[Disc] Current Games 4

Hey all,

That's right, its that time again - when the love and pimping is brought together in one squishy place. Let your screenies spill forth and let everyone know what you are working on at this very minute!

It would be nice to get a little geeky as well.. tell how many files, classes, lines of code, hours of sweat have gone into the game so far and anything else your willing to share (but especially screen shots!)

For the newbies and the old timers here are the previous 'current games' threads..

http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=642321 (July 2005)
http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=526923 (May 2003)
http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=449066 (Feb 2003)

I am trying to finish game for jayisgames competition. The theme is somehow painfully hard, I tried to come up with something original for nearly 3 weeks and I have big doubts about the one I finally made. Its probably either too hard, too easy or will not even qualify.

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Originally Posted by tonypa

I am trying to finish game for jayisgames competition. The theme is somehow painfully hard, I tried to come up with something original for nearly 3 weeks and I have big doubts about the one I finally made. Its probably either too hard, too easy or will not even qualify.

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Don't worry, I bet all game developers who're busy now creating their games for a competition have same thoughts.
BTW. Me too :)

Did you read about new deadline for submissions (it was changed to 28 of February now)?

been and am busy with several university projects wich are close to be finished. Some things I really improved in lately are rigging, texture- wrapping/ painting and animations. Here are 2 renderings of a short movie I am working on (very low poly, and almost everythign rigged) :
http://mitglied.lycos.de/mmvr2/flash...jeep_show1.jpg


and alot of that knowledge inspired me for this project:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/mmvr2/flash...sh_concept.jpg
it´s a jagged alliance 2 clone (for the beginning) with lots of improvements and on the other hand limitations so that it will be a fun round based strategy game.

some demos of papervision got my attention into the ASE export format so I have been taking a look into that as well. So what I want to do in my upcomming vacation besides supporting luxregina with concepts again (sorry dude but no time so far) is this project.
I plan on rendering the building and static objects as sprites and import active objects and the player models as 3d models with a custom motion engine (will be a mix of point-bone systems and IK- rig) to animate them in realtime. A motion mixer (relative animation system) would be nice as well to blend mutliple motion into one motion- but I´ll see that once I start with all that motion stuff.

About the 3d-stuff: so far I think that I already grasped the ASE file format and how it works with max. What I want in the end is a workflow where I can model and UVW-unwrap models in max - paint the textures in PS and export them into my flash engine.

Technology: I try on finally moving forward to AS3 because esspecially those 3d- polygonal stuff seems to better fit into that language- besides it gets time for me upgrading AS knowledge as many projects of me have some ancient AS- syntax. Already have some nice books and tutorials for that.

bleh to much to post I guess,- well on the sketch you can see some minigames (actions) that are needed to disarm for example a mine- or pick a lock. Some very rough PS space design (not in relation of what it might look final)
http://mitglied.lycos.de/mmvr2/flash..._interface.jpg

all other projects I am working on right now are not directly flash related, except my website for my psychology lessons

I’m currently working on 3 projects (eek).

1) Bullet theory - I’ve posted a preview of this if you want to see some more screenies. This is my personal project so its only progressing slowly, but its starting to take shape. I'm just making the player death animation as we speak.

http://board.flashkit.com/board/

2) Platform RPG - Yea, I’ve never made a platformer or an RPG before, but now I’m making both in one game :p. It's pretty far into development already. I’ve made an editor which has most of the RPG features already in it. All that remains to do really is the platformer style enemies and putting it all together using the editor. Its quite a big project, but not massive. The editor has cut a lot of the hassle out that making an RPG causes.

3) Arcade/'shooter'/thingy - can't really describe this one to you, I suppose its like ikaruga without the scrolling and without the ability to shoot :). I only have the engine made for this one. Not properly working on it yet.

So that’s what I’m doing... expect to see releases starting within the next 2-3 weeks hopefully.

