We’re a two man team and have decided on a 2D space exploration game, with a worms inspired pixel damage model system.
Lucien’s making excellent progress on our main dude:
Check out our first build of our Asteroid damage system below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj_FcFBSZcU&feature=youtu.be
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We’ve managed to make alot of progress on day 1, the core gameplay, main character, gravity and destruction are there. Tomorrow we need to add the main character animations that Lucien is working on now and some bad guys, interactive menu and huds, sounds and of course mission objectives.
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New weapons, new models, dynamic gravity effects:
Thai Food:
Terrible gif compression:
I was trying to work out what to do this weekend, and just remembered it was ludum dare, this is my 3.5th ludum dare and Im pretty stoked.
My tools will probably be:
Unity
Photoshop
3Ds max
and I’ll throw sound together at the nth hour as I have no idea about sound production
The train is coming together it now has modular cargo and engine sections, I now need to start modelling some weapon sections.
I’ve decided to go in more of a Oregon trail kind of direction now for the gameplay, although I’ll still keep an emphasis on combat.
Next steps are to make the train lines between planets and get the train to follow them, and then sort out the combat and enemies, I’m hoping to get these both done tonight, then I can spend tomorrow, writing the text systems for characters and trading and also working on sound.
Seeing as I’m in the UK I’ve only just started going on this LD, so far my plan is to make an 80s themed space train combat sim. I dont have much to show yet, but here’s a screen grab of the galaxy being made:
radical I know
I had to go film someone be soaked with a bucket of ice water so I lost a fair bit of time today, but I’m still mostly on target. I’ve got the train following paths and now with a 1st person mode for firing the lasers and a 3rd person mode for watching your train. The trains now also depart and arrive at stations on the planets. Tomorrow I need to program some enemy waves, and the system for choosing destinations and buying/selling supplies.
Some screen grabs:
I have to go and meet up with friends for some food and to watch Guardians of the galaxy now, but the games is mostly complete apart from the enemies of course, but its not like they’re that important in a space combat game right? Hopefully I can get them set up when I get back, I should still have a few hours left, otherwise I may have to make this a Jam entry.
Heres some more screen grabs:
