Hey, I have just submitted the warmup game i made last night, i was going to do it after finish the game in almost 2h but i ran out of internet provider and now here you are!
http://www.xixgames.com/demos/magewalk/
Tags: mage walk, picking game, staves game, water walk, xixgames
Finally, I decided to do 2 minigames in stead of 3.
It is a tiny world story, full of people, but there is one driver and he (or she) is responsible for all of us to be taken to our place, our world!
http://instagr.am/p/JuA3tWyAG5/
Tags: tiny world, travel
https://twitter.com/#!/juaxix/status/193774592815403008/photo/1
I created the char, the tiny world, the icon and the house with Photoshop, the rest is procedural, ships of the aliens, stars, asteroids, etc.
Tags: designing time, graphics, photoshop, screenshot, tools, tv
It was made in the first hours of the contest
Tags: first prototype, game prototype, tiny-world-travel, video, video tiny world
The second game prototype, in this moment i was thinking in several world with multitouch support, but i consider it is more fun to have more minigames, transitions and more action, so i set #houses later, but first take a look at the video:
http://yfrog.com/3tcm0z
At this point all the graphics are done, some procedural graphics were done after and then i added the second minigame.
Tags: arcade game, game logic, game prototype, space game, think game, tiny world, tiny-world-travel, touch game
Screenshot from iPad directly with the tool to generate imagemaps 😀
Tags: ld23, procedural, procedural graphics, procedural images, tiny world
Look out, here you have the third and final prototype of the game,
http://yfrog.com/5r6vtz
you can see in the video, it contains procedural sounds and the selected char can “collect” other characters in the same “road” line that ends up in the house of the planet.
Here, i start drawing the current level of the house, so you can know it 
In the next video I’ll show you the full version of the game
Tags: game prototype, juaxix, prototype, space game, tiny, tiny world, tiny-world-travel, touch game, world, xixgames
Let’s do this again, my first game for Ludum after the traffic accident i was victim of ,during the LD23!
Just got the textures, spheres and the main char (once evolved :))
OK,it’s done.
Gimbal lock is a big challenge for me right now.
I pretended to do the Mario Galaxy walk but im not so good with math and matrices…
Well ,the final result is funny
Hope you enjoy as me doing it
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?uid=10960
I made my game for Ludum Dare #24 in less than a day. It caught me by surprise, I read the news that the contest had begun the second day and sat at my computer and started drawing textures for models, Run the Game Engine Shiva3D and then I composed a simple scenario and I remember that I was very clear about what I wanted to do, a kind of evolution of planets, something dark with a touch of Mario Galaxy
I built up the scene, get some free sounds modified and a simple music (atmosphere) and wrote the AI’s, behaviours and HUD scripts in the speed of light, but something bothered me and totally stucked me , a common math problem with free rotations in 3d axis.
The final hour arrived and I had to post the game with 2 bugs: camera and control, users started to test the game and all they said was good things but complied about the bugs, so I kept working on the game until I got a version with less bugs, without the gimbal lock in the control and a better camera, still to be improved…
I was very surprised with so many comments, when I started to rate the games, I found there was lot of fun games, mine is more like a weird experience said some guy 😀 ,I love the touch of humor the users distillate here in the Ludum Dare, I was so used to getting bad reviews of my games in other networks, that this experience of have opinions of people with such passion and professionalism really left me overwhelmed and makes me think all this has a really good purpose to work and deploy a good game for the people, and I love to create new experiences, emotions and travels to other world, those kind of stuff, thank you !
After reading and talking with other users I found that my game need a whole new point of view, so, one of them said me that it needed another player, I liked the idea and I turned the game into a multiplayer conquer for evolve experience in Space, dark matter is waiting!
Tags: darkness, evolution, evolve, game, internet, multiplayer, multiplayer game, netsphere, xixgames
I thought that players would need other players ip’s to play matches ,and some of them would prefer to hide that so I created in one day a Google App Engine WebApp with a set of servlets to store the ips of the users whose create servers from the game so other players can connect directly by fetching the list via XML and populate a hud list to easily select one of them.
When the server is created, only in Windows,OSX,Linux native versions (I need to create sockets and I cant do it in the browser right now ), the game send a XML petition to the GAE servlet of game matches server application and store the name of the server (given by the player) with the IP of the petition, so, then, other users check the list of available servers and select one of them (there is no limit at all) then connect and in about 2-5 minutes the server is deleted from the list with a cron task that check the creation date. If the server disconnect the game send a cancel server and the match is erased from the list also.
Hope this help to other people.
Next: I’m thinking in add an AI for players who want to play solo… I have adquired this book
Play the game with GAE matches hosting here
Tags: gae, game networks, google app engine, network, videogame server
Hey, I made other games later and published to the markets, now I will expand the business lines and use more markets.