Ali

Invasion 5 (mainly a test of the Flash Player's power)
Will soon be starting work on a multiplayer game for my twin's school (first time I'll be getting paid at least minimum wage for Flash work, and deadline is September, so I have oodles of time to work on it :))
Also currently working on an all-purpose platformer engine to open-source (just draw the level, draw the collision area of the character, and make the various animations). It's BitmapData-based, and will therefore have destructible (perhaps even constructible) terrain.

I'm working on my second level for the enforcer, trying to get more 3d with it.

http://www.creativededication.com/Hosting/exam1.jpg
http://www.creativededication.com/Hosting/exam2.jpg

-May aswell get this one out since this thread came up.

My main project which is 60% complete now and ready for feedback.

THE DAMNED

http://jaypan.com/kris/pics/pic1.JPG

http://jaypan.com/kris/pics/pic2.JPG

Couple of B projects which I only work on when I'm burned out.
a) Samurai Warrior remake-

-YouTube hosted 3ds Usagi model+Cloth modifier here (low quality)

b) Isometric Engine -
Here

http://jaypan.com/kris/pics/pic3.JPG
Ready for when me and Renderhjs get started on Last Ninja 2 (hint hint..lol)

c) Bowman style demo-

Here

Just made this the other night. Figuring out how to rotate the arrow correctly at the moment (rotation=rotation-vel/gravity..??Anybody?)


The porfolio is getting bigger and bigger. But when will I start making money from it all?....hmmm

Wow guys, a lot of promising projects, I'm guessing only how much of them will be finished?
;)

I honestly think ,ine will get finished, but I am having major problems with file sizes, My original plan was to have the lights shootable, but this increased my file size by 9 mb's, thats unacceptable to me so I ditched the idea. Now I'm running into problems with character rigging/animation up close.

In order to achieve realistic lighting effects I need to have each enemy rendered seperately, again raising file sizes, I dont see this level being finished under 20 mb's, which is way unacceptable. So in conclusion I am studying the original lethal enforcer on youtube and concidering just following there way of game play, maybie even just recreating the same game using modern graphics.

I really get derpressed when I work on something for a week and then look at the file and it says 20mb, I just cant release something like that.

Oh you guys make me smile :) Seems like fkg's talent has had quite a boost recently ^^

This is my first post in one of these threads and as my title suggests, I consider myself pretty flash incompetent... ANYWAYS, this is a game I had started a while ago and am now picking back up, I think posting here might also get me motivated to keep at it. It's my first game and I chose a space invader type game, not sure if thats the proper genre title.

Graphics:
Leaving to the end, hopefully will find someone impressed enough with my project that they will be willing to make the graphics for it. Hoping for some awesome pixel art.

Current Features
6 Different weapons to choose from, ranging from different levels of strength and fire speed as well as some more unique weapons such as heat seeking missiles and a grenade-esque weapon.
3 Other purchasable items: scanner(shows enemy health, user activated shield, and matrix-style slow mo pill)
3 Different enemy movement types
Inventory/Stage clear screen where you can purchase new items, and buy repairs for your ship

What's Next:
Looking into a save game or code that can be generated/entered to load your game
Pre-mission dialogue screen
Actually coding some levels!

Screenshot:
kind of crappy looking so don't hate!

http://www.geocities.com/ihrimtest/screenshot1.gif

well I guess that's it for me. Hopefully my first game will get completed someday, and might be a little bit of fun. Any feedback of any sort would be wonderful!

Two Kingdoms Heroes, still on heavy production :

http://www.luxgames.net/FK/screen1.jpg

http://www.luxgames.net/FK/screen2.jpg

Joey (Ifritt) gave me some stats for the 'geeky' part :)

- 26 classes (way more to come)
- 32 external .as files
- so far, 417 different tiles ( there again, way more to come ...)
- 4 people working on 2KH ( Coder, GFX designer, sound engineer and musician )
- 1 ring to ...wait...is that TOO geeky ? :)

I expect these numbers to grow insane, as we get close to completion ! :)

All these games look really good, I forgot that these WIP threads are really annoying because I just end up wanting to play these games that aren't going to come out for a while. I'm still waiting for really old WIP's I've seen. For example where the hell is bubble islands! I wanna play it! And I think it was Fall_X who was making a really awesome looking RPG. More recently Fil Razorback's tactics game looks unbelievable, hopefully we can hear from them, maybe then I can get some more english info from Fil.

