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[lowpoly]

What it is:
I'm making a hi-res, lo-fi FPS, where you play as a Wizard. Kinda like this guy  

ALPHA VERSION
http://26k.org/dev/play/wizard3D_v023.zip

What it look like:




I'm building this game to support resolutions up to 1920x1200. Giant pixels for everyone

[lowpoly]

mini devlog

12.08.09
+ test level up
+ added data file support
+ pixel art extruded in 3D
12.09.09
+ added door primitives
12.11.09
+ added base FX system
12.13.09
+ first playable v009
12.14.09
+ updated origin of player's attacks
+ added base first person weapon
12.20.09
+ rough level blocked out
+ first enemy AI pass
+ projectile weapon vs. environment impact FX
12.27.09
+ Alpha version v023
01.04.10
+ added sound effects engine

[Alec S.]

Oh. Hell. Yes.

 

[Türbo Bröther]

I'm building this game to support resolutions up to 1920x1200. Giant pixels for everyone

Does that include aspect ratios of 16:10? I have a sexy monitor and would like to run it fullscreen.

[lowpoly]

I think both 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 are considered 16:10, so you should be good.

[dbb]

My lord! It's like NetHack in virtual reality! When I was a kid in the eighties, this is pretty much what we expected 21st Century computer games to look like.

So far, this is my favourte of the many games using Oryx's sprites. At least in terms of how it looks. 

[longshot]

This looks great!  Can't wait to see what you do for viewmodels.

[moi]

How do you extrude?
Is it an automated process or do you painfully make it by hand?

Looks awesome mang!

[lowpoly]

How do you extrude?
Is it an automated process or do you painfully make it by hand?

Looks awesome mang!

thanks all!

So originally, I was going to use the sprites at 4x res as billboards but I wasn't real thrilled with how they looked up close in the game, especially at high res. I ended up writing a little function that reads the RGB of each pixel in a sprite, decides whether or not it's a corner, edge, etc. from the surrounding pixels, and builds out it's respective sides in space using the RGB as vertex color. For the time being, I'm ignoring the backfacing polys since I have the characters set up to always face the camera on the Y axis.

I'm considering building out the backfacing polys and allowing the characters to freely roam around before they are aware of you. I'll have to figure out a solution for coloring their 'backs' tho since right now it's the same as the front.

[shrimp]

Look(ed) good! (Your image links seem to be broken today)

How about orienting the characters edge-on when they're facing away from you/hiding?

[lowpoly]

bah, fixed. Guess you can't use tumblr as an image host 

That's not a bad idea, I'm just no sure how it would look when you are above/below them. I'm starting to think that with the style of gameplay I'm designing for, I wont even need them to do anything but face and attack you. Which would be great, cause there's still a ton of other housekeeping things I have to square away now before I can release a playable. Which leads me to a...

mini update
Nothing new to show yet, but I spent last night trying to figure out how to make all the particles in the game camera-facing. Using a single surface particle system, I have to manually move each vertex on each particle to orient it to the camera. The math is a bit beyond me, so I'm struggling with it right now. It's working in my test, but fully implementing it will take at least another night of programming. 

[Juha Kangas]

This relly looks great!  

[oryx]

are you thinking of texturing the world too? or keeping it mostly color?

[J. R. Hill]

There are plenty of tilesets that would look good on walls.  (Not to mention Oryx's own tilesets)

[lowpoly]

yup, def planning on texturing everything but I need to concentrate on level design and gameplay first and foremost. I ran a little test with some of the textures as a proof of concept earlier and they looked good in first person, so I'm really excited about it. Just figure I'll hammer through this early part, get everything working right, then get on to the fun part

[Melly]

I love the way this looks.

[lowpoly]

First Playable 
http://26k.org/dev/play/wizard_v009.zip

WASD to move, SPACE to jump, SHIFT to run, LMB to shoot, RMB to open doors
R to reset and I to invert the mouse.
ESC to quit

Not too much going on here yet, but you can run and jump around, shoot fireballs, and fall in a big inescapable pit. I'm interested in whether or not the game runs smoothly for everyone and how the controls/action feels. I know WASD doesn't work for everyone but I haven't had time to write a proper key setup yet.

Also, feel free to send along any resolution requests you want to see in future versions.

Thanks, looking forward to the feedback!

[Kazerad]

Ran perfectly smooth for me in my computer's normal resolution (1280x1024). Controls took me a minute to get used to when jumping across the white columns in the pit since in FPS games I'm used to maintaining my forward movement when jumping, but it didn't take me long to adjust to fully and ultimately just gave me more control over my jumps.

The fireball effect looks very nice, but it's hard to see since it is more or less coming out of the center of your eye. It'd look a lot nicer, I think, if it followed the approach taken by similar games where it is offset to one side or the bottom.

I also rather like the 3D effect on the enemy sprites, which is why I was a bit disappointed that they always face you, making it more or less impossible to see unless you get right up on top of an enemy. I recognize that they'd be hard to see if they didn't face you, but considering most "combat" seems to be relatively long-range, there isn't much difference between the 3D sprites and 2D ones.

[Ivan]

Looks great so far!

[deadeye]

With the flat color and the lighting the way it is, everything looks... eerily crisp.  I dig it.

Runs silky smooth at 1680x1050 for me.  Eerily silky smooth.

The fireball effect looks very nice, but it's hard to see since it is more or less coming out of the center of your eye. It'd look a lot nicer, I think, if it followed the approach taken by similar games where it is offset to one side or the bottom.

I also rather like the 3D effect on the enemy sprites, which is why I was a bit disappointed that they always face you, making it more or less impossible to see unless you get right up on top of an enemy. I recognize that they'd be hard to see if they didn't face you, but considering most "combat" seems to be relatively long-range, there isn't much difference between the 3D sprites and 2D ones.

Agreed on both points.  Perhaps the enemies could be a little "loose" with their camera orientation?  Just to show off their 3Dness and all.