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[agersant]

Update 7

Today I worked on my new particle system. The whole thing is basically working, it needs optimization and more effects/options but these will probably wait until I need them.
Pierre made the last concept art we need for our demo but I wasn't super happy with it. I feel sort of guilty for sending him back to the drawing board :x

Today's eye-candy will be a tiny example of the particle engine. Even though it hasn been optimized at all, I'm curious about the framerate you experience.

[Randomasta]

Slick artwork so far . What platform do you plan to release the game on?

[Franklin's Ghost]

I'm getting a framerate of about 28-30, but my computer isn't running the best at the moment.

[ink.inc]

Awesome!
Games with tentacles > Games without tentacles

Just like anime! Oh wait...

mmmmmmm

[Randomasta]

Oh, didn't see that particle engine you posted. I get around 45 fps in Firefox.

[agersant]

Thank you all for the results on the particle test. It does help!

@Randomasta > This is going to be playable in a browser through Flash Player (and a desktop version is unlikely).

Update 8
Today I did lots of optimization in my particle system code and I started designing some game UI. Tadaaaam.





The background texture is a bit shitty and needs some artist love (soon). The icons are placeholders from other games.

[agersant]

Update 9

Today I added a few more options to the particle system and optimized (even more) the rendering pipeline. Next in line is some UI programming =)

Pierre made a concept art for the monster god Orthrus' which was the last one we needed. He also made a proper texture for the menu background and started animating the main character sprite. Today's eye-candy, Orthrus :

[tchassin]

Can I have one of those ? 

[threesided]

fook me this is really nice stuff!

Do you happen to have a link to Pierre's stuff anywhere? I'd love to take a look at some more if he's got it.

[Manuel Magalhães]

Nice artwork.

[Theophilus]

Wow, love the art here.

[agersant]

Do you happen to have a link to Pierre's stuff anywhere?

Here is his portfolio he hasn't updated in a year. He also writes art and game design articles in French on Les Forges.

Update 10
Sorry for the delayed update, both Pierre and I were very busy in the past two days so not much has happened. I have started removing dust from the UI code in my framework and it's about all I have done.
Pierre pushed the first pixels of the tileset, yay !

Today's eye-candy is the artwork for Mithridate the Undead King. He will not appear in the prototype but Pierre drawed him before we settled out objectives <3 :

[agersant]

Ahoy all, just a quick message to let you know that I'm leaving on a holiday so there won't be any update here during a whole week.

[Jerom]

Any news with awesome artwork?   

[agersant]

Sorry for the lack of updates.
Pierre has been working on the main character's animation in the past few days/weeks.
I came back from holiday and found out I had tons of late work for university projects and exams. It all ends on March the 28th and I can't reasonably work on Cerberus until then. I'll ask Pierre if he can update the devlog a bit in the meantime.

Thanks for your interest.

[dota_mtdew]

inquisitive minds need to know: WHERE is cerberus team??

[peous]

just discovered this thread; looks nice !
please post some updates

[agersant]

inquisitive minds need to know: WHERE is cerberus team??

Did you mean what happened to us or where are we located ?
See below for the former. Concerning the latter, I am now in Guildford (UK). Pierre is in Toulouse Grenoble (France) but we're both from Paris.

Update 11

Sorry for the long hiatus, I thought I would come back earlier!
I am now done with my university finals and I moved to the UK because I started working as a programming intern for Lionhead Studios. I took me a while to move, get used to the place and build a new desktop computer but I finally feel home enough to work on personal projects again. I have restarted working on Cerberus and so has Pierre =)


I have started working on combat code and I have collision detection working for it but there is not animation or feedback for anything yet. I'm still working with placeholder art anyway.
I also worked a bit on the title screen which now has its proper background texture and some cool particle effects (but I want to add some more!).
Finally, I worked on a logo but I don't really like it and it doesn't work very well in small resolutions anyway.

[Franklin's Ghost]

Good to hear this is still going

[offset]

Hey! Awesome art! I totally love it, man.