@luxregina
wow that looks really good! I kinda want to play it!

ugh, I feel so crappy in comparison to all of you guys...

Lol, I know how you feel Chase. These guys are good, but it takes time. Just keep at it and keep reading these guys posts and you'll learn a great amount of stuff :P

Anyways, my WIP

Snake 2 - http://crownsnake.com/snake2.php
Still to come:
multiple levels, menu, audio, high scores and a few other things

Wow, alot of great games are in development. Well I'm currently working on "Beamos". My little guiding laser type game. I don't have any screenshots due to a redo of the graphics and some of the engine. It's been in development for a few months, mainly due to alot of work over at work and trying to figure out how to do stuff. I only have one class and as file. Still try'n to figure out how classes work. I'd say there is around 225 lines of code.

YA I agree with you there Chase, I feel weird putting my game in here.

@walsher

I've decided we shouldn't feel weird or bad, as corny as it sounds, we should be proud, as long as we are performing on or above a level of quality consistent with our set of skills and knowledge. I hope more people who are a little less fluent in flash are willing to post their works in progress!

Very good point, thanks for the encouraging words. :)

Well, I'm still working on the same old project I started in November. Finishing a game is harder than I thought.

Technical stuff; I'm not into the loading AS files yet (have to look into it, sounds like a good idea), but a quick estimate gave 600 lines of code. I have 10 completed levels, but will add more to even out the learning curve.

Graphics: don't exist. Lux has promised to make some tiles for it, and by the looks of 2KH, they will be incredible, even if they are only a tenth of what he has done for that game!

Gameplay: Its a secret for now, but if you remember the thread I started asking for artists, then you know what its about.

I'm working on a Valentine's themed game that will hopefully be ready, well, before Valentine's Day. Stay tuned.

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Originally Posted by ChaseNYC

More recently Fil Razorback's tactics game looks unbelievable, hopefully we can hear from them, maybe then I can get some more english info from Fil.

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I emailed the artist today so we can show recent screenshots and a decent sum-up in this thread ^^


I also want to play Bubble Islands...I've been waiting for it since the day I arrived at FK ^^

Render,

can't believe no one has commented on that 3dsm work with the jeep - i take it that is seperate from flash?


Lux,

As always those graphics are lush. Im impressed that you are taking on an MMORPG with only four people in the team... When are you envisaging completion? and also will it be free to play?

chaseNYC,

Tell me all those dots in the background are particles! I know they won't be - but wouldn't it be nice? I think with those space games you have just got to use every trick in the book to get as much 'going on' on screen as you can at one time :-)


Personally, i have been working on a project for just over two weeks.. although they are still programming graphics i will post a screeny anyway. Im going to be as geeky as lux and post up the gorey details so far:

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/3997/screen14wp.png

1200 lines of code
300 cups of tea
19 files
14 classes
2 weeks (evenings)
1 me

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Im impressed that you are taking on an MMORPG with only four people in the team... When are you envisaging completion? and also will it be free to play?

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Nah, 2KH is planned as a single player format, first... then, upon completion, we'll try to approach several socket server companies, to see if they want to "sponsor" the game, and help us plug a very simple Player vs Player + chat module (the idea is to provide a fun SP experience to build a character up, then, be able to pit it against other people) - depending on the cost of hosting, and the deal we can make, we will see how it goes from there ... and I have no ETA on completion, it depends on many parameters - it's going slowly, but nicely :)

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I also want to play Bubble Islands...I've been waiting for it since the day I arrived at FK ^^

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^_^ workin on it, working on it... less than before, but... working on it anyway. There'll be some nice stuffs with it (stuffs that weren't even available for the Independant Games Festival although it was, and still is, finalist in the "best web game"'s category)...

