@afrofools: Nahhhhh that's not what he's sayyyyyin. I'd say it's up to Fattony. And by that, I mean him and his writing team. And by that, I mean everyone should still be able to suggest names, just not decide on them... that's up to the writing team, as it's essentially their vision so they will know what name fits.
If you guys/girls absolutely need me for something then contact me, otherwise I'll let you sort it out yourselves. I'm busy this week making an animated movie (not related to this project). Choose what you want to do over the naming, and anything else. I appreciate the initiative all of you are taking. Just be careful not to push other's out. Have an awesome week.
@afrofools: Hey guys I've been a lurker of the site since the beginning.
I'm currently in the last term of the Game Design program at the Vancouver Film School, we are currently working on our own videogame project for a industry pitch this November.
Said so, I have good experience with Maya, the Adobe Suite and some Unity + C#
The game we are currently making is National Mech League, which is basically Mechs meet NHL/Madden. The mechanics and core design are basically a dual stick shooter with some upgrade features. Our developer blog is: http://www.nationalmechleague.com/ This is a student project and we are not allow to profit of it, it is just for portfolio purpose so we can pitch it to the local industry, to either get a job, or get funding for further development.
The role I'm covering for this game is Artist, from visual design, to character design, enviromental props and 3d art (modeling, mapping, texture and animation). You can see a lot of what I've done recently in both blogs.
I'll be free after the november 15th. I love Giantbomb! and I would definitelly like to be part of this!. Given the eventuality, I might actually get a Job after graduation, I would give you guys a detail schedule of what can I deliver for ya.
This is the animation of our main character THE OCHO a Mech Cowboy because what is manlier than a cowboy and a mech!?... well a Mech Cowboy, yes.
This is a Wormbot, it has a 3 phase timed cycle of digging, stalking and shooting at the player:
All this characters were design, model, texturized and animated by me. It is still not AAA material but, I will hopefully get there.
Cheers, and I hope I can help with this madness! This game can be so Bananas I want to be part of it!
@afrofools: Hey guys I've been a lurker of the site since the beginning.
I'm currently in the last term of the Game Design program at the Vancouver Film School, we are currently working on our own videogame project for a industry pitch this November.
Said so, I have good experience with Maya, the Adobe Suite and some Unity + C#
The game we are currently making is National Mech League, which is basically Mechs meet NHL/Madden. The mechanics and core design are basically a dual stick shooter with some upgrade features. Our developer blog is: http://www.nationalmechleague.com/ This is a student project and we are not allow to profit of it, it is just for portfolio purpose so we can pitch it to the local industry, to either get a job, or get funding for further development.
The role I'm covering for this game is Artist, from visual design, to character design, enviromental props and 3d art (modeling, mapping, texture and animation). You can see a lot of what I've done recently in both blogs.
I'll be free after the november 15th. I love Giantbomb! and I would definitelly like to be part of this!. Given the eventuality, I might actually get a Job after graduation, I would give you guys a detail schedule of what can I deliver for ya.
This is the animation of our main character THE OCHO a Mech Cowboy because what is manlier than a cowboy and a mech!?... well a Mech Cowboy, yes.
This is a Wormbot, it has a 3 phase timed cycle of digging, stalking and shooting at the player:
All this characters were design, model, texturized and animated by me. It is still not AAA material but, I will hopefully get there.
Cheers, and I hope I can help with this madness! This game can be so Bananas I want to be part of it!
Those are some sweet, high caliber animations! We'd definitely love to have you! Fill out this form if you haven't already. If you'd like to join the design team, let me know and I'll add you to our PMs.
A quick prototype I've thrown together of a 2D character (in this case, Goemon) moving in a 3D environment. Clearly very early with a lot of issues to work out, but I just want to get something out there for people to see so I know if I'm heading in the right direction. I'm going to try to put together a simple battle view prototype this week as well.
A quick prototype I've thrown together of a 2D character (in this case, Goemon) moving in a 3D environment. Clearly very early with a lot of issues to work out, but I just want to get something out there for people to see so I know if I'm heading in the right direction. I'm going to try to put together a simple battle view prototype this week as well.
Good job Chase. Can the player move diagonally or is it just up, down, left & right?
