What are you working on? (Game Making Thread)

[Xilef]

So I'm trying to make a diagram of my desired engine architecture, I'll write up an article about it when I'm done, but it's quite a difficult task. I find that planning as a whole, while quite essential to actually getting shit done, is a rather long, difficult and unrewarding job

 

[benos]

Dreamwalker again. Academy Adventures.

 

[Byron]

Lighting....

SOOO CLOSE T^T
Eventually I'll get it to flicker like a candle...
But first I need it to align with the thing
SOO CLOSE!!!!

 

[rosse119]

thats very impressive lighting, how did you make that effect?

 

[Xilef]

That clock being directly behind a chair that is up against the wall makes no sense

 

[DJ]

My internet was cut, since the fiber cable was cut in the middle. It sucks to spend a day without internet.

I worked in 3D to make a list of ammunitions appear / or will be appearing in my game.
Whoop :

 

[Sauk]

Trying to figure out if it's possible to make a TPB game to work on for shits and giggles since there really is no story-line to the show; I WAS refining a lot of the concepts for one of my projects, however, I keep thinking way out of my capabilities and just end up with 200000 different projects.

With that I just thought of the basic concept and will be looking for an artist to sprite for me.

 

[Sauk]

I give up.



Gah fuck it; Finna make a paypal account and get someone else to do this for me.

 

[moog]

what why, thats actually a pretty cool style imo

 

[Sauk]

I just feel like the bodies are well too small for the heads like RTP and I am poor with shading.

I tried animating one for the first time and it isn't too bad I guess; I'll see where it takes me.

 

[Xilef]

Woo-hoo! Replaced the Lua scripting system in Battle World with AngelScript, making everything like 200x easier (AngelScript is in C++, Lua is in C, so AngelScript makes hooking everything up pretty easy).

To tie it all up, I've made a scripting class that starts up an AngelScript engine, registers your functions and calls Angel Script functions. It also loads byte code and compiles source code, very snazzy.

My call angel script method has the following two features that make it awesome:

• Variable arguments - So the call syntax is scriptEngine->CallScriptFunction( "void FunctionName( int, int, int, int )", all, my, arguments, here );
• Returns a pointer to the result - So I can do int two = *( int * )scriptEngine->CallScriptFunction( "int GetTwo()" );

The big downside is that it uses the standard library string as it's string type, angelscript considers character pointers too dangerous (Don't blame it) so doesn't use them. Oh well.

So now I've finished a scripting class, a multi-threading class, and a UDP packet sending/receiving class.

I am now working on a todo list for engine components. Good planning always helps.

 

[DJ]

I captured bunch of scenes from my project's testmap.

Spoiler: 1. Automatic Weapons Testing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UD4zBK9lw4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKUX9U3pmk4

2. Gas Weapons Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVjKH7TmFxY

3. Co-ordinate Based Fire Support
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ZnryL3b2I

4. Sword vs Guns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9ASFi57thA

Spoiler: Extras

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlyLWh08Or0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0vNVJQ5n98

 

[Xilef]

Made a nifty system that will automatically chunk up sections of the 3D maps into branch-nodes if a sector is completely inside another sector, this gives a small speedup of around 200 FPS in highly detailed maps (I say small speedup as that's 200 FPS against a scene that's already at 3400 FPS ).

 

[DJ]

Just_fixed_my_laptop's_booting_problem.stupidsamsung

Due to lots o' reasons I use high-end laptop to work on games.

But recently it had boot problems, which is the laptop shuts down unnormally and boots again (everything goes fine then).
Simple problem, but can damage my HDD if not treated. So I brought my laptop to the SAMSUNG SVC Center, where i bought it.
After talking about everything wrong with my laptop, engineer showed up and said even he don't know what's wrong with my laptop
since this is the first time he saw this kind of defection. He recommended me to back up all the data since he can reset everything up.
And he said it will take 2~3 days to examine the PC. This means repairing the PC tooks more.

So...I brought it home and with doubt, i searched google for solutions and find out it is related with broken MBR, which means booting files
for windows is broken. I also find out several ways to repair MBR.

After few cmd.exe typing and rebooting,
I fixed it. Now who is the engineer?

And this means I can proceed again with my project! YAY LOL

 

[DJ]

I RELEASED ORIGINAL KOREAN DEMO VERSION OF MY PROJECT.
I AM STARTING THE TRANSLATION NOW.

 

[Jason]

Decided yesterday to look into having an animated titlescreen, nothing too fancy, but we'll see I suppose...

 

[Sauk]

(The above image is clickable)

Got some of the character bios complete and the basic plot + features thought up; Just need to write a more concrete story now and add more features to really make it a great homage to my favourite show.

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

Balancing the battle system.

*sigh*

This will suck. ;_;

 

[coyotecraft]

You can make a test map and make a chain event with all encounters. With options to go on to the next fight, redo the current one, or rest in between. So it's one long marathon. It'll give you a good sense of how many random encounters an area should have and what level the character should be.

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

Wow, that would be totally awesome! I might do that!

Also, I caved in and created a Tumblr blog for MM!

http://mercenarymaidendev.tumblr.com/