Announcing Galactic Bowling!!

Japhir

yay! the game i've been working on for a while is going to be released october 20th!

article:

GALACTIC BOWLING, The PC-Based Bowling Game Launches to Outer Space
Independent video game developer to release first-of-its-kind bowling game.
Dallas, TX, October, 1st 2008 – Perpetual FX Creative announces the release of Galactic Bowling, a video game developed for the PC. Powered by the revolutionary Vicious Engine®, Galactic Bowling delivers stunning, detailed graphics and fluid, lifelike game play.
Galactic Bowling will be the first title in the newly established Galactic franchise, and will feature eleven distinct characters, each with a unique look and personality. Boasting eleven levels of game play, epic cinematic storylines, and a challenging campaign, Galactic Bowling is an exciting new experience. Players will be transported around the Earth as well as a multitude of vividly-illustrated planets, all with exhilarating bowling lanes, special bowling balls, super moves, unlockables, secret characters, and "whammies" to disrupt your opponent's performance. Players can also join friends in a multiplayer mode that includes online matches with all in-game characters, levels, special moves, game types, and never before seen mini-games like “Turkey Hunt” and “Tilt”. Traditional scoring is available as well as an exciting new form called Battle Mode; similar to playing tug-of-war, each player uses their score as leverage against the other. Using a unique, fun, and easy control scheme, Galactic Bowling immerses players in a distinctive new experience for all ages.
Galactic Bowling will be available online via STEAM at www.steampowered.com. STEAM players will be able to earn 30 Steam Achievements in the game, including points for jumping a portal gap using the Nitro Ball, getting a strike during an Earthquake Whammy, and much more. Galactic Bowling is scheduled for release October, 20th 2008. For more information please visit www.galacticbowling.net.

About Vicious Engine


The Vicious Engine provides a comprehensive, easy-access suite of development tools that are accessible to all members of a software development team—from artists, to designers, to engineers. The Vicious Engine helps developers and publishers concentrate on game content rather than core technology.

About Perpetual FX Creative

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Perpetual FX Creative is an independent global developer, marketer, and distributor of interactive entertainment software games for all PC, Mac, consoles, and mobile devices. Perpetual FX Creative was established in 2005 with a cutting-edge worldwide development team sharing a broad range of expertise in animation, film, marketing, and commercial production, as well as vast video game industry acumen. For more corporate and product information, please visit our website at www.perpetualfxcreative.net.

I'll make some presentation shots of the model i worked on and post here soon . Jaco also worked on this one.



oh, and if this needs to be in general discussion in stead of here, please move it. i'll be pimping soon though.

Kovac

Aha cool stuff Japh; looks like you guys made very good use of Vicious!

Zephir62

Holy shit I thought you guys went under! The game really shaped up since I last worked on it a year ago, congrats

Gav

Congrats man

flaagan

Very neat, though I can't seem to get either of the trailers to show up. The Quicktime one plays audio but no visual, and the WMV one doesn't want to start downloading at all.

Jeremy Lindstrom

congrats!! so that's what they were recruiting for in cgsociety!! I tried but they weren't paying anything back in the day and wanted vray experience, which I didn't know at the time.

Geezus

flaagan fails at the int0rwebz. I got both to load just fine. Looks like a lot of fun, and I didg the style. Kovac is right...very good use of Viscous indeed

Jaco

Yay!! I worked on this too, did 8 characters and a shit ton of props, I'll post them as soon as I get the ok.

Japhir

I said so in the beginning of the thread Jaco . Great stuff man, loved seeing all the stuff that I hadn't seen before.

Here is a character i made:

Michael Knubben

It's encouraging to see how much your texturing has improved since you first signed up here!
Are you looking for crits on this at all? I realise it's done, but still...

Japhir

Crits are ALWAYS welcome . i probably won't implement them, since the game is already pretty much done, but i will learn from them for the next time. Thanks!

Jaco

Great stuff Japh, I really liked your texturing on this one.

Pedro Amorim

J A W E S O M E


see what i did ther?

Japhir

thanks guys! lol bitmap (jaws/japhir/awesome?)

I was given permission to post texture flats:

Pedro Amorim

:D hihihi

Emil Mujanovic

Whoa... this used the Vicious Engine? WOW! I had to use it for my last project and boy what a fucking pain in the ass! Definitely one of the worst engines I've ever had to work with.

But that aside, I like what you did with your character. Your stuff has improved a whole lot, dude. Great work.

-caseyjones

Kovac

Friggen excellent, I love this guy

Japhir

thanks guys .
casey: luckily i didn't have anything to do with all that i just modeled my stuff off of great concept art, then textured it, and then passed it on to the next person.

now everybody needs to buy it starting the twentieth, and i might become a rich man . making money off of your hobby rules :cool:

pliang

Lovely expression on his face, and yeah the texturing is pretty mint, if the art wasn't locked down could have used a little more love with the torn details.

Jeremy Lindstrom

was this the project Perpetual FX was working on via volunteers at CG Society!?

Dabeav098

Hello everyone,
My name is Jeff Bannister, I am the Online Marketing Director for Perpetual FX. I noticed that a lot of our animators are up on this site and I just wanted to direct you all to the latest trailer for Galactic Bowling. I also wanted to thank you for all of your hard work. We know this game is going to be a success and you are the biggest part of that.

Let everyone know that they can pre-order Galactic Bowling at a discounted price @ Steam

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Galactic Bowling Homepage

Thanks again, your work is appreciated

Jeff Bannister
Online Marketing Director
Perpetual FX Creative

Japhir

I finally got permission to post some very old work (January 2009!) online . Here's the monkey character I created for the supposed Galactic Bowling sequel (which I think never aired ).

So, in stead of creating a new thread for very old work, I decided to put it up here.

EDIT: oh crap, the texture is actually 512! I just scaled it down for the presentation and failed at using the text tool .

ScudzAlmighty

Holy Necro Japhir

He didn't get carried over but the wii version has some additional characters and levels so it's kinda like a sequel... kinda.

Japhir

Haha never saw that one coming! So my Kendra and Yeti hair updates are in the sequel as well! Yay. I wonder what happened to the shark dude. They asked me to provide 1028 textures after a couple of years, but I refused since I never got paid for anything and didn't want to invest a lot of time in repainting those textures at a higher res.

ScudzAlmighty

yeah they cut a few of the characters, my effeminate Dinosaur isn't there either

As far as I know the game was handed off to the Destineer guys for the port/sequel and I don't think anybody got paid for the steam version thanks to the whole xbox-live clause/debacle. Well except maybe Jaco, I know he was still working with 'em for a while. But whatever I'm not bitter

FAT_CAP

Oh wow - I did the werewolf dude as one of my first ever freelance projects. I'd totally forgotten that I worked on a character for this and never knew that it was finally released!

Japhir

Yeah I'm not bitter either. I think it's pretty cool to have made a character in a published game. (even though it* sucked tbh ).

EDIT: * by it i meant the game here.

Clark Coots

awesome characters! love the texture work and proportions of the shark