Three Thing Game
The Infamous Two Sirs as made by Christophe
Christophe and I, The Infamous Two Sirs, got our words; Tomb, Ninja, Travelodge. We set out to make a game for Windows Phone 7, using XNA, that featured 8-bit graphics, with a simple (but effective) zombie slash game mechanic. Our basic game story was; you're a ninja projecting travelers from zombies as they walk to a travelodge. Our prize: LEGO!
The game play comprises of zombies spawning off-screen and coming out of graves and coffins, and you, the ninja, slashing them to kill them before they touched the travelers. There are 3 travelers, which basically act as your lives, and as soon as they hit a zombie; BAM, you've lost one.
The game has 3 attack types; slash, shuriken, and fire. You tap coffins to open them, which gives you a gamble between a zombie or coins (to later be used to buy upgrades). Once the travelers enter the travelodge it's rooms will light up for every traveler that enters, then the game pans up to see the ninja. Judging video below shows the game in action.
Even though the competition was tough (you can see the other vids here), we came first place and won some Lego!
Myself and Christophe holding our prize
Even though it wasn't quite as glamarous a prize as the Windows Phones we won last year, I'm pretty pleased with it because lego is awesome!
Databases
I finally managed to get SQL Server playing after a tirade of problems:
- I couldn't find information anywhere online about restoring a database backup. I searched for several days, but eventually a book in the University Library had the info I needed.
- It turns out that SQL Server Express wouldn't allow me to have a database over 10GB in size (the datebase turned out to be 21GB, despite the backup file being a mere 2.62GB)
- SQL Developer, which I thankfully was able to get for free through Dreamspark, would have taken over 9 hours to download over my crappy home internet connection (thanks, Kingston Communications!)
- Managed to get SQL Server Developer downloaded and installed at Uni in 5 hours
- Managed to restore the backup (which is a stupidly designed process, by the way)
SQL Server is shit. But I now have it all playing, with a demo program that can connect and get information from it, and no space left on my harddrive thanks to the massive database size.
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