Puzzle Moppet (source released)

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:56 am

I've no idea about that screenshot... there isn't anything in the logfile? I suppose probably not for an odd graphical glitch like that..

I'll add a homepage link or something to the site. Thanks

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:57 am

Oh, if anyone would like to test the full version, please PM me and I will give you a secret download link. Hopefully you can also give some feedback on the difficulty curve =)

I'm still not 100% finished on this though, I'm going at add at least a simple title screen + menu.

fmx · Post by **fmx** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:41 pm

PM sent

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:47 am

Now has a basic menu system, with level select:

http://garnetgames.com/puzzlemoppet/

Todo next: maybe some music on the title screen? I'm not sure though, I quite like just the wind sound...

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:15 pm

A small update... Now has:

- tutorial across the first few levels
- undo function! (also saves just before you fall off the world)
- level ratings (can you get a "Perfect" score hmm?)
- other minor things

PuzzleMoppetTrial.exe

PuzzleMoppetTrial.tar.gz

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:05 pm

Hm, Your levels look like what I would want in my game. what did you use to make/texture your assets(like the ground block). Any shaders used to give them a nicer look?

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:05 am

Hm, Your levels look like what I would want in my game. what did you use to make/texture your assets(like the ground block). Any shaders used to give them a nicer look?

Blocks are just simple unit cubes, but with curved overhanging sides. The overhang extends beyond the unit cube, but curves downwards, so when placed next to each other the blocks tile nicely:

Texturing was quite tricky... each surface is just textured 0-1 so they tile nicely. Then I apply a scale to the texture matrix of each surface to make the texture sizes appear greater (so less repetition, repeats every 3 blocks). Recently I changed that to remove need for texture matrices, now the entire ground blocks are combined into a single mesh + the UVs are scaled instead of using texture matrices.

Without this the repetition is quite obvious + ugly:

Shaders are:
- Hemisphere shader for lighting (see projects/Puzzle/media/shaders). this interpolates between a darker colour underneath objects to a lighter yellowy sun colour above. I also multiply the resulting pixel colour by a set amount to brighten the scene a little.

- a noise texture then applied on top of everything, at a large scale, and slowly scrolls across, to simulate the shadow of clouds. It's quite subtle, I think it's more noticeable in motion:

- texturing...

- small amount of bloom... makes bright patches brighter and larger...

omaremad · Post by **omaremad** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:59 pm

Sorry i missed this great game

Really fun with lots of polish!

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:14 pm

Thanks

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:28 pm

Now has the much requested grid based movement:

The glyph thing on the ground shows the possible directions of movement (with the larger arrow indicating forwards). This hopefully helps make it obvious which grid direction you'll move along... since e.g. at angles near 45 degrees it's not obvious whether you should move up or right.

It can be enabled/disabled via an options menu. I'm not entirely sure whether I should enable this by default though!? Anyone have thoughts on this??

--> I'm now getting very near what I shall consider "complete"...

ChaiRuiPeng · Post by **ChaiRuiPeng** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:26 pm

congratulations on getting so far

it's nice to see people accomplishing nice looking polished end products

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Mon May 02, 2011 10:54 pm

Thanks

Now have some kind of "looking-into-the-sun" effect (don't know the proper word for that)... The entire sky box is brightened by a great amount when you look directly into the sun to give a kind of glare. Also a scrolling noise texture added to the skybox to simulate moving clouds above and below.

Also I've changed the wind loop to one that is less repetitive...

Well, if you're lucky this will be my last update

(Famous last words). If anyone has any final thoughts before I go "gold"...

PuzzleMoppetTrial.exe

PuzzleMoppetTrial.tar.gz

Lonesome Ducky · Post by **Lonesome Ducky** » Sat May 21, 2011 1:47 am

I don't know if you saw this, but the yogscast reviewed your trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb2WD3ml ... ideo_title

ChaiRuiPeng · Post by **ChaiRuiPeng** » Sat May 21, 2011 3:06 am

Lonesome Ducky wrote:I don't know if you saw this, but the yogscast reviewed your trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb2WD3ml ... ideo_title

congratulations on the net-press coverage xDan

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Sat May 21, 2011 12:28 pm

Ahahahaha

Yes, I did see that...

Sold 4 copies so far :S Only several thousand more to go...