I decided to redo the textures after all... and add some light/jets/lasers to the front part.





Rendered top view for sprite creation

I decided to redo the textures after all... and add some light/jets/lasers to the front part.

I preferred the previous one

The blue/white combo would certainly show up nicely in a game sprite... I'd consider keeping that striping, too

New images to show off...

3rd main character of the story...

Lea


Her (test) ship


Speaking of ships, the previous named Hammer ship is going to be re-assigned to Artur.
I'll probably keep the blue version around for something.

And starting to work on various enemies.

P1

Looks nasty at 128x128, so I might need to rethink this.

And music track provided by David Juteau.
http://www.mediahodai.com/gamedev/Run_3_minute_edit.mp3

Cheers

god... I should have gotten you to do the damn art for my game

Thanks Brian.

Dang.
Now we have to find a way to fit all this awesome art into the game.

There is going to be gameplay, right? :-)

Don't get me wrong, I'd give you some points for a slideshow of the above art with accompanying text exposition. But I think your overall score would suffer. Give the player at least one choice anyway. ("Which ship do you like better? Correct, you win!")

Gameplay? We have to include gameplay?

This is an outrage! Whom do I speak with about this?

Why, I have half a mind to include gameplay just out of spite, good sirs!

Carlos & Doug's Design Doc
* Cool Story - check
* Cool Music - check
* Cool Characters - check
* Cool Sprites - check
* Cool Refactoring - check
* Gameplay - hey, who did we assign this to? Let me check with marketing.... OK, marketing says 'Just list lots of features and overwhelm judges.. gameplay is overrated.'

Whew, you had us worried Matt.

Ok, so working on my bad guys enemies... Looking good at 512 size


Probably the code monkey will say, 'We can't have 512x512 sprites, shrink it down'

So down to 128 size


My textures! Noooooooooo!

Most likely code monkey will say, 'Great, now making it 64 size!'




Here ya go... 1 down... 1,000 to go.. when is deadline? 2014?

Some in-game characters that will appear...
Images courtesy of Noriko Jepson.. (need an artist? she is the one)
Artur


Asha


Lea


Dr Hwan (Lea's dad)


Commander CKarl


Kan T'iu


Vicente Drake


Nikori Achiveri


Sy Kuro.. sorry you need to watch the movie for this one.

Can the powers that be extend the contest another 3 weeks please?
LOL

Cheers

First playable is up at http://udevgames.s3.amazonaws.com/entries/Z1.zip

This only has 2 test levels. The real level work is moving along, but we are a bit behind and wanted to just get something up there.

The source is on github at https://github.com/gooddoug/Z1

The dev diary is still at http://z-uno.tumblr.com/ but it's mostly just me whining.

Have fun!

1) menu has some serious delays in it. clicking credits seems to work, but over time, clicking other things caused serious delays. I clicked vote twice, and then I clicked start, and I got shoved into my web browser twice while the game was trying to start up. How disconcerting. Vote also caused some white text to appear, but it was very hard to figure out what it was saying.
2) not sure what saga does.
3) it's not clear that we're supposed to click skip as a way to progress past dialog or click on the giant green box (like previous UI elements)
4) not sure at all how I'm supposed to shoot an enemy that spawns up behind me, flies in a straight line towards the center, and then backwards out in a straight line. This is completely attackable. (assuming I can only move in a circle and spam the fire button).
5) let me hold down space bar? my spacebar would like to not die.
6) after 2 waves of not killing anything, I got stuck on the death screen for like 2 minutes without being able to progress back to the main menu.
7) randomly losing the game (not a "life" or "hit point", the entire game) because the enemies spawn behind you, and you have 0 time to react is a douche move.
8) you should probably just progress from the "press any key" screen automagically after a set period without having to press any key or stating to press any key. Still support advancing via any key, but just not state it explicitly. Should also allow advancing via mouse click (to be consistent with the rest of your UI).
9) the enemy ship explosion seems kind of out of place. multicolor explosions of all sort? I mean, I suppose that's okay, but perhaps make it a tad faster?

I see some potential in this gameplay for some fast riveting gameplay. But the controls and level design needs to be worked out. Also the UI needs to be a tad more consistent.
9)

#1 Blame coder
#2 that will give you the background of the story. not going anyplace now.
#3 that part is being worked over right now
#4 this is a game that you can't win. wa ha ha... yeah, the game playing part is the last bit. lol.
#5 this tester is finding too many bugs
#6 fire the programmer? Also, see #4
#7 fire the play tester?

hmmm.. this playable is way too early. Who released it? I will get Apple legal to send in their goons to confiscate their machine. Doug, did you leave the playable at a bar like that iPhone?

SkyHawk, if you are not competing, I think what you are saying is that you are volunteering to make our levels?