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[Chris Pavia]

Thanks for the kind words all

[Chris Pavia]

I hate writing asset lists. You don't realize how much work you still have to do until you write it all down! I hope I can find a decent animator when I'm done with all the characters. 

[Chris Pavia]

I updated the first post with a more detailed breakdown of my progress with the game.

[Chris Pavia]

Here's the main menu art. The badly-beveled design elements on the sides are placeholder.

[Chris Pavia]

As an xmas gift for my wife, I've redesigned the female character in her likeness. Say hello to TeLina the Archer!



If anyone is interested, the fighter's name is Brand, the Healer is August, and I haven't decided on a name for the mage yet.

[Nuprahtor]

A Giant Rat appeared! No textures yet.

Even without textures this Gian Rat looks awesome.
I like your style

[Chris Pavia]

Thanks

[Chris Pavia]

Here are a couple environment shots (all art is placeholder):






I am currently using 2 algorithms for the level generation. One creates dungeon type levels broken up into rooms and corridors, and the other creates more random cave type levels.

Currently each level has an entry, exit, and chest containing a key to the exit. I will probably add more doors/keys to each level to make them more interesting to navigate. I've considered adding traps, but I want to keep the roguelike elements very light. Can anyone recommend a game with a simple trap system that allows the player to see them coming and somehow disarm/avoid them? The interactions would have to be very simple.

[Doktor_Q]

Looking very pretty!

One interesting kind of traps would be the ones in ClaDun. Not really the same genre, but it might give you some ideas.

[BomberTREE]

Wow the dungeon reminds me of Link to the past, but with an awesome 3d remix,
guessing that you use blender or 3DS MAX? anyways,
great update, keep em coming!
 

[Chris Pavia]

That ClaDun game looks pretty awesome!  Is it out yet?

Spider time!



Still got some details to work out on him, but he's pretty much complete. He's the last character in need of modeling, so now I'll focus on texturing.

[Doktor_Q]

I think it's been out for a while, actually. Unless my friends are playing Japanese imports or ROMs.

Which is not entirely unfeasible.

Anyway, that spider is awesome. I'm really looking forward to playing this.

[Chris Pavia]

Cool, I'll have to track it down. Maybe when I get some characters textured and animated I can put out a demo of just the battle portion so I can get some feedback on it.

[funfactotum]

Hey, i like your low poly technique very much! It seems pretty efficient! What is your averagy poly/tris count per character?

[Alec S.]

This is looking pretty nice!  And the combat system sounds interesting.  Looking forward to it.

[Chris Pavia]

Hey, i like your low poly technique very much! It seems pretty efficient! What is your averagy poly/tris count per character?

For the most part they are between 1500 and 2k triangles. I could probably go higher since there won't be more than 5 characters on screen at once, but my content creation time would also go up considerably.


As for a progress update if anyone is interested, I've been unwrapping all the characters in preparation for texturing, which doesn't make for exciting screenshots. Only one more to go! Luckily I have next week off of work, so I'm hoping to have the four party members textured by the end of it (depending on how much time I have to spend with the fam).

[funfactotum]

Hey Chris, i know what you feel   .  UW unwrapping is such painful but very important part especially in low poly game models! I am too off work for a 10 days, but still family duty and pleasure calls! It is hard to have a family and job, and in the same time to be a creative common!  

[Chris Pavia]

I know what you mean, my wife wants to start trying for a kid in 2011. I'm scared of what will happen to my free time!

As for unwrapping, using a pelt-like unwrapper (like UVLayout or Roadkill) makes things go much faster.

[funfactotum]

I am pretty happy with Blender UV unwrapping capabilities, it has sove very powerful tools to do that. I do not beleive in any kind of automatic UV unwrapping - when games low poly models considered!

Kids are great joy and really enrich one's life to maximum (i have three - all boys!). Though it can be painful and time consuming, later they can help you with games - be sure in that

[Chris Pavia]

very minor update, I forgot to post a pic of Brand the Fighter's Sword: