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walaber
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Posted: 15th Nov 2003 02:48 Edited at: 15th Nov 2003 02:49
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OK, everyone who is making an alienware project- take a second and add a post to this thread with a short update on your project progress! I'm not asking for details or anything... but I think it would be interesting if everyone gave a % of completion or if they think their project will be done in time, etc.

to start things off, mby project is a kind of puzzle game. With just over a month left until the deadline, I am at about 80% completion. Just need to work on the graphics a little more, and add some last few features.

How's everyone else doing?
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My Project is Slowly Coming Along, though I have increased production speed. For the past month I've been gathering different effects and subroutines, and I finally have a solid engine planned. I'm working on the Dai Jon model as we speak. The full game will be a 3rd Person platformer. Nothing special. A few free flight battles, but thats about the peak of it. Now if only I could find a few shaders that would actually work, especially a realiztic skin and water shader, then I'd be all set. But until then, I gotta get a shader guru to supply me with them (Lee, Raven, hint hint )with written permission.

[Edit] Ok, news about Dai Jon. If I want it to be a platformer, It'd take more time then I have left. So, I'll switch it around. Make it a strategy fighter. The story is moved by battles and short cut scenes and will have a simple ATB style battle system (to keep things going). I have contacted Ethan Eves about using his music in my game (no reply yet) and I hope he lets me use his music. I may include an Armored Core arena style minigame away from the story for a bit more to do.


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98% programing is do`n
40% of the levels are do`n

my games a FPS that you may have seen

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Andy Igoe
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I'm considering the alienware competition, i've got a lot of stuff to do first though and so little time. If I could give up sleep for a month then it would be a definite, instead i'll just get everything else done and see if I have any time left over

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Concept Work: COMPLETE
Design & Research: 80%
Programming: 10%
Modelling: 40%
Sound Effects: 0%
Music: 0%


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hehe, i started 1 yesterday very simple arcadey type thing, not sure how to include the alien though so might not enter it into the compo
about 40% complete at the moment


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My game is 100%.
Near the deadline, it will be 150%.
Be careful, this is a powerful contender for the title.

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im only about 66.6% done - but i've got school work to do at the same time - the only time I can properly work on my game is on weekends :-(

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I'm about 90% done:

http://www.geocities.com/alienware_competition

...and like that; he's gone...
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15%
(my game is quite a humerous conker's bad fur day inspired one that me and 2 of my friends are working on)

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LESS CHAT MORE SCREENIES.
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Project Name: WIP
coding: 70%
maps: 20%
models: 80%
textures:25%
sounds: 10%
music:0%

total game: 65%
as said by Ermes this game is a big medal contender

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Having problems on exporting via 3ds max 5 so the progress is very SLOOOOW.

Title: Rebirth
Prgramming: 50%
Models: 40%
Textures: 25%
Sounds: 1%
Music: 00.0%
Concept: 90%
Designs: 75%

NOT COMPLETE: 100%

The game's kinda not so good, though... But I'll concentrate on the presentations... I wish I'll win for at least 10th place...

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Still in the design phase, lol. But I work better under pressure

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Mine is 0% complete, and i dunno if i'm even gonna start. But i think i have a good idea. Oh yea, and i have some of the models.....the alien ones.

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still creating my editor (80%) but once that's done it'll take me minutes to create stages! then i have to focus on the gameplay

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Whole thing only about 5% done but progress is speeding up a bit now. Still haven't decided what game is to be yet until I try some more experiments but looking like a first person shooter / puzzle / adventure game!

My biggest problem is I've just got purchase orders on some serious work committments and wages are more important to me that a compo but hopefully I will still have enough free time to finish.

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Ive just started mine a simple but interesting game.

Game Design done
Sound FX Done
Modelling Done
Other art work Partial
Programming not started
but I`m not worried.

Should be done on time. Though I`m not sure wether I`ve got space for another machine at the mo.

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Project Name : X-Truder

but I'm not sure having enough time to finish it in time . . .
Working hardly on level editor ( nearly finished )

( I'll tell more later about it )

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About done with the collision and graphics side of the engine, still to make a lot of models and add most of the gameplay. It is looking pretty sweet though .


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Totally trashed my other projects. Started a new one today, but it's looking so good, I don't think I wanna push it for the alien competition, otherwise it won't reach it's full potential.

http://curvedbasic.dbpcommunity.com/First%20Public%20Shot.JPG

I'll just post a link for now, rather than the huge image. Also, I only started today, so C&C and ask all the questions you want, but I really don't know what direction I'm going for yet.(As in Compo. or not.)



