Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

[r3jonwah85]

Getting around to implementing the systems for gibbing and gore, graphics looks bad but the system works. Will have to work on the system that spawns pools of blood as well, but one thing at the time.

 

[r3jonwah85]

 

[DavidBVal]

Released my game this monday 21st, things are going fine. In just 4 days (and weird days with Xmas and all) I'm approaching 500 downloads, already sold 14 licenses.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Released my game this monday 21st, things are going fine. In just 4 days (and weird days with Xmas and all) I'm approaching 500 downloads, already sold 14 licenses.

Congratulations, bro.
I wish I had time to work on my game, but I won't be able to do shit till late January.

 

[DavidBVal]

Congratulations, bro.
I wish I had time to work on my game, but I won't be able to do shit till late January.

Just keep the goal there in your mind, and it won't escape. This is a long-distance race...

 

[Alchemist]

Released my game this monday 21st, things are going fine. In just 4 days (and weird days with Xmas and all) I'm approaching 500 downloads, already sold 14 licenses.

Congrats! Exiled Kingdoms right? Going to download to my tablet and give it a spin.

 

[DavidBVal]

Congrats! Exiled Kingdoms right? Going to download to my tablet and give it a spin.

Yeah that one. I hope you like it! Here is it:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.fdgames.ek.android

I am considering opening a thread about selling on the play store, would that be interesting to others here?

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

I am considering opening a thread about selling on the play store, would that be interesting to others here?

I was watching your game with moderate interest and this is the first time I ever read the actual name of your game.
Just do it already.

 

[shihonage]

Impressive. And no less impressive that you got someone to do 2D isometric art and human animations for you in this day and age.

 

[DavidBVal]

Impressive. And no less impressive that you got someone to do 2D isometric art and human animations for you in this day and age.

Thanks. But no one did anything "for me". I purchased existing (cheap) models and items and rendered them in Blender to generate sprites, or used existing open assets, or even made them myself or derived from commercial ones. It's been two lonely years. But woah, seeing it being downloaded and selling, and all the positive feedback and praise from players, is a feeling hard to describe with words. I've been dreaming about making a RPG since I was a kid, now finally I did it.

 

[Archibald]

So how much you need/want to sell for it to be "worth it"?

 

[DavidBVal]

It is already worth it. I got a multiplatform isometric RPG engine. I can write my stories and encounters and people play them and have fun, all accross the world. The fact they pay me is awesome, but not for the money itself, as I am already an IT manager with a decent salary, it is awesome because it means they REALLY love it. Now of course, I fantasize about dedicating fully to create games, and to make more ambitious/serious RPGs, and that would require a certain income, but that's not something I'm thinking about currently, it's too early and I'll need at least 3 months to finish this game. I want to focus on finishing Exiled Kingdoms for now.

 

[Ninjerk]

Do you have a dev blog/diary or anything of the sort?

 

[shihonage]

I am already an IT manager with a decent salary[...] two lonely years [...]

Ah, the blessing of having enough eye endurance to survive the monitors at work, and then at home.

 

[slowdive]

I am considering opening a thread about selling on the play store, would that be interesting to others here?

I would be interested in hearing your experiences with building and releasing on Google Play store. Any lessons learned or insight would be great. When I released my first app, I emailed the dev of gurk and the trese brothers to see if they had any insights to share from their experience and I found that to be very helpful. Your app looks great (downloaded and played a bit from work here). Best of luck with continued development. Did you go with Java and android studio to develop your own custom engine or use something like Unity?

 

[DavidBVal]

I'm a bit busy these days, but I'll open a proper thread about all this during the weekend.

 

[barker_s]

Ah, the blessing of having enough eye endurance to survive the monitors at work, and then at home.

Most managers I know actually get a lot of time off the monitor. Truth be told, they don't even do that much coding due to meetings and whatnot. Guess that's one way to save your eyesight - get yourself a managerial position ;P .

 

[Zed]

first step in creating an automap (see top left). pretty tricky to base it on 24x12 tile isometric in-game "grid", but that's what I'm going with

 

[DavidBVal]

Well done. the world needs more isometric games!!!!!

 

[Zed]

it would only be isometric for exploration, kind of like lords of xulima

next I want to decide on which type of walls to use.

A - edge-to-edge (filling the entire grid)
B - in-grid wall (like underrail)

I'm leaning towards B. It leaves a nice gap between wall and player, make small rooms look less cramped, makes doorways look better, gives room for varied size walls.

 

[DavidBVal]

it would only be isometric for exploration, kind of like lords of xulima

next I want to decide on which type of walls to use.

A - edge-to-edge (filling the entire grid)
B - in-grid wall (like underrail)

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I'm leaning towards B. It leaves a nice gap between wall and player, make small rooms look less cramped, makes doorways look better, gives room for varied size walls.

I'm using B myself.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

How do you feel about walls on grid lines, between the tiles. Like for example in Xcom or Jagged Alliance 2?

 

[Zed]

How do you feel about walls on grid lines, between the tiles. Like for example in Xcom or Jagged Alliance 2?

it's also an option, but it makes it trickier to create width variations without spilling over and blocking two grids.

 

[Jonny Ree]

it would only be isometric for exploration, kind of like lords of xulima

next I want to decide on which type of walls to use.

A - edge-to-edge (filling the entire grid)
B - in-grid wall (like underrail)

View attachment 6451

I'm leaning towards B. It leaves a nice gap between wall and player, make small rooms look less cramped, makes doorways look better, gives room for varied size walls.

I think the spacing you mention is a good reason to go with Looking nice!


Working on ingame level editing myself:

 

[Pope Amole II]

Finally got greenlit. Despite taking almost a year, it's a bit too early, lol - I've only just now found ourselves an anime artist (a really cool one, will post something here eventually) and I don't want to get any kind of release until we get at least some promotional material in that department. Not to mention that I need to move out of my city before I can get all the legal stuff done. Anyways, it's still nice to solve that issue (even if getting released on steam doesn't mean much nowadays).

So while we're polishing X Caeli visuals (I have some nice game mechanical plans, but I'm saving them for the Early Access), I'm designing our next game. I can even post a little snippet of our schemes from our development wiki, I'm sure that people are totally gonna appreciate this one:

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