The Pen Is Mightier
A 2D Hack and Slash on the PC. The Pen is Mightier takes place in a world where all the color has been taken away and great machines use the land for their own ends. The player takes control of one of the last artist who is seeking to bring colour back to the land. The player must battle and traverse through the colorless landscape filled with killer robots to bring back the color and defeat the source of this lands blight.
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Creating the Color Shader
The Pen is Mightier is a wold all based around colour, this covers how I made the Shader that makes that system all work, and how it effected the gameplay,
like hiding pickups behind them, or showing when an area was completed.
Read more: Creating the Colour
The Pen is Mightier is a wold all based around colour, this covers how I made the Shader that makes that system all work, and how it effected the gameplay,
like hiding pickups behind them, or showing when an area was completed.
Read more: Creating the Colour
Programming the Game
As the sole programmer on the project I had to wear many hats, each with their own challenges and rewards, the most of that was creating the combat system in TPIM, Below is a Code snip it that shows how the game sorted through hostiles and prioritized them by range to the player for their attacks.
As the sole programmer on the project I had to wear many hats, each with their own challenges and rewards, the most of that was creating the combat system in TPIM, Below is a Code snip it that shows how the game sorted through hostiles and prioritized them by range to the player for their attacks.
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