The Probe

[chronozphere]

Thanks to Patrick, also known by the name Major-Davis (http://major-davis.deviantart.com/), I now have a tune I am using for my main menu screens, but as I don’t actually have any menus yet, it is my game music instead for now! LOL

I can't find any music on his page. Maybe it's just me looking at the wrong place. Where is it?

Also, how did you find him so quickly? I STILL need to find someone who let me use his/her music in my IGF entry.

[paul_nicholls]

Thanks to Patrick, also known by the name Major-Davis (http://major-davis.deviantart.com/), I now have a tune I am using for my main menu screens, but as I don’t actually have any menus yet, it is my game music instead for now! LOL

I can't find any music on his page. Maybe it's just me looking at the wrong place. Where is it?

Also, how did you find him so quickly? I STILL need to find someone who let me use his/her music in my IGF entry.

LOL! I can't actually find any music on his page either, but I first heard of him on the page below where he donated a song to another musician called C418

http://c418.org/?p=486

I really liked the tune so I contacted c418 who gave me Patrick's email and got permission to use the track

BTW, I am also allowed to use C418's songs however I want too if I like any of them, and so can you

Patrick's email is this:

patrick AT australis-dev DOT net

Perhaps he has some more songs? I don't know

cheers,
Paul

[paul_nicholls]

Hey all,
I have updated my site (http://theprobegame.com) so you can now (hopefully, not tested) subscribe using RSS, or by email

cheers,
Paul

[virtual]

Congrats

[paul_nicholls]

Hey all,
I have now gotten into The Probe a main menu with scrolling credits at the bottom!

I just have to use my BBCode parser to parse the credits text instead of me adding the different parts of the credits maually LOL

here is a screenshot:


I haven't uploaded this version yet though...

cheers,
Paul

[Traveler]

Looks good! Are you planning on having something in the background? Currently it looks a bit boring to me.

[Stoney]

I agree. It looks really good. What font are you using for the main menu?

[paul_nicholls]

@Traveler: Thanks I was thinking of something in the background, but I have no idea what yet.

In the game itself, there is a nebula...perhaps I could do similar here too?

I am also thinking of adding a couple of staggered columns of game wall tiles on the sides of the menu screens (o = wall tile):

o                            oo
oo                            o
o                            oo
oo                            o
o                            oo
oo                            o
o                            oo
oo                            o

The plan is to make these columns fill into the center of the screen and back again like a door to change between screens too

@Stoney: Thanks for the kind words I am using the font from here:

http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=bladerunner

I downloaded it, and used Nitrogen's Font Studio to make 2 sized fonts for the game

cheers,
Paul

[WILL]

Hey I've got an idea for ya... the background you could have a video flicker effect throw in some 'video static' and you could also have that nebula effect with an old TV scanline effect too. Make it look like a probe video feed. You can combine it with your columns idea too.

[Traveler]

I suppose anything would do. I think my vote would go to sort of an artistic visualization of a level, like for example how you did the header on your website. The title perhaps could be composed of those gray blocks.
Also, I would not align the menu like that, unless there is a good reason for it of course, such as an image that is placed next to it and the menu is aligned to follow a pattern to match the image. Centered alignment is usually the best way to go.