[BETA] Alien Smash for Android is now in Open Beta Test! Pics, Trailer and Link inside!

Pdude2K7

Hello fellow devs!

After way too many design changes and much learning and tinkering myself and Ilya Nedyal ready at last to show the game off and get some feedback from the community.

The game was made in Unity and its about a little alien journeying through the galaxy in his uber-ship with you as the unseen overseer making sure he lives to tell the tale.








Download now: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.LoknarStudio.AlienSmash

Please watch the trailer, it speaks much better for the game than we can!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNaJkMmFMEI

If you played you can fill out this quick survey about the game: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IubQKHV1UxoDfENiF3O7Q69kjSnDVC18z1WfjESrz0o/viewform?c=0&w=1

Game website: http://www.aliensmash.com/

Any feedback would be more than welcome, thanks for checking it out!

Pdude2K7

Here's a few of the models we used. Since the ship was destructible we had it broken up into many parts, so many
of the panels in the image are detachable with interior geometry.




We're writing up a graphics optimization article about the game, in the meantime, here's a gif!

jose.fuentes

@Pdude2K7 those renders are beautiful are they done in unity? if so do you care to speak more on how set up your materials and lights?

Ilya Nedyal

JOSE.FUENTES We have used Vray render for the Hi-Poly shots. The lighting is pretty simple if you know Vray.


We've posted an article about optimizing graphics for Alien Smash in Unity. Have a look!
http://loknar.com/alien-smash-graphics-optimization-with-unity-engine/

jose.fuentes

awesome the article you wrote is amazing!  Will be good reference for the future!

jose.fuentes

i was reading your article, and if possible would like a bit more information or examples on the following:

"Since we wanted to keep draw calls to a minimum we used the simplest shaders we could.  For the most part they had a color map and a simple matcap texture to fake colored reflection."



So what are you doing to the shader in unity to get that reflective property?

Ilya Nedyal

JOSE.FUENTES
We used free MatCap shader for untiy, you can download it here:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/8221
The reflections are just painted on top of matcap texture, and don't have impact on performance.

jose.fuentes

Ilya Nedyal said:

JOSE.FUENTES
We used free MatCap shader for untiy, you can download it here:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/8221
The reflections are just painted on top of matcap texture, and don't have impact on performance.

Yes! this is awesome! Thanks!

jose.fuentes

Ilya Nedyal said:

JOSE.FUENTES
We used free MatCap shader for untiy, you can download it here:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/8221
The reflections are just painted on top of matcap texture, and don't have impact on performance.

Yes! this is awesome! Thanks!