{"id":38,"date":"2018-05-04T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2024-10-11T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:41:13","slug":"zenith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/zenith\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Freestyle Zenith project is the sum of all our time at freestyle. We take what we have learned\u00a0and put it into a project created by us and also try to learn something new. We write a research\u00a0paper on our subject we have chosen and also create a consumer product that could possibly be sold to customers of our project.<\/p>\n<p>For my Zenith project, I chose to make a video game. Having some basic knowledge of code I set out to expand on that knowledge and create a video game. The problem I now faced was what type of game I wanted to make and after a short brainstorm,\u00a0I wanted to make a game like the old real-time strategy(RTS) games of the 90s. Some games I drew inspiration\u00a0from were Command and Conquer and Starcraft.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/b\/be\/Cncts-win-cover.jpg\/220px-Cncts-win-cover.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"427\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/vignette.wikia.nocookie.net\/cnc\/images\/c\/c0\/Tiberian_Sun_Beta_Picture_15.jpg\/revision\/latest?cb=20120612135732\" width=\"362\" height=\"263\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMzIxMDkxNTAwM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTA4MzE0MTE@._V1_.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"522\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/U8_1PpD5aaA\/maxresdefault.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I knew that I wanted to use the program Gamemaker Studio, I knew the program could be used to make an RTS. Gamemaker is primarily a pixel art game engine so I knew it would be perfect for the old style of RTS games. I started by working on an online free pixel\u00a0editor called Piskel, to create some basic concepts for the ships I was going to use in the game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-8.41.07-AM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-8.41.07-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-8.41.07-AM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-8.41.07-AM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-8.41.07-AM.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-8.43.09-AM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-8.43.09-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-8.43.09-AM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-8.43.09-AM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-8.43.09-AM.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I then expanded and refined the models to be bigger and have more detail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-11.17.58-AM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-11.17.58-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-11.17.58-AM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-11.17.58-AM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-11.17.58-AM.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-11.23.02-AM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-11.23.02-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-11.23.02-AM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-11.23.02-AM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screenshot-2018-04-27-at-11.23.02-AM.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actually coding the game came next. I used a series\u00a0of online videos and the game maker website tutorials to learn how to use the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freestyle Zenith project is the sum of all our time at freestyle. We take what we have learned\u00a0and put it into a project created by us and also try to learn something new. We write a research\u00a0paper on our subject we have chosen and also create a consumer product that could possibly be sold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/zenith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zenith&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MorganF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}