Author Archives: Ken Arthur

Psychic Construction Co: Progress 2

After spending most of the weekend tweaking farseer parameters, I now have a working game. This early version of PCC doesn’t have characters or very much interaction in vs. mode, but it does have a way of making levels, several brick types, and stable physics. A video is available here , or at [...]

Psychic Construction Company: Progress 1

For my project I’m working on the third of my proposed ideas, Psychic Construction Company.  PCC is a block stacking game using Farseer physics.  Step one of the project was getting Farseer working.  A video of my current progress is available Here
As a side note, I’m using FRAPS for video capture.  It’s probably not as [...]

Final Project Ideas - Ken

Idea One: Dark Avatar
4 players, top-down or isometric 2d game
The idea behind Dark Avatar is to create a 4 person game where 3 players oppose a 4th player. Gameplay works as follows:

Player one controls a single character, the Avatar of the Dark God, in a fashion similar to games like Diablo or Crimsonland: he [...]

Sword And Shield

Sword and Shield is a combination of the games Breakout and Qix.  In one player mode, you control both the Shield, which acts as a breakout paddle, and the Sword, which acts like the Qix character.  In Co-Op mode, each player controls a character.  Use the sword to ‘capture’ portions of the sceen, which prevents [...]