Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

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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CYKA BLYAT, do you need my help with the music?

 

[Pope Amole II]

CYKA BLYAT, do you need my help with the music?

Let us have some kind of a technical demo first - without a demo, it's gonna be a pain in the ass to explain what kind of project is that.

And keep in mind that, if that's not clear, that's gonna be a totally christian project. We won't be doing something corny like Super Noah Ark 3D, it's gonna be more grimdark - basically, theurges battling satanic demons in the profane underground mazes. But still, I doubt that's an alignment that many on the codex agree with.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

And keep in mind that, if that's not clear, that's gonna be a totally christian project. We won't be doing something corny like Super Noah Ark 3D, it's gonna be more grimdark - basically, theurges battling satanic demons in the profane underground mazes. But still, I doubt that's an alignment that many on the codex agree with.

Oboi, count me in and keep me updated.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

RPG settings that are basically medieval fantasy Europe "but we took out the Christianity lol" are gay. And sadly the norm. Your angle is welcome Pope Amole.

 

[gaussgunner]

I am down with that too. The Church was a powerful force, a defining characteristic of medieval Europe. I wouldn't mind playing a part in it. Sounds better than the usual "lone wolf with superpowers" RPG scenarios.

 

[an Administrator]

Is it possible to add some crusade elements too?

 

[DavidBVal]

Crusades are awesome, but imho they've been done to death already. It would require a well studied approach, to make it interesting.

 

[an Administrator]

a crusade setting with fantasy elements can be awesome.
You are chosen by khalifa. You have Djin companions to fight crusaders and defend Jerusalem
:D
Or main character can choose his side.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

I'd love to see a Jagged Alliance 2-inspired game, but set somewhere in the Medieval European town, but you control a party of muslims who must deliver tons of Allah's love and justice to dem infidels through mass beheadings and bloodshed while taking drugs during short moments of silence.

Also

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converting teen girls to Islam and thus getting a place to hide while increasing your endurance stat.

Shit, I'm getting too excited when I think of such a game.

 

[an Administrator]

I'd love to see a Jagged Alliance 2-inspired game, but set somewhere in the Medieval European town, but you control a party of muslims who must deliver tons of Allah's love and justice to dem infidels through mass beheadings and bloodshed while taking drugs during short moments of silence.

Also

Spoiler

converting teen girls to Islam and thus getting a place to hide while increasing your endurance stat.

Shit, I'm getting too excited when I think of such a game.

Or you could capture cities and take Jazyya from non belivers for the sake of

 

[r3jonwah85]

Been working with Unity again combined with the Google Cardboard SDK for my day job, this inspired me to start making a Descent clone that I intend to make playable in VR. Google Cardboard was way more impressive than I expected (with the right headset and phone; I have been using a Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 and some different headsets like FreeFly VR, BoboVR Z3 and Shinecon VR). Anyway, spent the evening to get basic movement working and it works pretty OK, have to install Descent and play some to get the feeling right since I have not touched the game since 1997 or something like that.

 

[Siveon]

There's actually a term for Descent movement, it's called 6DoF (Six degrees of freedom). Cool demo!

 

[Jonny Ree]

Been working with Unity again combined with the Google Cardboard SDK for my day job, this inspired me to start making a Descent clone that I intend to make playable in VR. Google Cardboard was way more impressive than I expected (with the right headset and phone; I have been using a Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 and some different headsets like FreeFly VR, BoboVR Z3 and Shinecon VR). Anyway, spent the evening to get basic movement working and it works pretty OK, have to install Descent and play some to get the feeling right since I have not touched the game since 1997 or something like that.

Very cool! The turns are looking really satisfying


I'm keeping with the boardgame theme and made a plastic looking shader for my flame pieces.

 

[r3jonwah85]

There's actually a term for Descent movement, it's called 6DoF (Six degrees of freedom). Cool demo!

Very cool! The turns are looking really satisfying


I'm keeping with the boardgame theme and made a plastic looking shader for my flame pieces.
http://bouncyrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/fire.png

Thanks both of you!

Jonny Ree: Man your graphics are really to die for, when will more general info be released?

Wanted to add some more mechanics to the movement to allow for more dynamic level design later on, so there are now two modes: first mode is normal 6DOF, the other one is close to normal FPS-mode but with a jetpack added.

 

[r3jonwah85]

Very small update, added some sounds and other minor stuff.

 

[Zep Zepo]

@r3jonwah85,

I think you need to add some code to the camera. Instead of stopping abruptly like it does now, add a little momentum to it, to it gradually stops. I think it would look better.

Zep--

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Finally got some free time to continue working on muh gayme.

Jerky movement is no more, but the speed needs additional tweaking and slopes/stairs aren't implemented yet. Also, the current 'graphics style' is just a placeholder until I'm done with the majority of gameplay-related stuff. Not as impressive as Alchemist's style, but eh.

 

[r3jonwah85]

Anyone tried yet? https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/

EDIT: I had heard bad things about CryEngine before (this is branched from that) and so far I can see why. Nothing is really intuitive, hell it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to select the default ocean and get rid of it... User interface also looks like bloated AutoCAD style, cant have folder to organize assets (at least not what I could find), have not yet found any way to toggle the lighting between unlit and lit, no default outline of the scene entities for selection, only way to get rid of terrain seem to be using ugly tricks, it seems as if physics stop working outside of specified terrain borders... Supposed to be even worse when it comes to actual coding since the documentation is severely lacking.

Now I might be stupid but I see no reason why anyone would use this over Unity 5 or UE4.

 

[Wayward Son]

Hey guys, I was thinking between Unity or RPGMaker. Which one should I go with?

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Hey guys, I was thinking between Unity or RPGMaker. Which one should I go with?

Depends on what you want?

If you want to make retro(tm) jrpgs, try RPGMaker.
If you want to make something else, try Unity or UE4 or whatever new engine appears on the 'net.

 

[Wayward Son]

I want to make a 90s type isometric WRPG.
EDIT: Is there some way to extract Fallout 2's game engine? That's the kind of thing I want, albeit in a fantasy setting.

 

[J1M]

GameMaker Studio is another alternative.

 

[Alchemist]

I want to make a 90s type isometric WRPG.

Have a look at the Godot Engine. It even includes an isometric 2D demo project (with realtime lighting!) to get you started:

The main drawback is a lack of complete documentation at this point. It's otherwise a very powerful, yet lean and mean engine, and the dedicated 2D mode is nice. 100% free and open-source too.

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

Alternatively theres the FOnline engine.

Heres a well known attempt at making something completely new on it.
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...-historical-fiction-12th-century-china.80544/

 

[Ninjerk]

Alternatively theres the FOnline engine.

Heres a well known attempt at making something completely new on it.
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...-historical-fiction-12th-century-china.80544/

Someone should really bump that thread.