@tariqari: At the moment, yes, the player can move diagonally, but it looks a bit odd. However, I think it can be cleaned up to look OK, some thought just needs to be put into which 2D animation is shown as you're moving diagonally.
@Chaser324: that test looks so cool! The look of a 2d character running around like that in a 3d world really catches my eye and i hope we can maybe stick with that :D
Are you able to post this stuff on our 'proper' forum? Also, is there any chance of sending files my way (at some point), since I own the Twitter and YouTube accounts for this endeavour, I would love to cut some hot promos, or just use videos/images to help disseminate ideas amongst ourselves.
@Chaser324: Cool! But I was talking about the raw dog assets and stuff, so I could capture real footage myself.
In other news...I made this to demonstrate the hierarchy of our team so far, this mirrors how I've created the forums and subforums based on the original list of users. Each department's position on this image doesn't mean anything with regards to seniority or power.
@Chaser324: Fucking hype. Thanks! I love that you're using Goemon.
Just to be clear, I'm not planning to put this (or any of our future work in progress stuff) 'out there' through our official channels, unless I get okays from the team. I know we have to control what we show publicly, but I'm really interested in fucking around with this kind of stuff, and I'm already getting a sense at this early stage, of what yous guys could be capable of, it'll help me shape my story ideas to a degree.
@Fattony12000: There are surprisingly few 2D games out there where there are separate sprites when moving up/down on the screen. Goemon is just one of the first that came to mind.
I might try to make some more tweaks to the prototype before our coding and team leads meetings this weekend. I have some ideas about how I can do some "fake dynamic lighting" on the 2D character.
@Fattony12000: I kinda feel like the Giant Bomb community is smart enough about games to realize that any "bad" looking early stuff is merely prototype material. I'd say promote the shit out of it if it was up to me.
@Chaser324: I noticed that effect, it's slick. It really helps to sell the character if an artist can be even a little bit more expressive with something as simple as character movement.
@development: When I say public, I mean those outside of Giant Bomb. WE'RE HERE DEEP ON THE INSIDE DUDER.
@Chaser324: This guy's been making a pixel game in Unity, and until now I didn't even realize it was unity, because he has awesome dynamic lighting on the sprites and environment (which is 3D).
You can find insight into how he's making it strewn throughout the comments section in the top link. He seems a bit reluctant to divulge all the info, but there's a bit to go on if you're curious. It seems like he's doing this without Unity Pro, too, which I find hard to believe. ...But then again he has no reason to lie (can't publish with hacked copies!).
@Chaser324: Cool! But I was talking about the raw dog assets and stuff, so I could capture real footage myself.
In other news...I made this to demonstrate the hierarchy of our team so far, this mirrors how I've created the forums and subforums based on the original list of users. Each department's position on this image doesn't mean anything with regards to seniority or power.
@development: Thanks for the links. I definitely do want to spend some time looking into some more advanced lighting, and I have some ideas but it'll definitely take some experimentation to figure out just what we can do within the limitations of Unity.
I'll push my current code to GitHub and let some of you other coders experiment with it a bit as well (I'll also need to get some of the closed source packages I plan on using to you guys separately...that stuff can't go into a public GitHub repo). Going to be a bit occupied tonight though, so it may be tomorrow before that goes out.
I'll also be sending out an official invite to all people on the coding team for a proposed Google Hangout on Saturday at 12:00 PM EDT (GMT -4).
EDIT: I got the lighting on the sprite working. Sent a build to Fattony so he can make a video and put it up on Youtube.
ooh, I just found out about this. I'm a 3d artist/animator (I prefer inorganic, but I can do just about anything). Also I used to be a Level Designer. I don't have a huge amount of time for following discussions at the moment, but if there are any assets that need made I can churn them out in my lunch break. :)
@Fattony12000: There are surprisingly few 2D games out there where there are separate sprites when moving up/down on the screen. Goemon is just one of the first that came to mind.
I might try to make some more tweaks to the prototype before our coding and team leads meetings this weekend. I have some ideas about how I can do some "fake dynamic lighting" on the 2D character.
I put together a 2D engine with up/down movement + platforms last year and I also had it running with some fake dynamic lighting. In the video, it's only for walking in and out of shadows but it's just a matter of changing a few things to get it to apply colored lighting as well. Holla if you want some input on working it out the way I got it.
