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Work in Progress / Alienware Comp Entry - Looking for feedback...

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Veneticus
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Posted: 8th Oct 2003 11:15 Edited at: 8th Oct 2003 11:19
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Here's one of my Alienware comp entries - XT Checkers! Yeah, I know, its just Chinese Checkers with the Alien thrown in gratuitously, but what the hey. Anyway, I was hoping someone would be kind enough to test it for me:

1) Does it work
2) What kind of FPS does it give
3) What do you think of the camera control (good/bad/ugly)

Link to the program: http://www.xtgladiators.com/download/XTCheckers.exe
(approx 3MB download)

Here's a screenshot:


Feedback would be appreciated.

[Edit] I haven't done the gameplay yet - this is just the title screen w/ a menu and the camera control.
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 8th Oct 2003 19:20
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Looks neat I'll download it when you can actually play it, time is limited.

Cheers,

Rich

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Posted: 8th Oct 2003 20:25 Edited at: 8th Oct 2003 20:29
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?? very original.

but....

i think we can make whatever kind of game we want to do, just use the model and let it see on the screen.
i was believing the game you submit must be a gameplay where the alien models figure in ok, not just to use like a puppet to make the game pass the rules of competition.

i'm wrong?reply me please.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 24th Oct 2003 12:31
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Hard to tell without playing the game Ermes, but I would say this would be perfectly acceptable. The Aliens have to feature in the game in a significant way, which they would appear to do here. Contestants for a "game show" is fine.

Cheers,

Rich

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Posted: 24th Oct 2003 19:05
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Congratulations on having your screen shot posted in this month's newsletter!
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Hi,

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nice, looks cool, one thing though, you might concider applying a texture to the plaing pieces, they'd be alot easer to see and to make out the shape, unless you have some other thoughts in mind just my thoughts ....

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I'm almost sorry they put the screenshot in the newsletter - now I have to actually finish the game .

Rich: It's mostly a board game, like checkers or chess (google "Chinese Checkers"). The Alien part of it is two-fold:
1) Animation - when you move the pieces, the alien takes the place of the piece and walks/jumps to the new location.
2) "Alien Enhanced" mode - a gameplay variation where every few rounds, the board gets "jumbled" up based on a thematic cut-scene (casino night, Saturday Night fever, The Matrix fight scene, etc.) where the Aliens do....something.

DarkSun - thanks for the info, at least its not a complete dog.

CPU - You're absolutely correct - those pieces get lost. During one play-test, I thought I'd won - then I realized I still had 1 piece sitting back in home base I'd missed - doh!

Here's an updated screenshot - I hope to have a beta-test version soon.

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