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Archon 2160
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| So, I've been working on the third unit, the Djinni. It seemed like a very easy one but it turned out that the effects were harder to achieve that I first thought. Now, Im just about over a week old when it comes to programming Blitz3D so i guess that has to be the reason Still I've create as much as I feel i can release just a small techdemo for you guys explicit. It's not an official demo at all and lacks of lots of things (options for example :D) Still take it or leave it, I hope I can work harder for you the next weeks so I can give you a proper demo in the end of the month. If you do like it/hate it please I would like to know. Write a small comment in the Showcase-section in the community forum. Thank you! DEMO: http://archon2160.pbwiki.com/f/A2160TD.rar note. The Djinni cannot be chosen by the both players in one game. Then it all is messy, icky and unplayable. Ok? Andreas Jirenius http://www.solodev.eu |
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| So Im going back to my work tomorrow so the time Ive had to start up the programming wont be as long anymore. Today I finally pulled together that both players can play the same unit. I added some particles on the nade-explosions (which just were animated meshes before) I also have started on a third unit which I hope will be released together with the 2 others on the demo. More information soon.. night now. Andreas Jirenius http://www.solodev.eu |
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| Archon 2160 A tribute to the wonderful smashhit, Archon, from 1983. If I would compress all my designdocuments, visions and ideas into a few sentences I would say that this is all about creating the gameplay and multiplayerfun that Archon did deliver but still taking the concept into todays technology and graphics. It's all about learning to play the 12 different units and dive into several clashes with the opponent on the arena and still playing tactical on the "gameboard". Well, if you want to know more please visit the Archon 2160 wikipage at: http:\\archon2160.pbwiki.com So here we go: Archon2160 as an idea has been there for a long time but we started the development in Spring, 2006. We were a small dev.team where I was the Project Manager and Lead Artist. As time went by I realized that I was the only one contributing to the project I was burning for and in August, 2006 I decided to stop the project and try to find a whole new team. Now we all know that finding dedicated teammembers is hard so eventually I decided to start programming it myself. After a short while I decided to use Blitz3D (as Im a pretty lousy programmer) and this is my very first project in B3D so PLEASE be gentle with me and don't hammer to hard cause Im actually a little bit proud of achieving this much already. I've now been working on this for a week (yes I didnt find the Worklogs until now :P) and this is what Ive got so far: 2 Playable units (to be able to play 2player you need at least 1 gamepad/joystick) 2 Playable guns (Flamethrower and Grenadelauncher) 2 different controllingtypes (8-way and carsteering) Working HUD (at least the energy and weaponstatusbars) Working Effects and particlesystems Working Collisionsystem Animated obstacles on the arena (nades still go through them (?) ) Thanks for reading this first post and I hope there will be a lot more soon. My intentions is to release a first Demo within the next few days. Andreas Jirenius http://www.solodev.eu |