@Godmil: Good to have you! We're working on concept art right now, but be sure to keep an eye on our alt forums for when we are ready to start producing assets.
@Fobwashed: That looks great! Abe sure punched the crap out of those blobs.
@Fobwashed: Yeah, I've gotten the lighting interacting with the sprite since that prototype video was made. There may be another video coming soon that shows that lighting change.
EDIT - Here's a look at what I'm talking about:
There's the lighting on the character in action. You'll also notice a different camera angle here that I was experimenting with that follows the character by moving along and rotating around a single axis. You'll also notice that the camera movement isn't quite 1:1 with character movement, there's a little bit of delay just to make it a bit more natural.
I plan on making it fairly simple for us to be able to dynamically change how the camera behaves in the game, in order to give us flexibility on how we guide the camera and character through the environment.
Also, it isn't apparent in any way, but I have changed the player movement to be all relative to the camera. For example, in the first build, if the player pressed up, the player moved up along the street, but not up with respect to the camera. Now if the player press up, they actually move up on the screen. I haven't really decided which is better, but if we're going to have complex environments and be moving the camera around, I think the motion will need to be relative to the camera in order to not confuse the player.
It has come to my attention that people are making new stories. You are wasting your time. We have decided to go with @Fattony12000 's story. You can expand on his story, but you can't change it.
Respect your team leads. Some team leads roles are not being respected. We need leads otherwise the project will spin out of control. If you don't give them authority then you are making it harder for the team to succeed.
Don't remake documents that already exist. Don't remake accounts that already exist. Stop wasting everyone's time. If you can see a change that needs to be made, you make that change, don't make another document with your changes. Don't remake the YouTube account, for example.
Don't use Microsoft word in the Drive. Use the built-in document editor to create and edit Google Drive format documents.
Inactive team leads will be warned that they will lose their leadership position if they don't participate. The duration of inactivity is less important in certain areas like Music, which put out quality work consistently, but participate every second week.
Unrelated Sidenote: Nice work @Chaser324 on the camera and lighting.
Ah man I'd really like to help but all I could do is a bit of art , even though my dream is to make a game someday, I have no skill in programming or design maybe I can do something for the sequel When I get some experience ha ha.
@DrFlapjack: Yes, though the main focus of the meeting other than general matters will be the design implementation. If you have anything you would like to discuss you should edit the 'meetings' spreadsheet and add what you want to talk about. I will be asleep during that time, but the others will be awake. @Fattony12000 has a G+ hangout event prepared for that time.
Hey guys, I've volunteered to be your mixmeister in the upcoming meetings. I'll be keeping pace, using this document. Fill it in as best you can for your team as your next meeting nears (can everybody edit that? I donno. Seems like it). I'll take that into the meeting and use it as an outline for the whole flow of the meeting. People have been getting way off-topic, myself included, so the next meetings will be much more structured. I'll record the results in that document afterward, for every meeting, and I'll make a post in the appropriate (alt) forum stating what the teams decided needs to be done, where you can then discuss specific tasks if needed.
So:
1. Update that document before your meeting, with everything you want discussed. Only post key terms and try to avoid redundancies.
2. Stay on-topic during the meeting. Turn your phones off... or at least don't answer them.
3. After the meeting, if you need any clarification on what needs to be done, or if you didn't catch the meeting, just go to the new forum post and see what's up (but you should attend if possible).
Hi there. I think I will have to step down from working on this game entirely. A music project that I am involved with seems to be moving ahead faster than I had anticipated. I wish you all the best with this endeavor!
Also apologies for answering the phone last meeting and leaving the meeting early, but it was an important call. irrelevant now I guess.
Best of luck... I look forward to playing the finished game.
Wow, totally didn't know this was happening. If I wasn't sort of underwater on classes already, I'd totally get involved. Would really love to get some real world coding experience. I'll keep an eye out to see if you guys try this again next year. I hope to be able to contribute then. I'd be more useful with a couple more semesters of coding under my belt anyway. Good luck. I look forward to seeing what becomes of this!
@yami4ct: Hopefully we will do something like this next year. Things are just now starting to happen. I'm not a coder, but from what I can tell the code seems to just be scripts using the API of Unity. So if in future you want to join, you're in.
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