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Backgrounds
Added a transparent tile in the cells not filled with a title, to show the player which cells the cursor can occupy. Without these transparent tiles as a guide, it is confusing to tell where the...
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Face Lift
Updating Graphics Made two arrow sprites for the level select screen to replace the “V” and “^” character strings that I had before. A new arrow delay value was added to the LevelSelectScreen class,...
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Simple Change Casues Larger Problem
Week 6 update video. Pause Problem Added a pause screen to the game, which I thought was going to be a simple change. I created a new class that extended the Screen class, implemented the draw and...
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More Visual Effects
Crown Jewel The one effect that I’ve neglected which I envisioned from the beginning was the actual filling animation of an individual wire in a cell. I should be able to do this now, since I now know...
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Home Stretch
Small Glitch Fixed an issue that actually only occurs on one frame of the fill animation. This happens when a wire goes to the “filled” state, but the neighbor wires have not yet begun filling. Since...
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Play it Again Sam
Wrapping Up Level Design Created 20 new levels, which use the 7 and 8 resistors. Now I have a total of 80 levels. If each level takes 30 seconds to play, then it would make the total time to play...
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Week 7 Video Update
Short Update video Level Editing Done Finished the last ten stages of the game, which use the 10 battery with a maximum resistor of 9. Went back and fixed the level design issues that I found during...
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Comes Full Circle
Back Where We Started After almost two months of development, I’m back to doing what I started on the first days of development which is updating the sprite graphics. Updated all of the wire graphics,...
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Peer Review Preparation
Evil Checklist I started reading about what needs to be done to publish a game, and I noticed a thread on the App Hub site referencing the Evil Checklist. I’m not sure if my game needs to pass...
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Testing on Older Hardware
Multiple Controller Testing So sure enough, the first time I tried running the game with two controllers plugged in (first one signed out, second one signed in as my developer account) I get the Code 4...
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Stick a Fork in It
Title Safe Noticed that the title safe area on the PC is the entire window, so things looked slightly off when it is running in a window. Went back and removed the device specific Title Safe Area...
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Submitted for Playtest
I haven’t done any development for Resistor since I submitted it to the Dream Build Play competition on May 30th. Therefore, I went ahead and submitted for Playtest on the AppHub website. I guess...
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Feedback
The game got a lot of good feeback on the AppHub playtest forum. I’ve resolved most of the issues that other developers found. Device Selection Issue There was one report that the game wouldn’t play...
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Playtesting at KGD Meeting
Attended the Knoxville Game Design meeting at The Technology Cooperative and received a lot of good feedback from fellow developers. The guys at Chaosoft were particularly helpful with their...
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Anomalies
Category Icons Another problem that I noticed during the playtest session was that there was not a clear correlation to the player between what they were doing in the level and the rank grades after...
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Doing My Part
I really haven’t done any development for Resistor in over a month, so I decided to go ahead and put it into the Peer Review process on the Microsoft Creator’s Club site. I see it as my way of doing...
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Resistor – On Sale Now for XBLIG
Buy Resistor from Xbox.com Resistor is now on sale in the XBox Live Indie Game Marketplace. Try the trail version for free, and if you like it all 90 levels can be unlocked for $1 (80 Microsoft...
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What is Resistor for XBLIG?
The objective of Resistor is to build connections to carry electrical flow to activate LEDs (light emitting diodes). To avoid damaging these components, the flow level must be reduced using resistors....
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New Resistor Review
Be sure to check out the new Resistor review by XBLA & XBLIG Ratings Top 50 Reviewer joebal. Learning while playing can be fun! 9/10 Also, Resistor has been submitted to the IndieCade International...
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