TogsTech

Part 13.5 – An Evening of Ideas and Inventions

Welcome back to anther Part.5 series where I run you through the video game I have been making. This post is going to be relatively short as I have to go and present shortly but I wanted to show you a play through of my video game! Its finally come together (after hours upon hours of maintenance, troubleshooting problems and trawling the internet to find which of the 5 billion solutions on google will ACTUALLY work …) But before I discuss it all, treat yourself to a short video of me playing through the game created so far:

Now as I made this game I cam across a couple of small complications. The main one I’d like to talk about however is the audio files and trying to get them to play. One of the greatest frustrations about using software such as this is that it’s constantly updating, quickly outdating the things that have been written even a year ago. This drove me a little bit mad as I had to go through heaps and heaps of sites and scour through videos to try find a piece of code that ACTUALLY worked, as mine kept coming up with heaps of issues and errors, never playing the audio. I have a screenshot the the final code I ended up using below just in case any body else ends up having the same issue that I had failing to get sound to play:

I know this looks simple, but I went through about 10 different variations on this and had 0 success

On a more positive note however, the pure euphoria and joy you have when after hours IT WORKS, is honestly one of the GREATEST feelings ever. I went through so many ups and downs over the last week or so trying to get this to work but the happiness when it comes together is totally worth it.

Well that is all for me for now – unfortunately I have to go and present this game but you’ll be hearing from me shortly! See you next time!