Reflex 2020
Reflex – Dev Diary 20 – Videos
November 15, 2020Work continues on the level designs for world 3 this week, but I also took some time to put together an ARSoftware video ident that will play at the start of the game, and I’ve also upgraded the title menu screen. So, first up the actual game content. Level 3.3 has been added to the… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 19
November 8, 2020Smaller update this week because of real work picking up – finally. There were a few things I wanted to try out this week. When the reactors are taken down on a level the lights will now go red indicating a kind of emergency power in the base and a nice visual cue that the… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 18
November 1, 2020Real life work is beginning to pick up so development time has dropped quite a bit in the last few weeks. However, I’m still making great progress. This week I have been refining the reactor sprites so that they fit in better with the rest of the assets. Originally they were orange tinted, now they… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 17
October 25, 2020World 2 is now complete. This week I played through the last 3 levels of the world and made sure they were doable. 2.25 is a right doozy, but it can be completed. Lots of other tweaks and fixes this week: The craft that launches the missile was also appearing on sub-levels which are supposed… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 16
October 18, 2020Short update this week as I was distracted by my new Oculus Quest 2. This week I continued testing levels and tweaking them when they proved impossible. Levels 2.17 to 2.22 have all been checked and are working properly. I added a new quick feature for windows users. Rather than having to left click a… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 15
October 11, 2020This week continued some of the polishing I started and I also finished off the weapon crate work. The weapon crate, when opened, displays the collected content on the left edge of the screen briefly – to avoid disrupting the game flow. One aspect that was in the original Reflex game was the deployment method… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 14
October 4, 2020Some very good progress was made this week. Adding in 2 new objective objects: the communications dish, and the space cannon. Both of these objects are for later stage objectives and I’ve given them some really nice animations. The dish will randomly reorient its self, and the cannon rotates and fires occasionally, adding to the… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 13
September 27, 2020Big things happening this week. After finishing adding in all the levels for world 2 I wanted to look at some ‘spit and polish’ for other aspects of the game. First up was the level select area. I didn’t like the way the levels were being displayed. They would fade in and then cross fade… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 12
September 20, 2020World 2 is now level complete. The 25 levels that make up the second world of the game are now in place and ready to be tested thoroughly. This week added in levels 2.19 to 2.25. Although the last two levels do require a couple of new sprite resources that I will be adding in… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 11
September 13, 2020Levels, levels, and more levels. This week I have continued to sketch up levels for the game and carefully work out the best order they should appear. Although this may change once I start to play them and find that they are actually harder than I thought. In the actual game this week I have… [Read More]