Just a tip: the game will need to be online in order for people to vote publically in around 2 weeks (BUT, it might be the "old" version of september 2006, the extended one is still in the works, heh heh...)

Here's one of my current projects, guess some people may have heard a bit about it already:

http://candystandblog.blogspot.com/

( Entry: Eclipse Polarity: Game Video in case it's been bumped down ).

Also doing a game for Grolsch which was inspired by the Honda ad / impossible machines, where you've got to get a ball across a bar using various bar related stuff. That should be live by the start of next week too.

Looking pretty free after that, which is nice :)

Some great looking stuff in this thread, hope to see it all come to pass ( I've not been able to face looking at the old threads 'cause there's so much in there I've promised which is still sitting on my hd ).

Squize.

Well since we got this thread going, thought I would post an update to my enforcer game.

As stated previously, I am running into alot of problems with my original concept, so after studying my muse "Lethal Enforcer" I have decided to just make a remake of that same game, just with updated graphics. I'm really having alot of fun with it, and since the game has already been made I have a product to look at and see what I can improve and what works well.

So I am a bit excited about it now, I plan to still use my originaly created level as some sort of bonus level, or un-lockable level for those who beat the game.

Here are some screen shots

here is a youtube video of the original game (which I am sure everyone has played back in the day)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbCdnIDjphU
http://creativededication.com/Hosting/examplee2.jpg
http://creativededication.com/Hosting/examplle.jpg
http://creativededication.com/Hosting/exampllee.jpg



These screen shots are of just of the seperate models and some animation sequences.

Hi Folks,

Just a little game i'm putting together at the moment.
It's going great but for a little problem i'm having with the bouns boxes.
Need to crank the speed up and add more levels, Bonus levels.
Taking awhile as i'm doing this in my spare time.

The link is here...

http://fruitfiesta.awardspace.co.uk/

Ivorsmallun...

http://www.stimunation.com/blog/publ...load/orson.gif
>titans<

im jealous
although im barely doing anything about it at the moment, i am too at least thinking about all the games yet-to-come

1st game idea: much revised version of what i made at first: a pong game based in space, with a plot, (hopefully) much better graphics, and so many features people wont believe its even pong

2nd: a game completely made of paper (and other school supplies), should be quite easy to do i would think, how hard could it be to doodle?

3rd: dont know how to explain this one, imagine a heliattack type style, but with vehicles instead, and other cool physicy things (train without a track? that should be fun to drive)

all of these are barely ideas, i just think of some funny lines, picture some nice vector graphics, and think of kickass ideas and think "that can go right...there"

I can't decide whether to hate everyone else for making my game look like crap or to hate myself for making a game that looks like crap.

@tomsamson: oooo I wanna see more about >titan<

@marmotte: wwwwhhhhheeeeennnn exactly will it be online and wheeeeerrrreeee?

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Originally Posted by ivorsmallun

Hi Folks,

Just a little game i'm putting together at the moment.
It's going great but for a little problem i'm having with the bouns boxes.
Need to crank the speed up and add more levels, Bonus levels.
Taking awhile as i'm doing this in my spare time.

The link is here...

http://fruitfiesta.awardspace.co.uk/

Ivorsmallun...

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umm, not sure but I think I found a bug, right before the level was completed i got a box that froze me, when the next level was about to start a second bucket appeared, then once level started my frozen bucket disappeared...

Trying to make some sort of rpg engine. In the moment it has... almost nothing at all (not even z-sorting) =P

http://navarro.phpnet.us/EngineV03.html

looks cool, where are the graphics from?

Thanks =]
The graphics are all riped from SNES Seiken Densetsu 3 (or secret of mana 2 in EUA, excellent game by the way).

It's lagging at night ^^

You'd better use some bitmapdata palette changes I think.

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@tomsamson: oooo I wanna see more about >titan<

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:) and i would love to show more of the actual game but sadly that won´t work at this point. (Bound to a NDA like most of the times).

