Hey Hey

For some days (well, weeks with some time days doing nothing) I
am working on a game which has no game yet. Some of you may
already saw screenshots on twitter/this forum/facebook, but this
will be my official development thread with newest information,
screenshots and the chance for you to comment and criticize my
project. I am open for ideas, so don't be shy

The project is inspired by a game from Ludum Dare but it
is not a copy.

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Already implemented:

• Isometric Engine
  • Rendering
  • Events
  • Collision("physics")
• Level Change
• Moveable Block

Being implemented at the moment:

• Editor
• Player
• Needle/Killer Tile
• Pressure Plates

Going to be implented:

• More tiles!
  • Auto-Move Tiles
  • Lazers!
• Menu
• AI

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Screenshots

A test level - graphics are wip.


The 3D Collisionlevel.


The editor - new version!

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Known problems:

• only 2 scale-sizes
• pointer problem -> unkown main-while stop

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Thank you for your attention and best regards,
ReiAyanami

I've seen shots of this on Screenshot Saturday (were, for some reason, my screenshots don't appear anymore)!

It looks nice, and I guess most of your work so far has been spent on the whole isometric viewpoint & collision-thing?


Care to share a bit more about the actual game? What game were you inspired by, and what do you plan on doing? So far, there's not much "game" to comment on.

Yes, you are right. I've spent the whole time in creating the graphics and the
whole 3D->2D rendering thing and the collision.

I hate to say it, but my actual player code doesnt even use 3D collision
checking...

Well, I cannot find the original game (seriously, i searched for 10 minuts now...)


I plan to make the story not a boring "save the princess" one, but a "what?
where am i? what should i do?"-one. There will be stupid around-running ai's,
that cannot be directly killed by the player, but the player can move boxes so
that these ai's decide to run into death fields. (I noted somethings that I
will be doing above)

Also, I plan to keep the style for the "normal" part in a black/white style, so
that I can use a colored part for special things.

Actually you can just run around and move a box, with which you can disable the
death field and nothing else. I am reworking the event code now to make
everything more stable.

Even though my sorting alghorytm might not be the best, the game runs with
(maxed)60fps/(unmaxed)500fps.


Yay, a comment (:

Seeing the 3D room, i htink you have the same problem as some of us.
A8 lightening don't allow to have "glued" 3D models with same light color at snapped vertex

I've seen complex 3D tiles glued perfectly on Unity3D and they had light, normal map and no visible seam at all !!

ratchet, that's the collision map. The real game looks like the first picture.

Yup, the real game is in 2D and made from 2D sprites

glad to see you found your solution. did the vec_for_screen help at all?

@ratchet, well, the other two answered it (:

@lostclimate Yep, the vec_to_screen function helps alot, its great that the
update came that fast (:


I am working right now to get the new event/move system done, its already
smoother, but has some bugs ):

Heyhey, here is a short video showing the player moving a box and disabling a
trap. As already said, I rewrote all the IsoEngine code, and I am nearly done

The video looks a bit laggy, but I dont really know why...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU3Ml0QioeI

Best regards,
ReiAyanami

I find the player a little hard to identify with ^^
though this might be wanted...

still great work will jumping onto those blocks be possible?
might make the game a little more dynamic