SolarLune Games Development Thread

[SolarLune]

Hey, guys. I wanted to post about my current project and the status of it, but I didn't want to clog the forum up with another game project thread. So, here's my dedicated thread - just one for me and my projects.

----CURRENT PROJECTS----

Soldier Of

Spoiler!

Soldier Of will be a top-down action-adventure exploration shooter that takes place in a city over-run by a foreign army of robots. Players will take control of a citizen (currently named Simon) as he searches the city for his wife and subsequently escapes.



It will feature bright, Game Boy Color-styled visuals and hopefully tight controls. I'm making it in the Blender Game Engine, and so will hopefully be available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (I'm not sure; I've never ported a game before. ).



--DEVLOG VIDEO PLAYLIST--

There's devlog videos, videos that I made that show how far along I am with the project, that can be found on the playlist above, and here is my channel for anyone who's interested. Subscribing to my channel or following me on my homepage may help since I may not post the same thing everywhere.

So, tell me what you think - suggestions are welcome.

P.S. I'm sorry about not finishing my other projects, GridSpace and Hegira, but I truly feel like they got out of hand for me and that I can definitely finish this project to hopefully put out a game that people really want to play. I haven't stopped development on those games - I've just suspended them. I really plan on finishing this one, and looking at the videos will show you how much more I've finished in terms of functional gameplay and actual game ideas implemented. If you want to post about those games, though, I would still appreciate your feedback.

12/25/11 UPDATE: New development log video added to the playlist.

1/8/12 UPDATE: Another development log video added to the playlist.

1/19/12 UPDATE: Another development log video added to the playlist.

5/6/12 UPDATE: I've uploaded another development log video to the playlist, but I've also uploaded a demo that you can play. You can find it here.

Sparky

Spoiler!

Sparky's a game about speed, momentum, radioactive dogs, and aliens... So... Yeah.

Sparky will be a 2D action game in the vein of... I'm not even sure. I know that it'll be about exploring and traversing the alien bases in the game, and destroying aliens in an efficient, quick manner, all while keeping up momentum (hopefully).

Sparky is being made with the Blender Game Engine and should be cross-platform. I'm not sure at what price it will sell at. Note that I'm not stopping development on Soldier Of - an upcoming Blender Game competition kind of pushed me to make this game. I also wanted to try something simple and fun.

SCREENSHOTS





The water-running is currently implemented - run fast enough, and you'll run on the water's surface. Slow down or jump onto the water, and you'll sink right through, which makes it a bit more difficult to traverse water. Hopefully this will open the way for quick 'momentum puzzles' of sorts, where you have to figure out just the right set of actions to get you from point A to point B.

DEVLOG VIDEOS PLAYLIST

[Icthiki]

Very nice.

[Abcdude]

Very cool, I had no idea games could be made with blender.

Now you can be included with the other two game maker's on here, Abcdude Games/DAi-K (Me) and LG productions (SilverStar)...

[Exile]

Oh this looks pretty good I really like the visuals it really takes me back. It seems there are a few developers here, myself included though my projects are quite private.

[SolarLune]

Wow, I forgot about this thread, heh. Thanks, you guys.
I'm also surprised - I didn't know there were other game developers here. That's cool.
What do you guys use for tools?

[Exile]

Originally Posted by SolarLune

Wow, I forgot about this thread, heh. Thanks, you guys.
I'm also surprised - I didn't know there were other game developers here. That's cool.
What do you guys use for tools?

Zbrush, Sculptris, Maya, Some Blender, and Unity sometimes I use Unreal as well and I use Photoshop for textures.

[~Edd~]

Don't forget Nintendo 3DS inc.

[SolarLune]

Ah. You've got some really professional tools, Exile. I'd like to see what you make with them.
@Nintendo 3DS - Ah, so you're making SM3DL: X, huh? I'll have to see about that, too.

[Exile]

Originally Posted by SolarLune

Ah. You've got some really professional tools, Exile. I'd like to see what you make with them.
@Nintendo 3DS - Ah, so you're making SM3DL: X, huh? I'll have to see about that, too.

Yeah I do, Well when I have some things that are safe (copyright wise) to show from my current project I'll post them here.

[SolarLune]

Cool, Exile. I'd like to see what you make.

In other news, I got a game runtime working.



It took only a few minutes. Not bad. There's a console (a black and white application) that goes with the game running, but I think I can remove it. Currently, in order to remove the console or make the textures as sharp as they are, you would have to execute the game with command-line arguments, which would mean a batch script. Since I don't want to distribute and use batch scripts, I made a game script that checks to see if the game was run with correct settings, and if not, it runs the game again with correct settings and stops the current one. When the game starts again, the settings are correct, and the game proceeds.