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321	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Early Access]	on: May 30, 2016, 01:49:56 PM
Meh, needs more explosions... Better. New build uploaded to the beta branch: http://steamcommunity.com/games/395550/announcements/detail/611741000281301065

322	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Early Access]	on: May 28, 2016, 09:16:25 AM
Here's a quick demo of the new crate behaviour in build 1.3.2, which is now live on Steam (two-stage destruction, bigger explosions, plus they now interact with grenades and rockets!)

323	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Early Access]	on: May 25, 2016, 04:40:54 PM
Well, it's been a busy few weeks since I got back from the conference. Some of the highlights: released 1.2, which includes most notably: rendering optimizations, a new intro/tutorial level, destructible blocks in several of the levels, and bigger explosions released a follow-up patch (1.3.1) that fixed several bugs sent a batch of preview/press keys via dodistribute.com (hoping to see a bit of activity in the next few days) I've also got 1.3.2 just about ready to go, which will include, at the very least: even more bug fixes destructible crates (previously, they were one-shot), with bigger explosions! more "destruction" to the intro/tutorial level, as well as some background ambience (creaking/cracking and whatnot) And finally, I just realized that neither Ricardo or I shared this awesome piece! We've used these not only for the intro cinematic and the coop player select screen, but we also had t-shirts printed

324	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Early Access]	on: April 30, 2016, 07:10:49 AM
Made the trek up to Ottawa, Ontario (14 hour drive) this past weekend for the OIGC's Game & Art Expo. Although the conference has been going for a few years now, this was their first time doing an expo like this. It was great to see so many other indie devs pursuing their dreams! Here's a shot of our humble little setup: Approximately 2600 people through the doors, and non-stop traffic at our booth. All in all, I would say it was a huge success and worth the 28 hours of driving

325	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Early Access]	on: March 31, 2016, 07:49:50 AM
Beefing up the dynamic lighting in the new tutorial level:

326	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Early Access]	on: March 25, 2016, 11:15:58 AM
Just uploaded a new trailer showing some of the """game feel""" stuff we've been working on lately (sorry for stealing all your trade secrets, Vlambeer), such as: faster bullets more bullets more screen-shake weapon recoil muzzle flash knock-back (or, in the words of one of my friends, "blow-back", hehe) more enemies, and therefore more blood, and guts Everything you see in the video is live on Steam now. This coincides with our first official Steam "update round", which will hopefully help to generate some more sales and wishlists. All in all, a very productive few weeks. We also have some pretty exciting stuff in the works, which I will share shortly!

327	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: February 29, 2016, 03:41:20 PM
Testing out some "game feel" stuff (thanks, !): I previously wrote this kind of stuff off as polish/"I'll do it later", but I now realize that it can be just as important things like the fundamental gameplay mechanics. I mean, you're basically doing the same action over and over, it should probably "feel" good. So to that end: increased screen-shake added knock-back for enemies added recoil for player added muzzle flash increased player bullet speed Plus a couple more drastic things: doubled all enemy HP doubled rate of fire for all weapons Still some work to do--mostly fixing bugs/glitches that I introduced as a result of these changes--but overall I think it's a big improvement. In other news, we've decided to release the game in Early Access, for a few reasons. [official announcements are here (website) and here (Steam)] The main one being that we've come to realize there are some things we'll really only get one shot at; one of which is the level designs. As our self-imposed launch date drew near, there was still so much more tuning that we wanted to do to the levels. We felt that Early Access would give us an opportunity to try the current designs out on a larger audience, and iterate over them for a period of time before. Secondarily, we had hoped to have a reasonably sized community by the time we launched, but unfortunately that's not the case. We hope that Early Access will start to generate some momentum and ultimately enable us to have a more impactful "full release". If all goes to plan we'll be in live in Early Access this week!

328	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: February 13, 2016, 08:06:48 AM
Started working on a game over screen... with blood, and glitchiness, of course In other news, we've setup a Tumblr. I don't know that it's common to setup a Tumblr for a game (my wife says only kids use it...?), but it seems like the perfect platform for hosting lots of different media types in one place.

329	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: February 11, 2016, 09:50:48 AM
Well, the soundtrack has been sent off for mastering... it's the final asset to be integrated before we start sending out review copies! And we're down to only a handful of bugs, none of which are game-breaking, so we're looking pretty good for an early March release date. Fingers crossed! A shout out goes to Denis at Mastering.lt for doing the mastering job, he does great work! He's done the mastering for most of Snug's releases. Here's a preview of what you can expect from the soundtrack. We'll post a few full tracks in the days to come, as we start getting the mastered versions back.

330	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: January 29, 2016, 01:52:41 PM
Busy few weeks, mostly focused on bug fixing and testing, wrapping up the intro and ending cinematics (Ricardo, post some more shots ...), and some nit-picky design stuff (i.e. moving some platforms to make for some smoother platforming segments, tweaking enemy patterns, etc.) We're planning on releasing the OST at the same time as the game, so that means I need to consider how every track will be integrate in the game vs. how it will be used in the OST. So for example, some tracks will need to be cut into separate intro and looping segments for integration into the game, some tracks will need to be looped and faded in/out for the OST, etc. The OST has somehow grown to 18 tracks, so it was a bit of work to keep track of all of this... Releasing the OST also means we're going to need to send the music for mastering soon, so I'll be spending some time over the weekend rendering the current versions of the tracks for initial feedback from the mastering engineer, and then making any tweaks to the mixes next week. Also gotta do the voice over for the ending cinematic this weekend (preferably at a time when my wife isn't home to hear me embarrass myself)... and then of course more bug fixing...