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Hi !!!
Do you remenber me ??? No, i am not the alien

I am a little frenchy boy lose in the space of Dark Basic !!
I tests to make game for the contest ,there is no time to me to do all that I want, but that will have to be enough to make games liking!

so :
title: Gigahertz race
Prgramming: 60%
Models: 80%
Textures: 80%
Sounds: 60%
Music: 100%
Concept: 100%
Designs: 60%

I saw the screens shot of various plays and I cried during 3 weeks.
Now I cannot any more programmed the eyes full with tears: ' (

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Two projects - I have trouble focusing on one, I get bored too easily and end up not finishing stuff. Board game/FPS game:

Design: 100%/100%
Programming: 85%/65%
3D Models: 100%/100%
2D Graphics: 100%/90%
Sound: 0%/50%
Level Designer: --/75%
Levels: --/10%

Hoping to get at least one completely finished
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About 40% done but stuck in gamming hell thanks to coursework delaine!!! Have a felling it won't be fished in time. (Dam team Project!!!)
It called Blood Feud and it 2.5 d scrolling platform beat-um-up.
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My title, "Earth Invaders", is coming along swimmingly. My game is about 80% strategy, 20% story.

Concept/Planning = 100% complete
Programming = 30% complete
Sound = 10% complete
Models = 30% complete

I am planning on releasing 2 versions of the game. One in DarkBasic Pro for the competetion, that will use some of the new features, and the other in DarkBasic Classic, which the other 98% of the computer users on our planet can actually run at a decent framerate.
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Mines i hav only just started and it dont hav a name yet

Concept Work: 90%
Design & Research: 25%
Programming: 15%
Modelling: 8%
Sound Effects: 20%
Music: 20%
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I'm probably about 60% done. I need to design some of the levels, but the loading engine is complete, so the levels won't take long at all.
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i pleased myself today!
i actually made progress! which worries me somewhat i've been here before, and just dumped the game in the "will never finish bin" but i feel different! i might actually complete it! i just need some opinions...
do you think its acceptable to use the alien model as a power-up? it will be on screen alot of the time and i'm sure i can write a clever splash screen as to why it needs to be a powerup the only problem is thats all it will be, it won't be used anywhere else


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Got some work done on it!!!! Should start soon on the level desinger.
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I don't think that'll pass.
Unless the powerup turns you into an alien.

...and like that; he's gone...
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Titel : kissy kissy
Progress : 10 %
Problem : I didn't do much since september, because of school
Promise : Even if the compo is finished, I'll continue this one, I like the idea.
Done : main character moves and level-editor

"Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop." - Lewis Carroll
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Name: "ALien Missions 1: The Plague"
As for the main stuff, I am almost done with the AI. After that, all I have to do is make the rest of the levels add in the story and polish it off.

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2D Platformer
Name: Gleeb
Level Format: 100%
Level Editor: 2%
Graphics:75%
Game Engine: 2%

As you can see I'm well behind schedule.

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Name: Earth Attacks
Graphics: 5%
Gameplay: 20%
sound: 1%
engine: 30%

I have so far to go yet.

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I dont know why I waited this long but im gonna start programming today Trent Is a third person shooter, starring our little alien, Im not really worried about getting it out for the Alienware competion its more about getting in shape for Shaman Knights.

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Graphics: 0%
Sound: 75%


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I've gone back and forth on whether or not I should post something here. My feelings say that I won't make it in time...

Name: Alien Marathon
Design: 98%
Engine: 10%
Graphics: 4%
AI: 0%
User Interface: 90%
Map Editor: 1%

I have a splash screen, working menu, some roads, a skybox, and some aliens running around (including one that the user can control with keyboard, or mouse).... joystick code is there but not hooked up yet.

I am bound and determined to finish this sucker though (even if it takes till December 2004!!)

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my project is somehow still at about 80%, despite many hours of progress. I keep adding features, and so I don't really make any forward progress in terms of completion

what are you all doing for sound effects? they seem the hardest to get easily......
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i an just uesing the ones you get in DB and DBpro it to hard to make them your self if you do't have the softwear or the now how.

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You'd be surprised how many sound effects you can make with free software, a cheap microphone (like £2), and your mouth.

For example, blow on a microphone then speed up the sample and you get an explosion. Alien style squidgy noises can be made easily too, just experiment - that's how the pro's do it so it's good enough for us IMO. In fact, a lot of the sound effects in Halo were done with a mic and mouth noises.

There's always little effects you can do at your desk, clicking pens, erasors bouncing, rulers twanging etc etc etc - use your imagination.


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Started a totally new entry this last Wednesday.

Genre: SideScroller
Design:55%
AI:1%
Collision:5%
World/Levels:10%
Menus:85%
Weapon System:1%
Art/Concept:40%
Models:20%
Textures:20%
Sound:0%
Cutscenes: (20%) 1 of 5 finished
Significaint Alien Usuage: Yes
Demo Release: December 18th
Screenshots: Not yet.
Overall:23.45% complete
Notes: Progress has gone very smoothly for only 3 days work. Currently have 3 more days off of school, so hoping to complete weapons and collision. Demo will be released Dec. 18th regardless of current state.



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Decided to start having just read this thread and realised how many people were just starting again (or for the 1st time).

