Hey! Im really excited at the moment, Penguinz has been coming on amazingly well in the last few weeks, I really think this game is going to be by far the best thing ive ever ever done. LongAnimals is fucking brilliant and can do pretty much anything I ask, this game is going to be be a lot better because of him!
We currently have all the enemies, levels and weapons in. Most of the work left to do is on the shop, balancing gameplay and lots of little effects and cool things... cant wait to see it all working properly!
The game should be finished in a few weeks... Ill be making a front page post closer to release with a trailer and probably be looking for some beta testers to iron out the bugs, so keep a look out for it... Its a big game and theres loads of little things that need to be tweaked :)
Ive also been working on an engine for another game... Yup, im throwing down the pen (well, not quite...) and coding a game! This is for a group uni project, chances are ill be doing all the art too though :) Its going to be really useful to get some actionscript skills and ive already put together a pretty neat little platformer engine! Hopefully you should start seeing some games fully coded and animated by me by the end of the year, as well as this game in a few months!
The basic idea behind the game is the player has the power to change from dream to nightmare. Gameplay will work similarly to the shift series, the single gameplay element and level design commanding the whole experience. You have to work your way through the dreams and nightmares of a coma patient, exploring his brain to finally wake him up.
Different parts of the brain will set the themes for each section, so for example the sensory section has a level based around sound, another around visual etc...
its a pretty exciting concept and Im really happy with the idea. It also gives me a change to do some awesome morphing transform animations which im looking forward to!
Try out a tech demo, my first game engine!link
arrows to move/jump
space to toggle dream/nightmare
commments pleeeease! I wish I could show more of penguinz!
AdamJack
The long awaited penguinz game! really looking forward to it. The dream game sounds like a great idea. I tried the demo. I don't know why but took me forever to figure out how to grab that star.
Jimp
Haha, its awesome at least SOMEONES looking forward to it :)
Yeah it should hopefully turn out pretty well, we have lots of good ideas for levels and things. Hopefully I can work the coding out properly for it all to work well :P
Yeah this was only a test level really to play around with the engine on, its definately made it clear we need to be more obvious about level design ( most people dont stand on the higher edge bits on the towers).
Cheers for the comment man :)