331	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: December 31, 2015, 07:11:56 AM
Phew, long couple of days but the new trailer video is done and the Steam store page is now live!

332	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: December 29, 2015, 05:45:32 PM
Pulling a fresh batch of video and screenshots as we ramp up to put the Steam page live. Here's a little taste of what you can expect

334	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: December 21, 2015, 09:51:01 AM
So I'm off work (my day job, that is) for 2 full weeks for Christmas/New Year's/etc. and hoping to make a huge dent in the backlog and bug list. It may be a tad ambitious, but by the end of the year we plan to have: new trailer video and new round of screen shots new streamlined website live Steam page live (albeit in "coming soon" state) We can then focus on driving traffic to the Steam page (to follow/wishlist), while in parallel tying up loose ends in preparation for launch. To get ready for the new trailer and screenshots I'm focused pretty much exclusively on "visual" bugs: weird enemy behaviour, sorting layer issues, camera issues, etc. I've got my work cut out for me: there's a good 40+ right now! In other news, Ricardo and I met a couple days ago to nail down the initial launch feature set. We've agreed to cut back scope a bit to order release in a reasonable time-frame. Specifically, we're going to drop death-match, and one of the extra game modes we had planned to include ("1987", an ode to one of the greats). Sucks to have to drop stuff, but we're already a bit behind (our self-imposed) schedule. There's so, so much stuff we want to do, but we can't lose sight of the fact that it's just "v1", and we can always add more through free updates. On that note, some possible future, post-launch enhancements: "challenge" mode (shorter, harder levels, a la Super Meat Boy, VVVVVV, etc.) boss rush mode special character abilities/attributes (right now the only differences are cosmetic) more weapons and weapon upgrades, unlocked by beating the game more achievements

335	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: December 02, 2015, 09:04:07 AM
So I made the mistake of upgrading from a (relatively) stable version of Unity (5.2.2) in an attempt to reduce some occasional editor crashes I was encountering. As a result, I ended up running into a fundamental 2D physics bug (in 5.2.3f1) that required yet another upgrade to get onto the latest patch (5.2.3p1): Quote (742572) - Physics: Ensure that OnCollisionEnter2D is always called if a contact starts and ends during a single physics update. Also looks like some other 2D physics behaviour changed: previously a rigidbody collider would trigger a dynamic trigger collider without a rigidbody. Looks like this is no longer the case. Had to track down all occurrences of this and add a kinematic rigibody to the trigger colliders. Lesson learned... sometimes you gotta deal with the odd editor crash in the interest of not breaking your game!

336	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: November 23, 2015, 09:36:20 AM
Quote from: BlackseaOdyssey on November 23, 2015, 08:53:51 AM Reminds me of Broforce! Love retro action games! The sad truth is that I've never actually played BroForce... definitely gotta fix that soon!

337	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: November 23, 2015, 08:13:49 AM
Insanely productive weekend, motivation level was super high... completed mocking up intro cinematic, still a ways to go but all the transitions are now there. Also gave me an excuse to finally play around with Unity 5's audio mixer. voice acting for intro cinematic added controller rumble when rockets/grenades explode, and when player dies added screen-shake effect when rockets/grenades explode added some audio silliness to the stats screen, depending on badass rank (ranging from cheers, to booing, to an indifferent "hmmm") added fireworks to stats screen (for badass rank 3, the highest badass rank) background music for act intro/transition screen added SFX for alien troopers (one of the main enemies in the game, which were previously totally silent) improved lighting for all darker levels (some were a tad too dark) Phew

338	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: November 19, 2015, 01:11:54 PM
So as part of our marketing and promotion strategy, as well as in the interest of polishing the game further, Ricardo and I are building a (proper) intro cinematic. It'll be used not only by the game, but also as the start of the new and improved trailer. Here's the first scene we're working on... sphere rendered off-screen, with a couple low-res point-filtered texture (one for earth, one for cloud cover) off-screen camera rendered to a point-filtered Unity "render texture" render texture applied to a plane, and scaled up for pixelated goodness Meta-lo-fi! P.S. the Steam store page has been approved, so as soon as we get some new screenshots and the new trailer it'll be marked as "Coming soon" and we can finally work towards getting folks to wishlist/follow it![/list]

339	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: November 19, 2015, 01:05:11 PM
Quote from: Keops on November 04, 2015, 05:16:52 PM Dude, I wanna see those pixels...

340	Community / DevLogs / Re: Operation Hardcore - 2D side-scrolling shooter [Greenlit]	on: November 13, 2015, 09:02:14 AM
I always found the the badass's heads a little too static... made them look kind of goofy, i.e. not even looking where they're aiming So today I took at stab at rotating the heads dynamically based on where they're aiming. It's currently clamped to +/- 15 deg, which I think looks pretty natural: Oh, and I also finally got around to fixing the "moonwalk" issue (walking animation was being played in the same direction regardless of movement direction!) Now I just gotta animate the "head bob" that was previously baked into the sprite sheets, and let Ricardo clean up the mess I made by ripping the head out of the sprite sheets

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