Iphone game I made lots of art for: Ultrablast!

urgaffel

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Updated this post with the new trailer!

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Pretty much what the topic says. I've been working on this with some friends for a fair while now and it's great to finally show it off to the world!

Website: http://ultrablast.net There's a quicktime version of the trailer on the website, slightly higher quality than youtube.

Trailer: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7guSDLQSLU]HD trailer on Youtube[/ame]

*sigh* stupid video... If you look at it on Youtube it's bigger and easier to see what's going on

We've also submitted it to the IGF Mobile competition so fingers crossed :poly128:

Game feature list:

* Use various weapons to exploit your enemies' weaknesses!
* Use gestures to unleash powerful attacks!
* Stack multipliers to beat the highest score!
* Strategic battles and fierce boss fights!
* Exciting story taking you to exotic places!
* Read about your enemies (and your friends) in the information database.
* Use the online replay system to see how others play!
* Achievements and statistics.
* Global ranking and web profiles.
* Amazing 16-track original soundtrack.

Not your usual 3d stuff but hopefully you will like it anyway :poly122:

Hazardous

This game looks awesome man! love these old raiden style shooters! so which stuff where you working on mostly ?

urgaffel

I've done pretty much all the art in the game apart from the portraits and a few random bits. It was then put in the engine by the coder who did some really cool things with it, making it look awesome

killingpeople

Looks great! Good luck with your IGF submission!

urgaffel

Thanks KP, we won't find out until January sometime I think which is way too long to have to wait...

jakelear

Looks great, can't wait to pick it up

Razorb

gj! good luck with igf bet it feels great to finally finish it eh .. how long did the project take you? did you use an already existing engine?

LoTekK

Razor, the coder did pretty much everything from scratch, as far as I'm aware, from the engine to the web backend for score/profile submission. He's a machine. Urg did an awesome job with the art; it looks really rad on the iPhone screen. My own (very) modest contribution was the character portrait stuff.

rooster

the pinky nebula cloud stage looks awesome

TWilson

Congrats and good luck!!

BUSYROBOT

I'd play that! Looks very fun! I'm sure this game will do well as a competitor! Good luck!

urgaffel

Thanks guys! We've got our fingers firmly crossed for the IGF Mobile compo.

I will post a link to the game when it's released, but can't say when that will be at the moment

Osman, the coder, has indeed done a great job like Tekk says, he's the brain behind it all. Story, level design, all the code, web backend etc. I just did the art and he made it look great in motion

urgaffel

IT'S OUT!

One coder, one musician and me did most of the work, two more artists (Erilaz and LoTeKk) helped out with portraits and a boss and design ideas (and testing. Oh so much testing). Have a look

Ultrablast - RetroFlux



App store link

Rick_D

You suck!

brandoom

Look awesome.

Love these style of games.. especially old school ones, like Raptor

I love the music in the trailer too.

myles

Really love the style
Is it all Sprite based or is some of it 3D?

royohz

Great stuff, man! Absolutely adore it.

woogity

this is awesome i love top down flight Sims really cool stuff!

blankslatejoe

nice work! Looks like a fun little game!

urgaffel

Thanks guys! It's all 2d with a 3d cheat for the ship tilting

Lots and lots of sprites were made in the process of making this game and if I remember correctly there's a grand total of 2 animated textures, the rest is code magic. The programmer made my stuff look so much better than it actually is

JonathanF

SWEET!! dude! I love these type of games! question..... you going to format it to be on the android phone as well? I really hope so!!! I could play this for hours!

conte

looks pretty cool, i like vibrant colors, but i'd hide out those black outlines on objects.

urgaffel

Jonathan, we're not planning on converting it at the moment since there's a lot of work involved. Sorry

Conte, too late

larolaro

Great work man, now you have to make something else!

SHEPEIRO

urgaffel- nice to see some art from you ;-) looks sweet, some nifty trickery going on

conte- black lines may be more of a design decision than art...really helps pop the objects out if theres a load on screen

Target_Renegade

Awesome work! The music is killing it also <--- in a good way

urgaffel

Laro, I know... Maybe next time will be faster?

Shep; Yeah, it's been a while since I posted anything art-related Almost never do any 3d at home anymore. This was a nice change from all them thar fancy normalmaps and shit.

Black lines help separate ships from bullets too. We also tried to make sure the ships wouldn't blend in to the background but on the rare occasion that they do, the outline helps.

Target_Renegade; glad you like it. We might have something to say about the OST some time in the future... Fun fact: the guy who made the music works as a teacher during the day

Ged

looks good! hope you can get the game noticed, I only just got an ipod touch and its staggering how much content is out there

bbob

Looking great!

urgaffel

Ged; Thanks, we're hoping we'll be able to break through the noise somehow. We've been lucky in Norway though, we got featured in one of their newspapers (Dagbladet) and we're doing well in the Norweigian iTunes charts! #2 in action, #3 in arcade and #4 in all games

bbob; thank you, it was fun to do some 2d art after working on next genny stuff all day at work

urgaffel

We've just released an update for Ultrablast and it's quite a big one (and awesome). To quote the blurb:

We have added the most requested features, such as a checkpoint system and new control options.

In addition, as an OpenFeint 2.5 launch partner, we have integrated many OpenFeint features which made Ultrablast even more awesome. Stuff like challenges, built-in leaderboards, and dynamic ranking display!

The new checkpoint system allows you to continue the game from any level you have previously unlocked, in other words any level you have reached. This also means you can go back and play a previous level to score higher, and it will be reflected on your total game score.

The new control options allow you to use Touch or Tilt mechanisms in addition to the existing virtual Joystick controls. We've also increased the ship speed, which may come in handy in the hectic battles. Of course, you'll now see the effect of those changes on the overall difficulty of the game. Get ready, pilots!

Don't have multitasking support? No worries! Your game will be automatically saved if an interruption occurs (such as a phone call), or if you quit the game by simply pressing the home button. When you relaunch, you'll be able to continue from where you left off.

Reviews are as always, more than welcome

(ps, tell your friends! )

LoTekK

Woot, new controls are a fantastic improvement. Definitely feeling the touch control scheme.