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[owendeery]

Birds. Not sure what kind of birds fly that high while still staying as a flock. Or if those kinds of birds even exist. Oh well, that's what's awesome about making video games.

[ANtY]

Want to see them on video

[Conker534]

Agrees

[owendeery]

I'm showing it off at the local indie get together next week, so by then I'll probably have a new video up as well as something for people to download and run. It won't be a game yet, but you'll be able to fly around and shoot stuff and tell me if your computer will run it.

[James Edward Smith]

SHOW OFF!

Oh wait, that's the point of the show and tell...

Hey man, I'm that charismatic and handsome bald guy who was at gamejam talking to you guys a bit.

Game's looking pretty cool, man. I'm gonna try to have my game Pike & Shot some where playable so we can play that on Wednesday too; though I've been slacking since the weekend. Work's been draining and demoralizing lately. But we will persevere!

I'm interested in how simulaty your game is. Like, if and how much stuff like propeller affect your movement characteristics and such. I haven't seen much of your game yet, but I like it sort of looks like it's very algorithm determining behaviour of stuff style, like any good PC game should be! heh.

[owendeery]

One of the goals for the final game will be to make it very 'simulaty' if I may borrow your term. All the parts already have their own values for mass, durability, damage, etc. we're just not at the point of working on that part.

Look forward to seeing what you have to show off! 

[badsprite]

Loved what I saw tonight at the Show & Tell!

Can't wait for the build you promised
 

[Hangedman]

It was fun to watch in action, kind of like a Steampunky Captain Forever team game.

Keep at it!

[owendeery]

Hey everyone, I meant to post this after the Show and Tell on Thursday but I got really sick and am only recovering now.

So here it is, the first downloadable: http://www.owendeery.com/Welkinhold.rar

Like I mentioned, this doesn't have any true gameplay or win states in at the moment and there are still quite a few bugs and crashes. This is more to gauge performance, compatibility and see what people think of the general feel overall.

If you're having performance issues you can try hitting the 'B' or 'R' keys to toggle the bloom effect and god rays respectively.

Cheers!

[Core Xii]

Performance was smooth, though it crashed when I closed the window at the end.

[owendeery]

Performance was smooth, though it crashed when I closed the window at the end.

Thanks for the heads up, I'm assuming there was no message on crash?

[Core Xii]

Thanks for the heads up, I'm assuming there was no message on crash?

It just came up with the Windows "This program has done an illegal operation and has to be shut down" thingy.

[owendeery]

Just a quick update.

After being berated by a friend of mine for not making my editor more component based, I spent the past day and a half creating a Windows Forms type component based interface system.

While it's not a huge change visually, it will be useful when creating the control for manipulating navigation points which is next on my list.

Also I made a slider component which is way nicer for tweaking colors than input boxes. It also now lets me have virtually infinite levels of parallax instead of discrete steps.

I've put up a new build with the editor included, just the hit tilde (~) key when in gameplay mode to open it up. There are still sections of it not working, but it's functional for the most part if anyone is curious.

Download: http://www.owendeery.com/Welkinhold.rar

[ANtY]

So i played version from 20th and i couldn't flip horizontally parts in hangar (needed to place additional guns on the left side)

[owendeery]

So i played version from 20th and i couldn't flip horizontally parts in hangar (needed to place additional guns on the left side)

You can rotate all the parts 360 degrees (except mobility parts which are either up or down). You should be able to grab a gun mount, turn it to the desired orientation and then put it on the ship. Any weapon part should then slot onto it no matter what way it's rotated.

There's no flipping involved, unless I misunderstood.

[ANtY]

So, how to rotate it? :D

[owendeery]

So, how to rotate it? :D

Right-click while dragging. There's a little icon that pops up in the lower left to indicate it, but I guess I need to make it stand out more.

[owendeery]

Been very busy as of late with finishing school/finding job/finding apartment, but development is ongoing.

Switched over to a new scenemanager system recently which should help clean things up and give me better control over post-processing effects and the various framebuffers that go along with them.

In terms of eye-candy, I've added a method to rebuild destroyed rally points. It's similar to other games where a player needs to get in proximity of the rally point and wait for it to charge. To communicate this I made a slinky tube that flies out of the players ship and jacks into the rally point, filling it with fuel/energy. Once the point is rebuilt the hose will retract back into the players ship. It's hard to tell from the shot, but the tube itself is really bouncy and juicy looking.



Editor-wise I've got nav point controls up and running. You can now create rally point markers and attach them to any level object you want to act as a rally point. You can also assign a health value, priority (for a progressing chain of rally points), radius for the player to be in to rebuild the point, and what team it belongs to.

I like how whenever you switch the ship in the hangar it slaps you with a big grey wet noodle.

Me too, me too... (it's a feature)