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Dr. Spacezoo is a time attack shoot-em-up jam packed full of grease and gibs, where you rescue exotic space animals from Space Zoos before a corrupted AI activates your ship's self destruct.
Trisector is an arcade style, side scrolling, bullet filled shoot-em-up (SHMUP) that has a dash of cave flying and a heaping ton of bullets.
Trisector Dev Archive
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Dynamic Lighting Shader with Cocos2d v2.0 and CCSpriteBatchNode
Posted on 2013/08/02For v1.0.3 of Trisector, I wanted to add dynamic lighting to the CCSpriteBatchNode layers to enhance the depth of field and to make the scene a bit more visually interesting. This article will discuss a dynamic lighting shader and a dynamic lighting and blur shader used in Trisector. -
![Trisector uses tile maps for the Base terrain layer and the Collision terrain layer. The tiles for each layer are managed using a CCSpriteBatchNode which includes the tiles being displayed in the current viewport. This article will discuss two methods of tile culling for a CCSpriteBatchNode, where the first is […]](http://smashriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/CCSpriteBatchNode-Culling-640x300.png "Improved Tile Culling for a CCSpriteBatchNode")
Improved Tile Culling for a CCSpriteBatchNode
Posted on 2013/06/23Trisector uses tile maps for the Base terrain layer and the Collision terrain layer. The tiles for each layer are managed using a CCSpriteBatchNode which includes the tiles being displayed in the current viewport. This article will discuss two methods of tile culling for a CCSpriteBatchNode, where the first is […] -
Making of Trisector: Engine
Posted on 2013/06/13Trisector uses a custom side scrolling parallax shoot-em-up engine. This article will discuss the making of Trisector’s engine and some of it’s inner workings (aka how I reinvented the side-scrolling shoot-em-up wheel). -
Making of Trisector: Maps
Posted on 2013/06/12Trisector uses tile maps for the levels, and each level’s tile map includes a Background, a Base layer, a Collision layer, and an Object layer. This article will talk about the design, creation and structure of the levels and the tile maps. -
Making of Trisector: Sound Effects
Posted on 2013/06/11The sound effects of Trisector were designed to be minimalistic and 8-bit sounding. This article will describe the process that went into creating each sound used in Trisector.