Pirates of New Horizons "RELEASED" !
polycounter lvl 18
new trailer new public build we call it a preview not a demo but thats basically what it is ... and we are taking preorders now ... so show us some indie love and spread the word 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNxmACsGMCU"]Pirates of New Horizons Pre-Order Trailer - YouTube[/ame]
you can play it for free in your browser here:
http://www.piratesofnewhorizons.com/
I hope you like it ... there is a ton of sweat and blood of mine in this !
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNxmACsGMCU"]Pirates of New Horizons Pre-Order Trailer - YouTube[/ame]you can play it for free in your browser here:
http://www.piratesofnewhorizons.com/
I hope you like it ... there is a ton of sweat and blood of mine in this !
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It's really good and gave me 40min of nice smooth gameplay. I played with mouse/keyboard and I had no problems at all with that setup.
The only nitpicks I have about the game is the physics and animations are sometimes a little rigid, but overall, the gameplay was great, enjoyed that telegraph pole race as well!
I hope you can continue with it.
- Music and sounds in general way too loud to my taste and there is no volume slider.
- Why does the character get on her knees when she picks up the compass?
- Don't know if blocking works. Atleast there is no animation for it.
- How did the bad guys get inside the ships hull when the there are no holes and I was on the deck killing them the whole time?
- I managed to fail the platform jumping part twice and everytime had to start a new game because the character just falls indefinitely and does not die.
- Gamepad turns the camera way too slow.
- Why there's no 'load' when there are checkpoints?
Where does the game save it's settings?
Edit: argh @ javascript
are you using a gamepad or the mouse to click on the buttons ? and how far did you play before the menu broke ? or did it break on the splash screen?
we wanted to add that but didn't have the time
so that her face and the item are not covered by the conversation backdrop ^^ (which has to be there because unity doesn't support /shadows/outlines around fonts ... which means you have to pick a color for your font and hope that the backdrop of it is significantly different so that you can read it ! unless you add a background where you know the color and than you are safe !
blocking works and it has an animation !
i dont spawn guys down there so they can only have followed you there !
can you please tell me where exactly ? i just replayed the game and i definitely have a killzone under each level !
can be tweaked to your hearts content in the options menu ! i figured thats an intuitive place to put it !
thats where you reappear when you die ! loading and saving was canceled because of the short length of the prototype .... and well .... time constraints again ! i would have loved to have it in there though
i dont know ... gotta ask unity
java what ? we wrote everything in c#
i just played it and filled out the survey. i think it's a very good prototype. it plays smooth and leaves a very positive feeling. i hope you will get the chance to make it happen!
That intro was a real bummer. very long and no where near the art quality or interactivity of the game. Seems tacked on as though the gamer "needs-to-know" all this information they don't. "Hey here's all these character and things going on, wait they're all dead, forget that war with pirates and a navy now it's you and some aliens" Just no point. Oh and when that eyeball was looking in the window everybody got scared and ran from my computer.
After that, the game was great. Beautiful, colorful worlds with lots to do.
You guys could rename this game "No Health" because there is no health anywhere. I was near dead for most of the game. I broke all the barrels, found tons of stuff, but almost never any health to survive.
Camera is too close for platforming. Most places you're supposed to jump are more of a blind faith jump that it's the way to go since the compass is pointing that direction.
The grappling hook is REAL tricky. Most of the time it'd stay on-target with the previous link, and I'd go back or die. Had to get my girl directly under the next link to target it.
That said, I really enjoyed it, and want to play more. In fact, I'll probably play it again later to really explore everything. I mostly plowed through this run.
EDIT: btw, EVERYONE should play through this game to see lava island. Worth it!
I figured why it does that. At some point, I have accidentally unbound attack from Mouse1 and because you use the attack button as the menu trigger, menu didn't work.
Wouldn't it be better if you just showed the item along side the text? Like text above and big compass rotating underneath it or something.
I was so sure I bound it to my pad but I guess I didn't. Couldn't test it when I wrote the post because of the menu bug. Now that I got the menus working again, I tested it and it's ok.
Could be. They didnt follow me back out though.
It seems I can fall through the killzones if I spam the jump button.
It's sometimes difficult for me to see things...
That wasn't pointed at the game but polycount forums. I wrote my reply in notepad++ and tried pasting it to the quick reply box, it came out wrong even though it looked good in the reply box. Had to enable javascript to retain line breaks.
Why does the character stop all horizontal motion when I press the jump button? Makes jumping long distances kinda hard when you have to press the jump button as fast as possible.
Your game has great potential. The world can never have enough good action adventure games.
I played and enjoyed it very much. It's a great step , and I wish you a lot of luck with it.
Excellent artwork in there, I haven't downloaded It but from the pix I say good job, It looks like fun.
