PGD Annual 2009 - Progress

[paul_nicholls]

Some delicious screenshots





That graph on the top right is temporary. It is used for AI debugging.

Wow! so your game is playable now?

Awesome! Great job

I can't wait to try a demo

cheers,
Paul

[chronozphere]

Wow! so your game is playable now?

Haha.. Unfortunatly not yet. First, I need to add player v.s powerup collision detection, the powerup "payload", a HUD, finish and checkpoints etc..

Thanks for the nice comment btw. I see your game is pretty much finished. I'm gonna check it out soon.

[chronozphere]

Video!!! Allthough the quality is rubbish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVX_hcfE7GQ

[Traveler]

That sure is looking very nice, chronozphere!

[chronozphere]

Thanks.. I just made the powerup spawn and pickup animation.
I think I'm going to leave the checkpoints out because I have no purpose for them and I'm almost out of time. I need a finish-line though.

And there is one very important thing. I need a proper name for my game. Now that you have seen what the game is going to be like, you can probably help me with this. I need to add a title to the menu so I need to pick a name within a few days. What is a good name for this game? I was thinking of the following:

>> P.I.P.E.S (a non-existing acronym)
>> T.U.N.N.E.L (another one)
>> Pipeline racer
>> TubeRun
>> WhipeOut (nah.. just kidding )

So which one do you like best? I'm open to new suggestions ofcourse.

[paul_nicholls]

How about "Tube Racer"?

cheers,
Paul

[noeska]

Submerged is bit more playeable again.
•Player loses energy
•Player can shoot harpoons using the spacebar
•Some tiles block the players path
•Game levels are now totaly editeable from text files, On the site i also posted some info on the fileformat used.
•Shapes for sprites / tiles etc can be drawn in inkscape (just copy and paste svg paths)

If you dare try to download the alpha 1 version at http://sites.vanderhoning.net/submerged/downloads/ . Yes it is now out of pre alpha.

But with the deadline in sight and no more time i guess this also going to be my final entry :-( .

[paul_nicholls]

Thanks.. I just made the powerup spawn and pickup animation.
I think I'm going to leave the checkpoints out because I have no purpose for them and I'm almost out of time. I need a finish-line though.

And there is one very important thing. I need a proper name for my game. Now that you have seen what the game is going to be like, you can probably help me with this. I need to add a title to the menu so I need to pick a name within a few days. What is a good name for this game? I was thinking of the following:

>> P.I.P.E.S (a non-existing acronym)
>> T.U.N.N.E.L (another one)
>> Pipeline racer
>> TubeRun
>> WhipeOut (nah.. just kidding )

So which one do you like best? I'm open to new suggestions ofcourse.

I do like TubeRun too

Hey! What about TubeRunner (sounds cool, sorta like BladeRunner (movie)!! haha)

cheers,
Paul

cheers,
Paul

[NecroDOME]

Torus trooper (too bad that name already exists)
Torus runner, torus booster, torus..., donut... Uber Torus, Uber Tunnel

I also posted a little update on my site with new pictures http://www.necrosoft.nl/?p=641.

[NecroDOME]

@Paul, last night I was playing your game. I tough, lets give it a shot and I must say it looks nice. Only I have on "bug" to report. If all guns are destroyed you cannot shoot/defend the earth. When only 2 rocks/asteroids are flying around it takes a lot of time before they hit the earth. After 5 minutes I stopped the game. Maybe you could make a tiny fix or respawn some guns.