[Prototype Demo]Morning mountain stroll (Won 1st place in Competition !!!!!!!!!)
Recently upgraded my development engine, to the newest version of the FPSC series, thought the previous ones really were old school FPS type engine with limiting features and graphical equivalent of quake on a bad LSD trip. I am enjoying my current progress with the beta's of the newest version of reloaded.
In its current state it's only a outdoor engine.As the engine progresses indoor scenes will become a reality, It's a real time shader and shadow system engine means any changes made with in the editor is in real time and means near instant test game.
Recently TGC has announced that they will be having a small comp for users created levels, for their steam release, prices included $200 and a Geforce 660. Decided on entering it, for the sake of promoting my media, considering it will be seen by steam users it will be worthwhile enterprise, and can benefit from the PR.
As the title suggests been designing a mountain, right now the design is focused on game play and visual aspect, in particular getting the player focused on the task on hand and using the terrain to channel the direction the player must move in, with visual clues and entity movement.The original design was a spiral path down the mountain and maximize map area, however I soon discovered, although the plan is good, the path is too straight and AI is noticed miles before they should be seen so in other words, the player has opportunity to "think". So basically enhancing the terrain and visually obstruct the player view, keep the path narrow, so the player doesn't go off and explore the wilderness, so if he does go of wandering, indirectly punish him with rewarding him with tougher enemies however no ammo or health pick ups, also put in a hidden shooting range in there.
http://s17.postimg.org/3r09egnjj/Untitled.jpg
In its current state it's only a outdoor engine.As the engine progresses indoor scenes will become a reality, It's a real time shader and shadow system engine means any changes made with in the editor is in real time and means near instant test game.
Recently TGC has announced that they will be having a small comp for users created levels, for their steam release, prices included $200 and a Geforce 660. Decided on entering it, for the sake of promoting my media, considering it will be seen by steam users it will be worthwhile enterprise, and can benefit from the PR.
As the title suggests been designing a mountain, right now the design is focused on game play and visual aspect, in particular getting the player focused on the task on hand and using the terrain to channel the direction the player must move in, with visual clues and entity movement.The original design was a spiral path down the mountain and maximize map area, however I soon discovered, although the plan is good, the path is too straight and AI is noticed miles before they should be seen so in other words, the player has opportunity to "think". So basically enhancing the terrain and visually obstruct the player view, keep the path narrow, so the player doesn't go off and explore the wilderness, so if he does go of wandering, indirectly punish him with rewarding him with tougher enemies however no ammo or health pick ups, also put in a hidden shooting range in there.
http://s17.postimg.org/3r09egnjj/Untitled.jpg
Comments
Smaller trees ect compared to interior/exterior.
The point of showing people is so you can improve things :)
Have added some some game play elements sound zones triggers and paths for the AI.The moment that is up and running I can push for playable level :P
Bits and pieces of the level (excuse the low quality) The walls have been added, to block player view as well, as cover for AI and player, the new AI commands allows for peek, duck and strafing and other little bits and bobs as well as add some additional foliage I found that a true nature level, that player may go off wondering. Missing the game play completely.
Oh forgot to mention the editor is a realtime editor so shaders shadow maps ect in done instantly, build process takes about 10 seconds :P
Layout of the map, Had to consider several aspects, would it be better to go up or down the mountain found it to be better to go up the mountain.
Note the readme
Note this engine is still very much in Beta, is missing lots and lots of features, it's bad, but the developers will not be judging the game to harshly as a result of the engine still being in development.
It's recommended that you match my system as currently the engine isn't that optimized for lower end cards, so at least a quad CPU and a 570GTX.
Note with certain elements missing it's is actually really hard to beat the AI, if you are thinking about run and gun, you will be dead with in the first few minutes, however there is plenty hiding places, and some ammo and health picks up.
Other than that, this is the first level I have build in nearly 7 years since, I have moved over to content development.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_pFfSjYuZXkUEFoSDZGWXVJLTg/edit?usp=sharing
Oh forgot to mention, it's not too late to provide some feedback, the developers is short listing 10 games, after which if chosen I am still able to improve and tweak for the final judging, :)
Ok tried normal mode, take a while to load up....the music is way too load vs soundeffects, pressed esc to change volume , exited out! :P
I also shot a guy about 20 times, and there was no feedback that i was shooting him, and then he died.
Overall the level design is great, i like the fact you feel like you are making progress and each area feels like a new area.
I also wanted to change mouse invert, couldn't find a way to do it.
Its also really slow and sluggish on my machine, and i have an I7?
It started getting a bit repetitive towards the middle of the game, with the same enemy, the same wall barriers etc.
Anyway, just typing my initial raw experience.
On another note its nice to see FPS with a new version, i played with version 1 ages ago when it first came out....
AI is unfortunately all that is available currently, importing your own AI isn't available yet, or you need to spend money on buying MAX, and other tools, which don't have however soon we will get zombies, and other AI, still very early days.
Yeah rift development is put on hold till the core features is done.Like I said engine is very lacking in a lot of little things, there isn't even a particle system.
The other thing how far away were you from the AI before you started shooting, there is a range limit...
The other cool thing is last week they "hired" (not that they paying me any thing) to become part of the internal testing team, unfortunately signed a NDA, so I have to actually wait till an official beta is released before I able to show case any new features.
Also cool they will be renaming the engine once the first version is released, as they will be adding 3rd person, isometric and top down views in the future, also cool is they decided to update the IDE in the next beta's.
100$ for a gold isn't too bad and this engine has really improved, I wouldn't be surprised to a couple of steam games with this engine in the near future.
But awesome feedback thanks ;)
So far so good
If you haven't played the first version yet, try it would like some feedback good or bad doesn't matter, really would like to win first place.That Geforce 660TI & $200 will come in handy.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_pFfSjYuZXkUEFoSDZGWXVJLTg/edit?usp=sharing
As you can see from the VID made a lot of changes, little tweaks and goodies, to make it more rounded level, also added a lot of check points, as you will DIE often :D
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_pFfSjYuZXkOFdFakQ1X1A1amM/edit?usp=sharing
Game entry that won !!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_pFfSjYuZXkOFdFakQ1X1A1amM/edit?usp=sharing
Here is the official newsletter.However bit on the sad side, that they didn't do a mini review, but I am sure that will be in the month end newsletter, better be or there will be hell to pay :P
http://fpscreator.thegamecreators.com/wordpress/