Reflex 2020
Reflex – Dev Diary 39
April 11, 2021World 4 is complete. This week I’ve been finishing off the UI enhancements and have finally fixed some bugs with the video player. For the last few weeks I’ve been struggling with the Video Player extension in GMS2 that I am using on the Windows build to display the logo intro animation and the tutorial… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 38
April 4, 2021This week I continued the revamp of the UI applying the code for the buttons and panels from last weeks dev sessions to the rest of the panels in the game; level objectives display, win and fail displays. The buttons needed a little tweak as the background tint that I used was way too weak… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 37
March 28, 2021Taking a break from the design of levels to go back through the game and give the UI a bit of a polish. To start off I wanted to improve how the level select are looked. Previously the UI had used tinted rectangles and a strong white outline for panels and buttons and although it… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 36
March 21, 2021This week I continue to add in the levels for World 4 and make a few changes for the potential Android build of the game. With the levels in World 4 getting larger and more complex the amount of time required to actually add them to the game takes longer and longer. Each level consists… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 35
March 14, 2021A very productive week this week. A large number of tweaks have been successfully completed and new levels added to the game. So, let’s get into it: The Tutorials video player object has been reworked. When I first created I was using one object for each video tutorial, this meant there were currently 18 tutorial… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 34
March 7, 2021This week I turned my attention to a few other things in the game instead of level construction. I had decided a while ago that each world would have a different looking reactor. All the reactors would be constructed from the same components so that they all looked similar, but at the same time different.… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 33
February 28, 2021Quite a lot of progress this week so let’s get started. The 25 levels for world 4 have all been designed and are ready to be added to the game. This has taken quite a while due to the complexity of some of the maps and the number of features packed into them at this… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 32
February 21, 2021World 4 now has 16 levels sketched up and ready to add to the game. Whilst creating the levels I suddenly hit on a feature that I’m really surprised I hadn’t thought of from day 1 – switches. I was drawing up a new level and thought that it would be great if I could… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 31
February 14, 2021Real life got a bit too busy over the last few weeks so development of Reflex had to be reduced a bit. I now have 11 levels sketched and ready to go for World 4. It’s getting harder and harder to create levels the further into the game you go because there are so many… [Read More]
Reflex – Dev Diary 30
January 31, 2021World 4 development has begun. So far I’ve drawn up the first 5 levels. Two of these will require new tutorials produced to introduce the player to the phased laser tower and the holder tiles. I’ve already added the first of the World 4 levels into the game to ensure that the background tiles are… [Read More]