-sanctioned summoner that summons forth fallen comrades who perished in defending the new-motherland. A colony of Rogue War-Automatons has taken refuge in an ancient service tunnel in the new-motherland’s bowels. Destroy them all.

Save the Mothership by Mike

The Mothership is outnumbered and has taken refuge in an asteroid field.  There are only 5 defense drones left.  Can you stop the enemy drones from destroying it before our fleet arrives to chase off the attackers?

Grayson Alpha by Ethan

Untitled Robot Card Game by Colin and Dogwood

Pick a bot and try to win until the game breaks!

Worker Bees by Levi

Enemy bugs are attacking the bee hive. Spawn worker bees to attack the enemies and protect the hive. Worker bees will orbit around the hive at a constant distance. The bee meter in the upper right corner shows the amount of time remaining until another bee can be spawned. How long will your bee hive last?

Other games recently released by Knox area developers

Impact Zone by Chad

A warp-gate malfunction has landed you smack-dab in the middle of an asteroid field… and a time-space anomaly has you stuck there! Equipped with blasters, a tractor-beam and an energy shield, how long can you survive the Impact Zone?

A Weekend at Camp Oostanaula by Dylan

A 90’s scout camp TTRPG horror setting

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UML with Dia – Knox Game Design, March 2024

Overview of using the Dia tool for creating UML diagrams. UML is a standard for creating various types of diagrams, such as class diagrams, state diagrams, and use case diagrams.

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Texture Mapping – Knox Game Design, February 2024

Explanation of how to create a texture mapped box by reading a BMP image file and displaying with OpenGL.  Then how to create that same texture mapped the box in Blender to export into FBX format.  The model is then imported and displayed multiple different game development environments, such as Unity, MonoGame, Godot, and Unreal Engine.

Texture mapping code examples  – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/texturemap

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OpenGL – Knox Game Design, January 2024

Introduction to OpenGL and how to setup development environment using MSYS2. Code examples in C for displaying polygons, keyboard input with GLUT, and a simple game demo.

OpenGL code examples in C – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/opengl

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Doom Modding – Knox Game Design, December 2023

Overview of modding Doom with customized levels and graphics.

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Memory Card Game – Knox Game Design, November 2023

Explanation of design and implementation of card memory matching game in MonoGame.

Demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/memory_game

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Object Oriented GameMaker – Knox Game Design, October 2023

Presentation on how to apply object oriented principles to GameMaker to expand the variety of enemies and items in games.  Includes discussion of parenting of objects in GameMaker and how to inherit attributes and functions in children objects.

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OpCodes – Knox Game Design, September 2023

Overview of OpCodes and how those relate to video game consoles.

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Character Encoding – Knox Game Design, August 2023

Overview of encoding characters and letters into their numerical and binary values. Explanation of how to use bitwise operators to change case of characters.

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