The game is called Egypt: Hack & Slash, it’s in dungeons and crypts inside Egpyt, mummies, demons, orcs, skeletons,…slay them all!
Tools:
Tags: 1, challenge, dungeons and crypts, egypt, game, hack & slash, money, october
Hey guys, here is the logo
and a screenshot from the game
This is the wizard character.
Running in an iPhone 4S with iOS5.1.1 at 60FPS, less than 10k polys for each part of the whole scene, it also contains 4 particle systems for the torchs, a HUD control to move the char and 2700 frames of animations for the model.
The initial scene has a camera trajectory that follows a helper like a trail and end up then with the logo and menu buttons to start the game.
All I can say is that I’m working too hard to make this game really good.
I have made this video:
to show the current progress of the game in about 2 weeks.
Player has animations, touch control pad,physics,low poly geometry, etc
The first level consists in 2 rooms and a mage tower, all the game is related to magic and mages!, i am a bit worried about fps, with 5-7k polys for each part of the full scene (rooms and tower), 4 particle systems of 16 elements each one, collisions, object occlussion, physics, AI, animations (no lights , no shadows), the game is running at 40-50fps…
I am wondering if I would need to reduce the meshes again! Or remove particles, occlussion ,etc, so I can add bloom fx, lights and more action to improve gameplay and game itself: graphics, sounds, music, attack,fx,etc
Tags: action, adventure, egypt, game, hack & slash, iOS, iPad, iphone, mage, mages, magic, magic game, mobile games
Here is the video from these days progress:
Now I could export the game to iOS 6.0. It works with iPad3 and iPhone5!
Bad news are that the game in iPod/iPhone 3G will not be available and in iPhone 3GS too slow…
I’m trying to make this better. Here is the discussion in our engine forum:
http://www.stonetrip.com/developer/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=26748
Tags: 3D, action, adventure, egypt, hack & slash, iOS, progress, shiva
I’m reading a book to know more about RPG classes, the name is “Programming Role playing Games With DirectX” from André LaMothe – CEO Xtreme Games. Although I’m writing the game in Shiva with Lua and exporting with C,C++,OBJC,and so on, I love the way it handles the kernel of a RPG game, my game is special kind of hack & slash, with magic spells, mages, etc. so this book is helping me to focus on the balance and the classes definitions, AI and so on.
Here the pic:
I’m learning a lot of 3D and positioning, timing, frame syncing, fx creation, 3d art, …still a newbie crazy and hunger for more!
Tags: 3D, books, creation progress, desk, game creation, hack & slash, RPG
New monster and zone almost done!
Check out the video:
I’ve been working with physics and lighting.
I had some problems to optimize the entire theme of light and shadow with the mobile hardware, because some older devices do not support anything but OpenGL1.1 and the ones supporting OpenGL2 only have two lights (hardware acceleration) dynamics, and are directional.
I also had a hard time trying to coordinate all the events of the generation systems and balance enemy load, these are synchronized via environment variables with the AI, once you load the level you meet certain standards for each part phase, it run macros that direct action through the gaming experience.
I made several models in 3DStudio and Maya, textures with Photoshop and it has been more difficult than I thought, but also a lot of fun
I’m making a summary of what I’ve done since the last update:
– Added a compass (triangle in front of the avatar) to know where to go next
– Creation of optimized materials compatible with light and shadow
– Creating a new enemy: mini skeleton, with its animations, etc..
– Creation of a series of doors with different animations, particle systems and so on, that are synchronized to provide a consistent flow to the game
– Including transients and environmental sound effects are played according to a given priority
– resource optimization: its a need to use the least number of objects in memory and AI’s possible, it’s an art to know how to do this and mantain the FPS high, almost between 40-60+
In six days I have to submit the game to the markets.
And it is working in Blackberry PlayBook, iPhone4+, iPad (1,2,3), Pc (win,linux,mac), etc
Tags: action, adventure, challenge, dynamics, egypt, environment, FPS, hack & slash, october, RPG, wizard game, wizards games
Egypt Wizard is now available in the following apps markets:
* Apple AppStore
* BlackBerry AppWorld
* Google Play [Android Market]
here you can find a resume of the development process.
Promo video:
Tags: action game, android, appstore, blackberry, egypt, game, hack & slash, iOS, iPad, iphone, iPod, market, RPG, rpg game, store, wizard
It’s the first time I read the topic of the LD so soon and before I read it I knew what I wanted to do, in fact, some of you said to me that in my previous game, from the #LD24, the protagonist was a demon god o_O, I thought it is a bit ironic and funny at the same time I must say, that I know what I’ll do now, but hey, here it’s almost 4 am and I have to go to sleep to be healthy tomorrow, and I catch a cold! atcwahhh
Well, so far, stay well!