September 17th, 2009
So, a week since my previous Next Level post and the project has come to completion.
YinYangYou, our game, is a top-down two-player race to collect energy and skew the balance of the playing field. By throwing orbs into their opponents’ “holes”, each player can increase the amount of ground they control on the opposite side of the board, eventually claiming an entire side and winning the game. A range of exotic energy pickups, such as time control and hole switiching, add variety and tactical elements to the gameplay.
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Subject: Programming Tags: Next Level, Other Abertay Students, Team Be, Whitespace, XNA, YinYangYou
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September 7th, 2009
This week I’m taking part in Next Level Dundee. Next Level is a digital media collaboration project, which basically means I’m meeting some new people and developing a game with them in a week. Scary idea.

We pitched our games to the other participants on Friday, having only just managed to meet up the morning beforehand. Luckily we’d managed to agree on a game design through online meetings on Skype, but there were elements that we didn’t fully decide upon until we met face to face.
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Subject: Programming Tags: C++, Next Level, Other Abertay Students, Pitch, Whitespace, XNA
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