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[primaerfunktion]

Hey!

RK3000 is a city destruction game inspired by Godzilla and Megazords. Two of the key freatures are local multiplayer (up to four players) and a mapeditor.

Here's a video mostly showcasing the mapeditor and the workflow of building a map and jumping into the actual game:


And one more gif of some multiplayer action. (15MB)


You can find some more over here: http://primaerfunktion.de/rk3000/

And if you're interested in more frequent updates follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/primaerfunktion

Looking forward to put this project together and talking to you guys about it!

[rj]

reminds me a lot of omegalodon (which it would, since i was involved in that game's production and it's similarly a beat-up-the-city thing) but this honestly looks prettier and more polished overall

i'm loving the colors

[primaerfunktion]

Thanks a a lot!

I was researching if there were similar games and didn't encounter Omegaladon then. Looks really interesting especially the way you guys handled multiplayer.

[Cranky]

This looks pretty fun to play, very promising
Posting to follow

[migrafael]

This is looking good. I wish I knew how to get those nice pastel colors on 3d models. I'm really lazy when it comes to 3d cause of the UVs But I really love low poly stuff.

Smashing cities is a great premise for any game :D

[YellowAfterlife]

This looks very nice, love the flat shaded visuals and motion.
Are there going to be objectives/missions, or just sandbox-ish destruction on custom maps?

[Muzz]

The mech commander perspective is something that deserves to be revived.


This is amazing :D!

[andy201]

It reminds me of this:

[primaerfunktion]

First of tall: Thanks guys! And Godzilla vs. Megaguirus is actually running here on german tv right now.

I'm really lazy when it comes to 3d cause of the UVs But I really love low poly stuff.

Jeah, I'm really not into UV stuff either. That's why I make them really sloppy and drag them around on a palette texture. There's a gif and a small discussion about the technique over here: https://twitter.com/primaerfunktion/status/509766389562085376

Are there going to be objectives/missions, or just sandbox-ish destruction on custom maps?

That's something I have yet to figure out.

So enemies like police cars, tanks and others spawn at their specific special buildings. Police cars at police stations, tanks at a military base, helicopters at another military base. What I'm thinking to do right now is to make the default game mode of the costum maps to be something like "destroy all the special buildings". I'll probably also make a small campaign where you start off with smaller towns and in the end there will be one huge city to destroy with stronger enemy types or something. I'm really not sure about that. These would all be playable in co-op too.

[Bobert]

the color palette and lighting are gorgeous, and of course any game with mech fights is going to pique my interest

[JackMenhorn]

I agree with Bobert that the palette looks fantastic!  Everything about this game looks adorable.

[primaerfunktion]

Thanks! Lets get to Tanks now! 


(Looks like the physics need some work.)

Two enemy types are in the game now. Police cars and tanks. Police cars are fast and shoot a lot of not so damaging fast bullets. Tanks are slow and shoot fewer more damaging slow bullets. Also fewer tanks get spawned.

Right now every enemy production building has it's own fixed timer and produces every x seconds an enemy. Which is kinda stupid. What I'll do is create a city hall building, which handles where to spawn enemies. Like the next closest enemy production building to the player would be a lot smarter. If that city hall get's destroyed, they will spawn at dumber positions but more often. 

I'm not sure if people actually use that site but I made a IndieDB page anyway. So you can click on it or whatever.

[Sik]

(Looks like the physics need some work.)

Eh, just halve the horizontal speed of the tanks when they bounce.

[DangerMomentum]

This looks awesome. The world needs more good local multiplayer games. Following this for sure.

[Kyle O]

Looks like mech-commander but with beautiful pastels.

[primaerfunktion]

Some people said that it looks like the game was filmed from a helicopter. And you know what? I like that idea. So I put one right behind the camera and if you are positioned correctly you can see a shadow of it on the ground.

It's in the lower right:

[Sik]

I wonder if that could end up being confusing (e.g. players will start looking for a helicopter without realizing it's their own shadow).

[primaerfunktion]

True. But I could also make a small "intro" before the game starts giving an overview of the map using that helicopter. So being with that helicopter from the start on should work out.

[nt]

The helicopter shadow is a nice touch! This looks awesome

You know, having a simple model (low profile) of the destroyed building would be nice. If you destroy building you can't really tell where it use to stand before you know? like just a simple thing that stay at the same place then make it visible while the original is being destroyed. Or maybe just a totally flat texture of the foundations?

Just an idea...

[primaerfunktion]

Jeah, you're completely right. That's something I haven't touched at all yet. There sure will be visible destruction along your path. It would be really disappointing otherwise if you get back to place you have destroyed just to find nothing at all.

But thanks for bringing that up, as I think I should work on this rather sooner than later.