Mutant-Zombie Marble Madness^^

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:30 am

Well i finally decided on a game idea.

Story:
You are HumanMutant inside a big shield marble fighting hordes of zombies. either in single player or with your friends in co-op.
Since you are a mutant you will be able to use super human powers like force fields which stop your enemies or eletric shocks etc....

The Game actually evolved quite a bit in the technical aspect but not in terms of actual playability

Anyway i implemented a really simple Deathmatch gamemode. The game is playable over lan and inet. But keep in mind placeholder graphics and placeholder gameplay nothing finished this is still an alpha showing the tech.

Now some "spectacular" screens

Cloudf was so kind to record a video of us playing over inet(3 people in there) that is actually a little older version with some more bugs^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlGt_0KQpmM

and the download(win32 and ubuntu32):

Download
Download Mirror

So Controls:
Move: WSAD
Shoot1: left mouse
Shoot2: right mouse
Change gun: e
Show Score: tab
Delete the Player you are controling: r
Spawn a new player and control him: p

Skills:
Spikeball press 1 to activate
Jump press space

You can change the bindings in playersetup.xml

omaremad · Post by **omaremad** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 3:56 pm

thumbs up, check your pm

stefbuet · Post by **stefbuet** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 4:24 pm

Can u make it arrow keyed instead of WASD or just add arrow keys because I got an azerty keyboard and for me WASD isZQSD. Ty.
Good base, and I like your idea. Another marble game, damn I'm on a marble game too

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:55 pm

Look what I Found

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/522367
Edit: Tried it out, looks good for a mini demo

I was wondering what that black thing was and why it's rotation was a bit off from the mouse position... untill I pressed mouse button

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:32 am

This is nice. Everyone seems to do marble games

. We should add a new game genre, my Idea is "Roll Playing Game"

stefbuet wrote:Can u make it arrow keyed instead of WASD or just add arrow keys because I got an azerty keyboard and for me WASD isZQSD. Ty.
Good base, and I like your idea. Another marble game, damn I'm on a marble game too

I think it's always a good idea to have the controls changable by the user. That's why I created the "IrrConfigController" code snippet.

@Sudi: maybe you would like to integrate that? It's somewhere in the Code Snippets forum.

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:20 am

testing the good old flamethrower...i like my zombies medium

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stefbuet · Post by **stefbuet** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:19 pm

I don't know if sources are still availlable but here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-brLc8uUeQk @ 1:25 you got a particle affector to do the flamethrower with collisions response.

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:41 pm

Integrated network. and defined the protokoll. added LanBroadcast discovery and password protected servers.
And of course i updated the flamethrower.
In the final game i plan on having 3 weapon types. short range, mid range and long range.flamethrower is obviously short range.

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:58 pm

whoa, your developing it fast

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:12 pm

stopped coding the network for a moment and implemented the flamethrower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snYGEC4aSVA

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 5:18 am

Nice to see this developing. Are you using Irrnetlite for networking? How did you implement the LanBroadcast discovery? I didn't really try that, but I should for further games.

pera · Post by **pera** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:50 am

Seems like mixing marbles and mutant zombies was in the end inevitable.
You didn't seem like one who'd milk popular themes for glory. Do you really like marble or zombie games?

stefbuet · Post by **stefbuet** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:16 pm

You're not using your deferred renderer ?
Because your flamethrower particles are not soft (see wall contact)

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:45 pm

yeah you are actually right.....i wanted to go for gamemechnics before implementing nice graphics. but while we a at it...

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:06 am

Ok finally got my network system fully setup

Download

You can only move and shoot when you are server right now. Sry was hard enough^^

So Controls:
Move: WSAD
Shoot1: left mouse
Shoot2: right mouse
Change gun: e
Delete the Player you are controling: r
Spawn a new player and control him: p

The client currently only connects and mirrors the movement on the server without deadreckoning.