Been working on this for some time now, since the 12th of march, so about 1½ months now. I'm using Blitzmax, and I'm pretty much a beginner to programming, so go easy on me
As you can guess, it's ongoing work. I've set myself a mechanics deadline of 3 months, so I've only got 1½ months left. 2 months for graphics, leveldesign, sound. Music will probably be outsourced as I can't really do that myself.
I've made one game before this one, but I never finished it. I grew tired I guess. I doubt that's going to happen with this one though, I'm lovin' it!
The graphics look like utter crap, I know. Consider them placeholders. I don't see a reason to spend a lot of time on graphics until I have a working game, same goes for sound and music.
When I say "clone", I mean that's it's not a clone in the exact meaning of the word. It will be better than Bomberman, with more features, online play, online scores and such. I'm currently working on the UDP networking part, and I'm about to start on getting the powerups to work.
I wrote the UDP client/server from scratch to get to know the mechanics and whatnot since it interests me. For those of you unfamiliar with Blitzmax, it does provide networking libraries you can use. It's the latest offspring of Blitzbasic developed by Marc Tiffany, and it's object oriented and multiplatform. You can find more info on blitzmax.com if it interests you. What I like about it, is that I don't have to worry too much on technical aspects that don't interest me, for instance opening a graphics window. You can just dig in and get started on your game mechanics right away. I love that.
Anyway, sorry, a bit longwinded.. But like I said above, go easy on me, I'm a newbie
Here's some content to stare at
Player sprite, at startup the game makes various colours for other players based on Hue to save some space.
Early version of the timeattack mode, implemented scrolling because of it:
Not-at-all-completed ingame editor:
Screen of a test app I made to test how UDP was. Clients could control their own dot around with their chat text attached. It was actually pretty entertaining for such a simple program, that was surprising. Game will have chat as well, in speechbubbles over the players head. So you can say "pwnd" and whatnot when you kill someone, if that sort of wording is your style.
You can also see some videos of some aspects of the game on my youtube account here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=luderhamster ---- but they're probably not too entertaining to watch
Let's hear some comments!
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