The Dark Curse - New Game Idea

invas10n · Post by **invas10n** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:08 am

Hey guys.

I thought I'd just post a link here to my blog about a game I am in the process of creating. I know the screens on the blog dont look very impressive at the moment, but I am focusing on getting the engine running properly before I focus on the models, textures and graphics.

Would appreciate any comments, critisms or advice anyone is willing to give. I try to update the blog often. I am on IRC most of the time, so feel free to chat to me there about anything too

Here's the link: The Dark Curse Game

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:42 am

Nice, seems you've done a good amount of work so far, I really appreciate that.

Seems you're having trouble with getting a good gui design. I recommend using this. It's very customizable, just by changing some images in 5 minutes I was able to achieve a menu like this: http://irrlichtirc.g0dsoft.com/BlindSid ... screen.JPG

Also for a game like this with wide, flat outdoor spaces, a nice orthogonal projection shadow map would look good, you might want to look into that.

Good luck with this project.

invas10n · Post by **invas10n** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:50 am

Thanks BlindSide for your reply.

The skin you mentioned...i have seen it and it is quite nice but will see. The gui is far from complete. I will be designing custom buttom images to go over the buttons I have created so far.

As for the orthofonal projection shadow map, never heard of that before

Will do some research. Thankfully I havent spent too much time on the map so would be quick to implement something new.

FuzzYspo0N · Post by **FuzzYspo0N** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:49 am

Hey invasion.
Glad to see some more work on this, and as a matter of interest i was already processing some GUI stuff for you as well. Just keep going at a base and worry about the fluff later,

Looks good so far.
FuzzY

invas10n · Post by **invas10n** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:36 am

Ok,

So, i've re-defined the game idea. The RPG is in hold, and instead, Im going to be using what I have at the moment, but its going to be a FPS. That way, I can work on some things that can later be used in the RPG but at the same time, get a game out thats not as HUGE as what I had originally planned.

check out http://thedarkcurse.blogspot.com for more details.. will have a sourceforge website up soon. Still need to design it seeing as the project was just approved today

JP · Post by JP » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:40 am

Sounds like a sensible plan, good luck with it!