The Pit

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:12 pm

The Pit is (or is going to be) a single-player melee-styled game. It may have multiplayer (over LAN) capabilities in a later version, but for now I'll focus on the single-player stuffs.

Basically it's senseless robotic combat. Might make a good time-killer. I'll try to post more screenshots and stuff but remember that I'm a programmer, not an artist

This is a screenshot of one of the combat areas.

Current Features :
-Player loading
-Level loading
-No AI computer loading

Working on :
-Making more levels
-Working on the AI (ick)
-Getting some screenies of the robots.

Weapons :
-Grappling arm
-Melee (jagged swords, cutting arms, etc.)
-Rockets
-Lasers

Vehicles :
-Banter
-Candor

Here's a render of an untextured, unarmed Banter.

Here's a render of an untextured, armed Banter with no textures.

zeno60 · Post by **zeno60** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:52 pm

What happened to Anteron?

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:57 pm

People kept bugging me about how I need to do sideprojects, apparently it never occured to them that I never posted some of my sideprojects because I didn't like them so I guess I'll do a sideproject so people will get out of my hair about it.

Plus it'll be a nice break.

Edit : I've gone through several models that I've made and I just can't satisfy myself. Blegh. Might be a while before I post some screenshots of characters.

zeno60 · Post by **zeno60** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:31 am

monkeycracks wrote:People kept bugging me about how I need to do sideprojects, apparently it never occured to them that I never posted some of my sideprojects because I didn't like them so I guess I'll do a sideproject so people will get out of my hair about it.

Plus it'll be a nice break.

Edit : I've gone through several models that I've made and I just can't satisfy myself. Blegh. Might be a while before I post some screenshots of characters.

I would think it more important to finish up one task before taking on another, just speaking from my own experience. I'd hate to see another notch in the failed Indie RPG statistics. Anyway, good luck with the new venture.

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:35 am

Apparently it's more important to do a billion sideprojects and never do anything real. Just ask anyone who I've ever talked to about Anteron -.-

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:39 pm

If you keep blaming everybody else for your lack of focus, then your next side project might be a guest stint as Attorney General.

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:45 pm

Lack of focus? No. I was working just fine on Anteron. I don't know where you got that from.
I'm tired of people saying I can't do it, so I'm developing a side-project to shut them the gently caress up.

Nice word filter bitplane -.-

zeno60 · Post by **zeno60** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:32 pm

rogerborg wrote:If you keep blaming everybody else for your lack of focus, then your next side project might be a guest stint as Attorney General.

Zing!

monkeycracks wrote:I'm tired of people saying I can't do it, so I'm developing a side-project to shut them the gently caress up.

Your tired of people saying you'll never complete Anteron ... so you stop working on it and instead focus on a side project?

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:51 pm

'You'll never do it, you need to do other things first'

No, that's what I'm doing. Which is what I said I was doing from the start.
You'd think you can have more than one project without people going insane.

zeno60 · Post by **zeno60** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:47 pm

monkeycracks wrote:'You'll never do it, you need to do other things first'

No, that's what I'm doing. Which is what I said I was doing from the start.
You'd think you can have more than one project without people going insane.

No need for the dramatics...

Insane? No. Disappointed? Yes. And I don't believe for a second that you would stop working on Anteron, a project which you spoke very highly of, to appease these others who say you need to work on side-projects. I think you either got bored or realized; "Wow, this is actually work!" But what do I know right? I'm insane. Again, good luck with the new venture. Robot Wars was one of my favorite shows as a kid, same premise as your game. So I am looking forward to it.

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:48 pm

Finally, something positive. I liked Robot Wars as well :p

I'm not stopping work on Anteron, things are still being modeled for it. It's just slow right now due to lack of artists so I do have the time for this.

RapchikProgrammer · Post by **RapchikProgrammer** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:08 pm

People kept bugging me about how I need to do sideprojects, apparently it never occured to them that I never posted some of my sideprojects because I didn't like them so I guess I'll do a sideproject so people will get out of my hair about it.

Plus it'll be a nice break.

Edit : I've gone through several models that I've made and I just can't satisfy myself. Blegh. Might be a while before I post some screenshots of characters.

I totally agree with that! While i am working on IPhysics, i am also working on several other projects too! I believe that instead of writing 20 lines of code and hitting a bug which will force you to pull your hair out, you should work on a side project, cause working on only one project becomes very frustating, and you seem to do almost nothing because of the dead ends! Work a while on something else and come back to the project and youll solve the bugs!

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:27 pm

I got lots of side projects.. while I am achieving more at once trust me it only compiles the stress in the end.. these last few days I've been spending lots of time outdoors.

which is highly unusual for me.. in fact I just got back because I couldn't stay away either.. now I'm off to play some americas army.. later.

oh yeah.. I also welcome any new game projects.

and nice art for a only programmer. could be better though with more detail but if its just a quicky looks good enough.

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:00 pm

Thanks

. Yeah, that was just some quick stuff. Took less than an hour overall. Getting it textured nicely and some more made. Meanwhile, I coded some more of the actual game and I might have a preview within the next week. Just have a really busy weekend lined up.

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:01 pm

This sounds pretty cool. Nothing wrong with side projects you can learn things which you use in bigger projects. Also, have something that you can finish easily, just so you can feel what its like, and what it takes to get a finished product, even though it might be something small you may realise there is alot (or not much at all!) to it. But anyway as long as you keep working on your main project will may take a while you should be fine. (Just remember that dude that kept working on his rpg game and finished it lol, the one with the article on dev-somethingorrather)

Cheers