I can tell about the background of the dev of the title a bit though :)

We´ve started working on titans a good while ago as freetime project.
(As subtle idea to see around how long exactly,does anyone remember since when it says "team titan secret lair" below my tomsamson avatar tag here on fk? ;) )

We had big plans for it right from the start,this should be our biggest game,the game we maybe even bring on console later.

Well,as we expected we couldn´t do that right away,besides technical barriers like getting more into c++ and specifically console game dev there´s of course the huge money barriere regarding dev and release costs for console games which hinders indy developers to do it easily.

We still believed in the project though and worked a good while on art and several dummy test engines. Just in flash,but it helped us bring the concept forward a lot.

Next i heard of a mobile 3d contest,which was essentially about doing a game concept for a cell phone 3d game. The winner prizes included getting a porting deal for the game with release option on mobile.
Well,we took part,our game made it among the finalist 12 among tons of entries (sadly the contest was screwed up then by some of the organisers who should have sent dev kits out to all finalists to do a playable demo of their game with those kits but they didn´t (till last week before deadline ;-) ), so that at the end only those finalists could submit an entry on time for the final round of the multi round contest who already had such dev kits).

Well,anyway,at the end we got 3ds max for free as reward for becoming finalists (which we obviously used heavily in some of our games since then ;) ) and way more important it strengthened our believe in the game,if we somehow made it to get to show it a bigger audience there was obviously a chance that a big crowd would like it =)

That was great, but yup, then we put the game on hold for a long timespan anyway,without the option of financial support it just wasn´t realistic we could pull the full dev time and release it on our own on consoles and yup, even for a webgame it was too expensive in production scale for any clients we had up to then.

Instead we made several other games for clients,always with the thought one day there would be the right person or company seeing the potential and wanting to invest into it to have some version of this game =)

Well,long story short,the time has come and we´re working on it again :)
I could show some older images we have of our first mockups for the game (which are of course not under any new contract NDA),though yeah,the new one is quite different in many way,so why bother :)
At the end we´ll have some months with lots of work and finally see if people like it as much as i hope they do =)

We have some more sweet stuff in the pipeline besides titans,but yup,titans is my baby for a long time,that´s why i´m so excited about seeing how it grows up =)

Wow, everyhting is looking great guys. Looking forward to playing alot of these once they come out.

render, are those tank screens for a game or just a 3D project? Look'n pretty good. Really liked the mud effect, how'd you rig that sucker?

ever, look'n awesome man. Really shapin up to be a flash version of that police game. The 3d and the bad guys look great.

squize and tom, can't wait too see eclipse polarity in action. Oh and good luck with that titan game. That guy looks really cool.

ooo, titans is back in development :D been wanting to play it for ages! :p

Squize - that vid of eclipse is looking sweet :)

Ali

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That was great, but yup, then we put the game on hold for a long timespan anyway,without the option of financial support it just wasn´t realistic we could pull the full dev time and release it on our own on consoles and yup, even for a webgame it was too expensive in production scale for any clients we had up to then.

Instead we made several other games for clients,always with the thought one day there would be the right person or company seeing the potential and wanting to invest into it to have some version of this game =)

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Good luck guys! Knowing quality of your work I realize titans will be something incredible!

Cheers walsher & Aly.

I've been proper ill this week so I'm a bit out of the loop, but I believe Polarity really is in it's final testing phase ( I've never known a project beta tested so much ) so should be out any day now.

Can't wait :)

Squize.

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Originally Posted by fil_razorback

It's lagging at night ^^

You'd better use some bitmapdata palette changes I think.

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Ye, that "night mode" was just for fun, it is really lagging but... well, it is not a priority. On the other hand, i am not really familiar with bitmapdata palletes, i will take a closer look to this, maybe it can be usefull not for this, but for other ideas that are coming in my mind =P
Thanks anyway!

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Cheers walsher & Aly.

I've been proper ill this week so I'm a bit out of the loop, but I believe Polarity really is in it's final testing phase ( I've never known a project beta tested so much ) so should be out any day now.

Can't wait

Squize.

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That video was SWEET, can´t wait to see the game finished (that homing missle at 00:34 is BEAUTIFUL)