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[Ozoh]

Design Document

Hi, Echo Squad is a collaboration project between me and Belimoth.

An old video.




Anyways, have some mockups:

New mockup of buildings.

A mockup of the class-select screen

Gameplay mockup2

gameplay mockup1


Programming - Belimoth
Art - Ozoh

[Belimoth]

Welcome, I'll be coding this.

Feature Timeline:
   I. Terrain/Scenery
   II. Level Editor
   III. Controls/Combat
   IV. Classes
   V. HUD
   VI. Vehicles
   VIII. Objectives
   IX. Menus
   X. Networking

[Ashkin]

I expect this to become the next Masjin.
Good luck

[Ozoh]

Hm. I found out that I like creating mockups with things I've recently done.

Still working on them, though.

[SundownKid]

I'm a big Battlefield fan, so if you need help with the interface, design, sound effects or whatever, I would be willing. This looks great!

[Ozoh]

Yesterday, I worked on animations.

-Completely re-created walking and running animations
-Made a 'jump' sprite
-Created an animation for bullet hit.

[Belimoth]

I've added a timeline to my first post to keep me honest.

[Belimoth]

Made a video of the 'collision' system I'm using in this game.





It is not much to look at, but it is flexible and I am proud of it.

It doesn't check for collisions after they happen, it calculates how far an object can move in every direction and doesn't let them move any farther than that. Common sense, really. The red/green/yellow rectangles that show up when the video gets colorful illustrate the mechanics of it.

The only problems with it are that it is only rectangles-on-rectangles, and fast diagonal movement can get sketchy near corners. The latter, at least, is easy to deal with on a case-by-case basis.

[Belimoth]

What's that? You want a video of the actual game? I think we can work something out.

[Ashkin]

I like that video. It is nice.
I do hope that is a machine gun, though. It's an awful lot of bullets.

[Belimoth]

I like that video. It is nice.
I do hope that is a machine gun, though. It's an awful lot of bullets.

I am skipping steps to be even working on the bullets at this point. Magazine size will probably definitely be considered as a feature maybe.

The gun was set at full-auto in the video for illustrative purposes, but if you look very closely I believe it is in fact a machine gun.

[Belimoth]

This project is dead AFAIK so here is the best build.

Here is the most current build.

What It's Got:
   -SFXR sound effects.
   -Mentally-challenged bots.
   -Levels, classes, etc loading from XML files.
   -Level editor with incomplete support for props (see if you can guess the secret tree key).
   -A special block to test ladders/monkey-bars.
   -Actual ammo system.
   -Some sort of message system.
   -Throwable kits (that don't do anything).
   -Super nice platforming and controls.
   -Super buggy collisions between bullets and moving players and an unregulated timestep.

Bonus diagram of how jet combat could possibly work:

[Franklin's Ghost]

Sucks to hear. Hadn't seen this project before but it looked promising.

[Ozoh]

Um... Hi.
So we decided to pick this project back up.

5/10/12
-I completed medic's moving animations. Now he has both running and aiming sprites for both M60 and M9. I also created an appropriate HUD for his weapons (the current one is assault's).



-Thenn... Oh right, I also created moving sprites for Assault. Not for secondary weapon yet, though.

-I also noticed that the tree sprite looked horrible and reworked it. More to come.


-The MedKit now looks more readable.




Everything's now sent to Belimoth.


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[Ozoh]

5/13/12

Trees, trees, trees.
And other scenery (Stones and tall grass)

[Ozoh]

5/14/12
I finally made a proper design document. I added a link to it to the OP.

[DustyDrake]

Very nice Ozoh.
Hope to see good things from this.

[Ozoh]

5/22/12
-Finished the animations for assault class
-New background image, might need clouds though.


Yeah, sorry for the lack of updates ... school and exams, you know.

[Belimoth]

Hmm, not sure how to clearly distinguish teams without turning this into a race war.

Ideas: Colored arrows above the players' heads, colored outlines, tinted outfits, tinted bullets.

Forums, help me think of a solution that doesn't require poor Ozoh to make twice as many sprites.

[Ashkin]

No way to distinguish between teams- makes it more realistic/interesting.