Thursday, May 26, 2011

Update

I have my game started. So far what I can tell you is that I have a ship on the screen using 3D models and there is no perspective to the 3Dness of the game to add that flat, old, and retro arcade style feal to the game.

So this is the list of progresss

    Player 1 and Player 2 can move there ships
    Both players can fire up to 500 bullets on the screen at once
    You have 3 different shots that you can do (Single/ Triple/ 5 Shot spreads)
    There is a player 1 and player 1 status hud that is visible wiht Health and Shield bars (Not working yet thought)
    The game so far runs at any resolution on the screen that Is not a wide screen aspect ratio. (If you do wide screen it screws around with the location system)
    It supports 1 game pad at the moment

Sys req so far as of what I can see

    You will need a single or dual core CPU AMD/INTEL 1.5GHZ
    1 GB Ram XP/ 2 GB Vista - 7
    HD Unknow as that game is not complete
    DirectX 9 (Latest)
    .NET framwork 4.x
    Sound N/A
    Internet or Network for dual computer coop play

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Note: all the system req are a guess because of systems so far that I have tested my test app on they will change as time passes and the game is progressed.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Engine

Ok, I am going to stick with Truevision3D as the game engine and VB.NET. Now its time to start designing it.

Monday, April 25, 2011

I want to develope a game

For a long time I have wanted to make games and I learned how to program in HS back in 1998. I learned in BASICA - QUICK BASIC then moved to Visual Studios 6 and learned VB. From there I learned how to do many things now I really want a challenge.

For the past 10 years I have been fooling around with a 3D engine called Truevision3D and now I really want to use it to make a game. Don’t know if it will become a commercial or free game. I do know if I want to make money it will cost me $150 or if I want to make more than that I will have to pay $500. But if I make a game and it comes out good as a demo then yeah ill put up the funds to buy the commercial rights to the engine.

Now that the intro is out of the way.

Game: Arcade style space shooter

    3D Models, Landscapes, Space etc…
    Bosses
    Extra items purchase (Missiles, Mines, Lives, Extra Shield
    Mission Editor (make more levels to beat)
    Game Pad and Keyboard Support
    Wide screen Support
    32/64bit executable
    Multilayer Support (Single PC/ LAN)
    Save System

Development:

    Visual Basic 2010 Express
    Direct X 9 - Sound
    Windows XP to Windows 7
    Net-book Friendly (Don’t know yet probably)
    Engine Truevision3D or Maybe UDK
    Modeler Wings 3D
    Painting Gimp/ Paint Shop Pro/ Paint.net

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