Week Eight

Another week of glorious coding over at Design Works Gaming!

For those of you following closely to my weekly posts, you probably remember me mentioning last week that I was starting to work on a game called Slingo. Well, there’s some news surrounding that, the main one being that I’m not going to be working on it, or at least not until later. We also learned that whenever we do work on the game, it would actually be implemented as a bonus feature of a standard game, rather than being it’s own unique slots type.

So, instead of working on Slingo, this week I spent most of the time working on yet another slots game. This game followed the same essential steps as the previous games, of course being even more complex than before. This game did have some interesting features though: The first new feature was this “buffer” that would basically go across the screen in a randomly chosen pattern, turning every slot that it passes into a wild symbol. The explanation for this is much much simpler than the actual coding of it though. There were very few games that have already been made that have a similar feature, and the ones that did have it had some weird niche components that changed how it worked, so I was basically left to create it without much help from previous games. It was definitely the part of the game that took up the most time, with a lot of frustrating, tiny details that created problems all over the place.

The second feature is a lot easier, as it was basically just giving you a second chance at getting free bonus spins if you got 2 out of 3 bonus symbols. However, even this simple respin feature has a few annoying interactions with the rest of the game: Since this feature, as well as most of the other ones in this game, changes what symbols on the reels, it is important to make sure to sequence these interactions in the code in the correct order so they don’t mess each other up. I’m actually working on figuring out exactly where to put everything, so that’s where I am now.

Sadly, still no more updates on the Facebook games; maybe we have done all there is to do on Facebook. Though I complained numerous times about this in the past, I’m still somewhat missing mindlessly spinning the slots, just not enough to do it on my own without being required to. On the bright side, now they have their own Facebook page that you can all actually check out right now: Diamond Sky Casino Community