Bouldermouse 2

[Firlefanz]

Hi Folks,

since The Innominate is such a large project we started something smaller. Bouldermouse will be finished soon, it is full playable.

Shareware will come with 5 Level, Full with 40 Level and a level-editor for creating own sets.

It is a 2D game with 3D GFX, gameidea based on a classic game.

http://www.ericbehme.de/bilder/boulder/screen1.jpg
http://www.ericbehme.de/bilder/boulder/screen2.jpg
http://www.ericbehme.de/bilder/boulder/screen3.jpg
http://www.ericbehme.de/bilder/boulder/screen4.jpg

Release the next couple of weeks.

Project page:
http://www.ericbehme.de/magicstorm/bouldermouse2.html

See ya!
Firle

PS: It is made using DanJetX for GFX and Squallsound for SFX and Music.

[savage]

Looks interesting, but not had the chance to play it yet.

I've bumped your post to news item.

[jasonf]

Cool, I love boulderdash.

You might want to do something to avoid the repetitive blocky tiles look though.. every version I've seen so far suffers from it.

perhaps using simple cubes for collision detection but more complex blocks for the tiles and having variations on them. It would really add to the look of the game.

It looks like you've already got the mechanics in there, I'm really looking forward to playing it.

[Firlefanz]

Hey Jason,

if you wanna play it, I'll sent you the link to the beta when I am home again. You have to see it in motion, I find the blocky look cool when the camera moves... :D

In the news it looks strange and there is a valkyre something link and a red X in the bottom...

Firle

[jasonf]

That'll be really cool :)

Which application are you using to do your 3d graphics?

[Firlefanz]

Hexagon 2 for modelling and Truespace 6.5 also for modelling mainly for animations. I have two pals which create the GFX. :wink:

Firle

[WILL]

Hey Eric, nice work!

Dom or Eric; unfortunately because the news script cuts of at X chars it merged this post with the previous news post so one cannot link here properly now. Can someone rig this post so it doesn't do that?

[chronozphere]

Looking good :clap:

I like the textures very much. They might look blocky but that doesn't bother me too much.

Wish you good luck on completing this one. (and i'm sure you will) ;)

[Firlefanz]

Thanks!

And the menu now supports 4 languages 8)

Firle

[Bijo]

The title Bouldermouse made me laugh, heh heh. From what I see it looks nice :D


I saw your thread regarding language support but it was closed last time I checked (must be the required three heading lines). It is a nice thing to have more languages. If you need a translator if there's significant story going on I *might* have time (slight chance) now and then if you require French or German (though it has been a while since I've practised them).

[Firlefanz]

I am german myself.

My french is not very well. So you might help me with that if you like :D

I will have a complete language table in a few days...

Firle

[Firlefanz]

Made a small movie for your viewing pleasure :D

http://www.ericbehme.de/public/Film.wmv

We got 10 level until now...

[savage]

Nice video. Reminded me of the new Prince of Persia that was released recently on Xbox live.

[WILL]

Nice Eric. Is that a little monkey? Evil monkey.... :evil:

Mind if I post this on YouTube? (You can water mark it with the Magic Storm logo first and I'll post that one if you like?)

[Firlefanz]

Hi!

It's kind of monkeymouse lol.

Please do not upload anywhere this time. We'll have a better one soon also with logo etc. :wink:

Thanks,
Firle

[WILL]

Ok, great. Just send it my way.

It's looking great Eric, keep up the quality work you guys are doing! ;)

[Firlefanz]

We'll do a nice video with a logo video and more scenes soon :)

Thanks Will :D

[Firlefanz]

With shadermodel 2.0 (thanks Dan) of the new DanJetX version it currently looks like this (on good hardware)

http://www.ericbehme.de/phpBB2/files/shader20_784.jpg

[Firlefanz]

For everybody who wants to play a bit:

http://www.ericbehme.de/download/Boulder070705.zip

I hope we'll soon finish the game.

The thing we need most are levels lol :D

Firle

[wodzu]

Looks very nice. I'll check it out when back to home :)

[Firlefanz]

Yes there is only a bug when game over, you'll have to finish it with Alt+F4 then, I will fix that in the next version.

[NecroDOME]

Nice game...

Reminds me of the old game Supaplex (I guess you got the idea from it?)

[Firlefanz]

Is Supaplex the same as Boulder Dash?

In the 80s there were plenty games of this kind, Boulder Dash, Rockford, Fruity Frank etcetc.

We hope to finish it this month, it needs musik, some polishing, online highscores and much more level...

There will be a shareware with 5 level and a full with 40 or 50 level for 8 Euro I think.

Firle

[NecroDOME]

well, boulder dash looks older :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supaplex
http://freeware-game-downloads.com/gameimages/supaplex.png