PGD Annual 2006: Last Stage!

[aidave]

I read this board alot but dont post too much ... one reason is time!

The other factor is this competition ... I want to win, so I didnt post too many shots and videos, because that might give my opponents ideas etc.

[aidave]

here is a video of our final boss in Blocked!
thought you might find this interesting:

Blocked - Big Bad Boss.wmv
23mb
:spidey:

will post a series of level tutorials too,

cheers!
dave
ps. i got a cold so i sound funny

[Huehnerschaender]

Jesus!!! You guys are crazy ^^

How long does the whole fight take?

Muhahahaha!!!

Great job!

But one question, maybe I am wrong, but it seems that the endboss-fight really needs 20 minutes or so as far as I can see from the video. I mean, you really did a great job!!! But who wants to fight a single enemy that long?

Maybe you should adjust the fight a little in the left time in a way that it is done in maybe 5 mins or so.

Anyway, you have my cheers for this boss!

Greetings,
Dirk

PS: My endboss looks like a flee compared to yours :lol:

[Traveler]

Hahaha that was a great video!
I have still no idea what your game is about, but it looks like its fun.

Btw, I loved the way how you put up that console, typed in some stuff and blew the whole thing up

Thanks for sharing.

[aidave]

Thanks for the feedback.
the Cloudipede boss takes quite a while and effort to defeat...
He is the final boss tho!

We decided to divide his health by half,
so he's more fun to blow up!

[Huehnerschaender]

Yes... I finally got all goals done.

I dare to post my (nearly) entry here, and I am aware of outing all my ideas to all the competitors. But I know time is short and in the left 2 days I guess every competitor wants to polish his own entry instead of implementing things from others.

So all I want to know is if you find bugs which I can fix in the left time. I have some things on my ToDo-list and will do all I can to fix all issues I know, but I have family, the weather is fine and two childs want to be entertained at weekend. So I think this will be what I enter for stage 6. I surely will do some polish to leveldesign and maybe some minor changes here and there, but the game itself will stay the same.

I am proud of what I achieved alone in the last 3 months. And I hope everyone else is, too. This was my biggest challenge in game developement and 3 months of hard work are over now. My family suffered from my absence at night (especially my girlfriend :lol: ) and I am at the end of my rope. Sleeping only 4 hours a night is fun, you realize how long a day really is. But I really have to tell you, my real life suffered from this contest. So I don't know if I would do so hard work again "just for fun".

Ok, here we go. I just told you about my experiences because the upload was running and I was a little bored *lol*

But essentially this is what I think about the contest. I loved to be a part of it, I really enjoyed the hard work, I surely will try to take part in the follwoing competitions. But it really scrounged me.

I hope some people like what I have done for this contest:

http://www.dino-it.de/TanxBoss.zip

This is about 20MB to download.

4 levels to play.

Cheers and the best wishes to all who submit stage 6 entrys! There are some "opponents" I really got a relationship to, like Traveler who was my "interlocutor" late at night. Hey, you really have to change your avatar! I already see this as a photo of yours!

[aidave]

YI am proud of what I achieved alone in the last 3 months. And I hope everyone else is, too. This was my biggest challenge in game developement and 3 months of hard work are over now. My family suffered from my absence at night (especially my girlfriend :lol: ) and I am at the end of my rope. Sleeping only 4 hours a night is fun, you realize how long a day really is. But I really have to tell you, my real life suffered from this contest. So I don't know if I would do so hard work again "just for fun".

I know exactly how you feel!
After this weekend, back into party mode for me!

I'm going to try your game tonight.
thx

[Huehnerschaender]

Oh, forgot to post the controls:

AWSD = steer tank (AZERTY supported)
R = fire rocket (needs rocketlaucher and ammo)
SPACE = change gun mode (Air/Ground)
X = start Bombdrone (need to pick up one)
SPACE = drop bomb from drone (when steering drone)
left mousebutton = fire cannon
right mousebutton = fire machine gun
Mousewheel = Zoom in/out
M = ingame Map
ESC = Options ingame / Pause game
P = Screenshot

@aidave
Oh yeah... party would be nice... If the distance wouldn't be that big, I would suggest all competitors making a party together after the contest :lol:

[Traveler]

I am proud of what I achieved alone in the last 3 months. And I hope everyone else is, too. This was my biggest challenge in game developement and 3 months of hard work are over now. My family suffered from my absence at night (especially my girlfriend Laughing ) and I am at the end of my rope. Sleeping only 4 hours a night is fun, you realize how long a day really is. But I really have to tell you, my real life suffered from this contest. So I don't know if I would do so hard work again "just for fun".

I think we can all relate to that. I too have my share of friends who say: "You really shouldn't work so hard, go do something fun. Life is not all about work you know..."

Cheers and the best wishes to all who submit stage 6 entrys! There are some "opponents" I really got a relationship to, like Traveler who was my "interlocutor" late at night. Hey, you really have to change your avatar! I already see this as a photo of yours!

Thanks! And also for your PMs.
My avatar will probably be changed in a month or so. It was actually a part of the competition logo, but in the end something else was used instead.

Anyway, for those who, like me, need to do crunch time: all the best & good luck!

[AthenaOfDelphi]

Dirk,

Just played Tanx... WOW... its awesome, nice job.

I did get a couple of errors... on the training mission, there was a box of rockets that I picked up, but they stayed there... then everytime I went over them, I got the rocket ammo message, but no fx, didn't see whether or not I got more ammo.

The other, main issue related to my main gun. I fired it at something, but from that point on, whenever I fired, the explosion came from inside my tank and I couldn't damage anything with it.

Apart from those two issues, it was great.