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[asa]

 :epileptic:Figured it's time to make a devlog here, this project started couple weeks ago from a consept mockup I made for "please say this is gonna be a game" thread.
I started learning Unity and created this game along the way. Game has changed quite a lot from the initial mockup consept during the development.

The first mockup picture.

First tests in unity:



More consepting:

first test based on the new consept:



Yesterday I created this simple and bit confusing manual thingy about the basic rules of the game:

The core/basic game play:

1. Three different enemy and ammo types.

2. Shoot things to get them flip, then see what’s under the saucer and shoot it with corresponding ammo.

3. Keep enemies away from the edge of zone 3 as long as you can, but eventually the game will get you, as enemy movements gets faster and their amount increases.

4. Get the best possible score before game over.

5. Increase your score by chaining up similar type of enemies and get combo multipliers. Shoot chained enemies with wrong ammo or let the timer run out the chain collapses and you have to start over.

And the latest video from yesterday as well:



There you go. I'm planning to get the first playable version done by next monday, will start adding new stuff(like special weapons, new effects etc.) once I get the basic gameplay running and tested.

I also have a personal blog that I'm updating few times a week. Lately it has been mostly about this fruit project: www.kaipaamo.fi/make3d

[Savick]

I'd like to know why you're shooting fruit or did I miss that part? The concept seems frustrating and difficult to keep up with for a shmup but then there's Ikaruga. Not sure if I would play it, but I was never really into shmups in the first place. I wish you luck.

[Franklin's Ghost]

Remember this from your original concept posts so will be following

[mcooley]

Wow, are you shooting fruit at death cookies?

I really like the look and action of that wormhole, and the way the player orbits around it.

The wormhole feels like a portal to hell. I half expect some horrible monsters to come crawling out of it that you have shoot and send back to their wormhole hell.

[asa]

Savick, Reason why you're shooting fruit is of course the fact that these three fruit type happen to be only thing in _this_ universe that can withhold the massive gravitational dis-ruptures of the blackhole. Why fruit molecules happen to be that way, well who knows, such is life.

Or it might have happened that the ship that was sent to destroy this out of worldly threat, traveled 1 billion years to this distant black hole, only to notice that someone forgot to pack the bullets! Luckily there's lots of leftovers from the intergalactic journey.

Or I just like idea of fruit ammo.

Game will be kinda slow based eventually, it only gets hectic towards the inevitable end. but yeah, I have no idea if this is going to work/or be any fun in practice, I should find out soon enough.

Mcooley, indeed, see that I put _these_ under the _this_ on my answer to Savick. These things are not from our dimension, cookies or not they're here to get ya!

Anyways, Got bit distracted and made some graphics instead of making the game work

Looks kinda nifty in movement, might do a video update later today.

[Qqwy]

Wow, the art looks amazing!

After watching your first test, I have a question tough. Will the final moving scheme of the ship be similar to what it's now? Because it doesn't really fit with the shape of the ship(streamlined airplane/fighter kind of ships normally fly forward really fast, and turn badly. In your test, the ship moves sideways around the circle)

[asa]

Qrwy, yes, a good point. I've planned to redo the ship at some point, probably sooner than later. I've been thinking making it more like a spider or somethingsomething Tempest inspired.

[asa]

Got the basic game working today!
New video:

[Franklin's Ghost]

Like your reasoning with the fruit This has come along so quickly. Have you used Unity before this project?

[asa]

Franklins Ghost: Not really, I've been an artist for one bigger project done in Unity in the past, but I never got to use Unity that much while working on that project. My secret weapon has been Playmaker, a visual scripting tool for Unity. I wouldn't be near as far in this project without it.

New stuff added:
Particles,
score display,
popup scores on the enemies


Here's the newest video:

[asa]

New stuff, Combo visualizer, new fruit types: red apple, banana and avocado now , minus points, new sound effects, playarea is bit more round and bit less polygonal now. and lots of other stuff I forgot allready.

I think I might have all the planned features in by next week.



Newest video:


And blog post for more details: http://www.kaipaamo.fi/make3d/grinding-in-progress/

[Franklin's Ghost]

What's the fruit count now?

[Birdorf]

Fruit ammo, love it.

[Eigen]

Man, I want a banana now.

[asa]

Franklins Ghost, still just three different fruit types. I had pineapple and orange for my two other fruit type, but people testing the game had some trouble telling them a part, so I replaced the two with red apple and avocado. Now it's much more easier to tell the difference between fruit types...

Basically one could replace "banana/red apple/avocado" with "yellow/red/green colored laserzz" and gameplay would be unaffected, but where's the fun in that?

[asa]

New video:



First test of leveling up:

Every level has randomly selected enemy type, destroy ten of them and the level grows. (to get higher score you would need to avoid killing them for as long as possible)

Level clears out and next level is initialized: next selected enemy type is randomized, enemy speed increases, spawn speed and flip stun time decreases.

Need to work on the visualization of the selected enemy type. Atm center are is way too busy.

[asa]

New stuff!
http://www.kaipaamo.fi/make3d/feature-creeps-and-new-ship/

New ship design
Ship leaves nice green slime/northern lights type of thing behind as it moves
More particles!
New Alarm system that tells how much damage a sector has taken. Skull for critical damage.
Loads of stuff under the hood.
New video:

[DustyDrake]

I was confused at first, thinking you had to prevent enemies from ENTERING the black hole.
It's a unique concept though.

Could you get lucky and hit an enemy with the fruit type they're weak to and score an instant-kill?

[Franklin's Ghost]

That new ship design looks great.

[asa]

Crafted a new main menu today, I think it fits quite nicely on my 80′s/90′s aesthetics goal!



And a video of the same thing:



I also did new game over sequence:



I'm steadily progressing towards feature complete