Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

[Alchemist]

That is looking quite sexy!

Looks good, bruh. Come on, I want to play your game already.

Thanks! I wish I could work on it more often but I have too much going on at the moment to make fast progress. Trying to chip away at least a little bit every day from here out though.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

That is looking quite sexy!

Thanks, bruh!

Thanks! I wish I could work on it more often but I have too much going on at the moment to make fast progress. Trying to chip away at least a little bit every day from here out though.

Sounds like you'll need some help with your project, if you catch my drift.

 

[mutonizer]

This is a test of enemy pathfinding and movement speed to see how long it will take to take another turn @ runtime.

What's taking time is probably not pathfinding/AI itself but the LERP movement itself. Should do a raycast/vision check and if not in the field of view, remove LERP and just teleport the AI units around directly. Once I did that in my own demo of related stuff, could have dozens of AI around the map and turns were near instant.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Should do a raycast/vision check and if not in the field of view, remove LERP and just teleport the AI units around directly.

That's the plan, actually.
Still thinking about the number of enemies that you can fight simultaneously, though. I thought about limiting the combat to 1 enemy per encounter, but we'll see, the latest progress kinda fills me with confidence that I can pull it off. Getting ambushed and raped by 2-3 enemies is not a bad idea.

 

[DavidBVal]

You've been up to some awesome stuff the months I've been "out" folks. Some impressive projects here.

 

[Rhuantavan]

Been working on modular terrain tiles. Here's the full article if someone's interested in the details.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Keep up the good work, Rhuantavan, the game looks good.
I'll keep dreaming that eventually you'll try to make your own Daggerfall.

 

[Rhuantavan]

Thanks, though you might get a more closed , but all handcrafted world, like in BaK. It does show, doesn't it?

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Yeah, hand-crafter worlds packed with content are good, regardless of the size.
Never played BaK, though. Updated my backlog.

 

[ragnor]

Very early screenshot from our new game. Its going to be a turn based tactical rpg game.

 

[Mastermind]

anybody got a link to some goldbox/eotb/whatever style wall/floor sprites? I wanna try my hand at building the core for a 1st person step based engine in gamemaker.

 

[Ninjerk]

Village Exteriors and Interiors are on sale in the Unity Asset Store (as seen in Keldryn's thingie).

 

[Wayward Son]

Very early screenshot from our new game. Its going to be a turn based tactical rpg game.

Looks good. Hope it gets finished.

 

[Alchemist]

anybody got a link to some goldbox/eotb/whatever style wall/floor sprites? I wanna try my hand at building the core for a 1st person step based engine in gamemaker.

This page here is what you need:
http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=26465

They have the wall tilesets from Dungeon Master 2, Dungeon Hack, Captive, Knightmare, Eye of the Beholder 1,2,3 - etc.

This page has the tile resources from Black Crypt:
http://raven-05.narod.ru/

 

[ragnor]

Looks good. Hope it gets finished.

I hope so too


edit:
Here some Dm style gfx

http://opengameart.org/content/dungeon-tiles-0
http://opengameart.org/content/pseudo-3d-fantasy-sprites-and-backgrounds
http://opengameart.org/content/first-person-dungeon-crawl-art-pack
http://opengameart.org/content/denzis-25d-1st-person-mini-dungeon

All of them are in totally different styles. Choose as you wish. There might be more examples in opengameart.org too.

 

[Wayward Son]

^ Thanks.

 

[Rhuantavan]

Still trying to figure out the style of the 3d gfx. Went from regular tree billboards to a cross-billboard, since the rotation of the trees as you stood close was nauseating. Added some more detail to two buildings, but I am unsure if I want the textures that clean. Will probably go with a little more detailed and natural textures in the end (stone walls, bricks, thatched roof etc.)... dunno. Played around with lighting and ended up with a mix of dynamic and ambient light.

 

[ragnor]

Still very wip but a small combat scenario which player uses surroundings to keep himself surrounded more

By the way if you want to follow the game here is its IndieDB page (http://www.indiedb.com/games/dark-trails) and Twitter page (https://twitter.com/darktrailsgame).

Still trying to figure out the style of the 3d gfx. Went from regular tree billboards to a cross-billboard, since the rotation of the trees as you stood close was nauseating. Added some more detail to two buildings, but I am unsure if I want the textures that clean. Will probably go with a little more detailed and natural textures in the end (stone walls, bricks, thatched roof etc.)... dunno. Played around with lighting and ended up with a mix of dynamic and ambient light.

Looks great, you really can get the 95-96 era early 3d games vibe. I have to agree with you with the clean textures, they need to be get a little dirty .

 

[Rhuantavan]

Here, I've remodeled and retextured the house. I will probably go onwards with this look.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Yeah, that looks much better.

 

[Wayward Son]

Beautiful.

 

[r3jonwah85]

A prototype for a course, kind of shit but you know, explosions...

 

[ragnor]

you might want to reduce the flash on the explosions. it blinded me every time, it could be very obstructive to the player. other than that it looks nice.

 

[vean]

Here, I've remodeled and retextured the house. I will probably go onwards with this look.

It's hard to say looking at different scenes, but I like the former better.

The new version looks "too textured" for the number of polys you have.

Kinda like Elite 2 looks better than Elite 3 to my eyes

 

[Rhuantavan]

It's hard to say looking at different scenes, but I like the former better.

The new version looks "too textured" for the number of polys you have.

Kinda like Elite 2 looks better than Elite 3 to my eyes

With Elite, I totally agree, but I by far prefer my latter house model. It is true that it doesn't fit as perfectly into the environment as of now, but I'll have the environment treated in a similar fashion. I am kind of having BaK look more like RoA: Star Trail. Still, I can't be certain if this is the way to go, without first having the world treated. I appreciate all of the feedback.