Concept: 1% Im thinking aliens, animals and fast transport. I also want it inside - hmm.
Graphics: Well i have Cart Shop and a 15 day trial of gamespace which ill start soon so ill say 5%
Gameplay: 100% My games never have any
Sound: 100% Just gotta find em

uk.geocities.com/maniacimagine check it out. ill soon be formally opening it.
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Updated from last post.

Genre: SideScroller
Design:85%
AI:1%
Collision:35%
World/Levels:30%
Menus:90%
Weapon System:5%
Art/Concept:50%
Models:30%
Textures:30%
Sound:0%
Cutscenes: (40%) 2 of 5 finished
Significaint Alien Usuage: Yes
Demo Release: December 18th
Screenshots: Not yet.
Overall:36% complete
Notes: Wow, I've come a long way. Added 1 new obstacle(land mine), and 1 new power up(speed boost) Just got basic collision done today. Now able to detect the new powerups, and keep ship in designated area. Tomorrow/This week I'll start working on some enemies, AI, and the weapon system. Finally, I'm unsure if their will be 5 cutscenes. Really was an estimate, and will just depend on how many missions I add.

Hope your entries are shaping up as well.



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Oooooooh, I am very sorry. I have sinned. In my last post on this thread, I said:

Quote: "I am planning on releasing 2 versions of the game. One in DarkBasic Pro for the competetion, that will use some of the new features, and the other in DarkBasic Classic, which the other 98% of the computer users on our planet can actually run at a decent framerate. "


You see, my game used two cameras. I took the second one out to test something, and it almost doubled my frame rate.

And because DBC can't use multiple cameras, my game ran faster in DBC. So, I just assumed that Pro was slower than DBC. Now I am convinced that DBPro is the only way to go.

TGC - I am so sorry - I am not worthy! May I never utter such foolishness as long as my fingers can type out code.
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My game runs faster in DBC.

Alien Rampage ---->>> http://www.geocities.com/alienware_competition <<<---- All the cool kids are playing it.
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Without worrying about percentages (HTF are you guys working them out, how do you know when somethings finished!) - weapon handling is pretty much done, bullets are done, rockets, grenades, all done. Still to setup weapon handling for vehicles, but it's like a few minutes work with the way it's organised. Particle engine is working and looking cool - shoot an alien and the spurt green goop from wherever they were hit, you can now park a jeep on top of them to keep them from getting up again!, ''You like that? - bleed you alien mofu's!!'' - sorry, just been waiting a long time till I could kill them aliens, they'be been battering lumps outta my dudes for weeks!.

It should run pretty smoothly too, despite the 230 level collision checks per loop! (it's cool, have my own collision system) - that's before worrying about the 8000 possible alien collision checks!. In real terms there's upto 32 aliens and 4 characters, each with a shadow, and at least 6 collision tests per loop. Thank god for linear interpolation!.


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I'm using really simple collison in my game (30 aliens).
It's just the circle theorum and two for x = 1 to 30 sections

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Hmm, I hope you don't mean something like:
For a=0 to 30
For b=0 to 30
dist=distance#(obj pos.... etc
'Do whatever
next b
next a

If your using that style of collision, I strongly suggest using a collision check array. If you have an array called Alien_col, dimensioned with the number of aliens you have, you could do something like:

For a=0 to 30
Alien_col(a)=-1
For b=a to 30

if Alien_col(b)=-1
dist=distance#(obj pos.... etc
if dist<30 then Alien_col(a)=b and Alien_col(b)=a
endif

next b
next a

Reducing 900 checks by a great deal, even if all your aliens are stuck together it'd still be a lot quicker. It assumes that when a collision is detected you will affect the movement of the alien, like by stopping it dead or reducting the speed or moving backwards.


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I've got this:


It seems pretty quick, the game is still hitting its capped FPS.

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Ahh, that looks ok, however you could still change the FOR NEXT bit to be quicker, like:

for t = 2 to 30
for p = t to 30

means 225 checks instead of 784 - worth checking anyway, if it still works then it helps your games smoothness on low spec PC's.


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OK so how many of you think you'll actually meet the deadline?

I'll be going home for christmas (i live in Japan) so I have to get my project (the UFO Catcher thing) done by 12/24... which means I better get it done this week. But I'm basically there, so I think I'll have a complete game for the deadline.

how about everyone else? will you have a complete game (as originally planned) ready, or are you having to sacrifice features for time?

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You always have to sacrifice features for time - I tend to work until I run out of time. I have most of the engine done, so I'm working on levels and media just now. I still have to sort out enemies bullets, but the actual bullet handling is done and working well (wait till you see the aliens head explode!). I'll definately have a compo entry and I hope to see everyone else get finished in time too - should be a really cool compo considering the variety of game types.


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Posted: 18th Dec 2003 11:42
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I strongly recommend you release a demo Van.
Have a thread for suggestions only (not "Wow! I love the trees!!" posts) then, really near the deadline, add in the best suggestions/ fix bugs that were found.

My game at least doubled in quality after posting it on the forums and taking suggestions.

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