Coming Back Home (Beta 1)

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:26 pm

I am currently doing a mini game with Irrlicht. It's called "Coming Back Home".

(name) is a cute alien who are going back to its home planet. But hey, there are lots of asteroid on his pathway! (name) has to dodge those asteroid to reach his home safely!

p/s. I haven't think of the name of the alien yet.

Early screenshot...

Will need a lot of helps from you all.

Strong99 · Post by **Strong99** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:29 pm

looks nice

what you think of kri'al or charles as name?

and if you dodge astroids how does he die/lose?

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:57 pm

strong99 wrote:looks nice

what you think of kri'al or charles as name?

and if you dodge astroids how does he die/lose?

Name... I have no idea for now. But it must sound cute haha.

The number of asteroid will getting more and more so he can't just dodge it! When an asteroid hits the alien the ship will damage and when 100% damaged it will BOOM!

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:12 pm

It's a simple, clear concept, with an achievable execution. I like it.

With apologies to Michael Rennie (and Mathesar), how about "Klaatu" as a working-title name?

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:45 pm

How about "Noah" - its a name from the Jewish bible.

ThomasW · Post by **ThomasW** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:06 pm

Hey, the screenshot looks good! I like the planet.
I develop a similar game named DarkSkies.
Do you publish your source? Would be nice to share some ideas.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:47 am

ThomasW wrote:Hey, the screenshot looks good! I like the planet.

Thanks for the feedbacks. The planet is just a part of skybox which I made with Photoshop.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:56 am

MasterGod wrote:How about "Noah" - its a name from the Jewish bible.

Will I get cursed by someone for using this name on an alien?

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:51 pm

I'm sure no one will have any problems..

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:18 pm

Some updates:

I've used fly straight animators to make the potato-like asteroids to fly toward the alien. More to come.

dejai · Post by **dejai** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:18 am

How about Vengeance of Cuddles

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 3:41 pm

Updates:
- Position-based collision system works now.
- Added health point to the alien.

fmx · Post by **fmx** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:20 pm

seems to be coming along pretty well Virion!

*thumbs up*
nice simple concept, perfectly suited visuals and gameplay

maybe the health display sould be a bar or a dial or something graphic?
or is it just the position of it at the top of the screen like that which is putting me off?

but yeah, keep it up!
Hope to see you complete it soon (so we can try it out for ourselves

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btw, x-mas greets to y'all!

dlangdev · Post by **dlangdev** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:44 pm

it's coming along nicely

keep it up.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:32 pm

maybe the health display sould be a bar or a dial or something graphic?
or is it just the position of it at the top of the screen like that which is putting me off?

Thanks for the suggestion. I've made one:

Anyway, I've found one problem when I doing the health bar. See below:

Initially, there was a 1-pixel-width artifact appearing on screen when the health bar was rendered. But I've checked everything: I selected that part in photoshop and pressed delete buttons several times to ensure nothing was there. Then, I also checked the size of the bar image, which is 256x32, fulfilled the 2^n size requirement. I don't know if this has something to do with Irrlicht or...

Anyway I've solved the problem by adding a rect clip to hide that 1-pixel-width artifact.