If I get any time I will try It.
@$!nz go and play it man you ! this thing should run in just about every machine out there ! (unless youare on linux !)
http://kotaku.com/5657726/the-game-for-anyone-who-ever-wanted-to-be-a-sky-pirate
and the editor seams to like it !
/edit also if you want to help
http://digg.com/news/gaming/blog_archive_prototype_released
a digg would be appreciated !
Found a bug tho ^_^
When your falling of a ship / cliff or anything to the nothingness. IF you hold down block you don't die and keep falling and falling and falling and falling hehe. And you have to exit the game and start over.
Camera could use some tweaking, I think. Felt a bit rigid. Maybe add a bit of inertia+momentum to it? Also, when breaking items, the last attack in the combo (rising sword strike) occasionally left me on top of them so I'd have to walk back off them to strike them again.
Looooved the final payoff
It was great fun to play so far. I've also filled in the survey. Too bad motion sickess stopped me from completing the game :shifty:
I liked how the enemies also hurt eachother while fighting. Not sure if this was intentional though.
One odd thing I noticed was when you jump into the water you can jump again without even ever landing in the water.
The combat was a bit simple, and grappling hook physics were a bit meh, but otherwise I loved exploring the world and running around.
I've started playing online but was kicked to the survey several times (switching browser window, switching between full screen and windowed)
will play the download version when I got some time
yeah there is alot of ugly hard coded behavior in the untiy webplayer as far as "focus" and "locking of cursor" and "input" goes ... lets just say it was a constant source of headaches !
Lava island was awesome
Had to go to window mode because i got motionsick. I don't know if it was the camera movement or the character speed. I often get this in fps but this was the first time in an 3dactiongame.
However, I think it's really cool to give out such a prototype to get people interested. I'm sure excited to see where this project goes, cause it felt really raw and rushed in many areas.
Also your rock texture that i had in my reference folder for such a long time, it looks horrible in the town scenery - so much strong contrast to the other beautifully chosen colors
For the actual playing part. I consider myself to be categorized underneath "casual player" meaning I got stuck in zelda windwaker cause the dungeon levels were like a maze for me
I had a hard time understanding what i had to do in the end scene. Opening all these gates. Maybe i skipped over some infos
But I think the goals could have made a bit clearer with lighting choices.
I closed the game twice and restarted after reading the spoilers in here
I demand a pictured Walkthrough, so i get to see lighthouses and ninja race !
Also the credits made me drool. All these mapcore people involved ^^
I can't find a way onto the last lighthouse. Trying to jump from the windmill to the lighthouse but fail
I don't know, I'm german and could go on rumbling on the negatives for pages but I don't think that's what your after, so I'll gather all my dusty cheerleading skills and say, great great work so far, but lots and lots and lots of work ahead of you guys considering all the competition in this field ! I'll keep my fingers crossed this all works out for you talented lot in the end and you'll be able to bring the game to another quality level !
edit: found the ninja race. Can it be won at all ?
I WON I WON I WON I WON - WOHOO
Also for the camera I'd love to have a system like windwaker, where you can centre the character with one button, and freely rotate with another pressed button. That be kinda neat to have !
And the character scale is kinda off - or let's say some doors or vice versa. It looked kinda odd. Some places are perfectly fine, and others have huge doors, stairs and ledges, which make her look like a dwarf. But I don't like her too much anyways ^^
i dont understand what you mean by "freely rotate with another pressed button" i beat windwaker and the only buttons i remember was this "camera behind link/strafelock" which would alss target enemys if there where any at the center of the screen !
is that what you mean ?
and yeah of course lots and lots and lots of more work awaits
warby: only things bugged me was the strange mouse look camera (strange jumps in it.. like the view-angle calculation was buggy ?!)
and the grappling hook linking to the last crystal instead of the next ( I always needed to double jump to get far enough to hook on to the next crystal)
edit: I had to search what to do next in the big room with big door after fighting the alien breed
but you are the first person to report that the cam is not perfectly smooth ? can you explain this in more detail ? is it frame-rate that drops that makes this happen or whats going on ? cam is perfectly fine for me and always has been ! since day one !
just played through the game, filled the survey too, overally good work, I found as you said earlier that the grappling hook gameplay needed a lot of work, same with fighting gameplay feedback ( you can pretty much just stand and hammer the action button) the physics when jumping out of the grappling hook are quite weird too, also, please, drop the chain attached grappling hooks, it just make sit even worse (it's overall a bad design decisions imo since it makes things totally unpredictable and physics, unless perfectly controlled are usually a bad factor in that kind of gameplay.
jumping physics are too floaty aswell, but that can be fixed as you go
Keep up the good work, I really loved the exploration gameplay in the town
edit: one thing that really hit me too was the weird scale of doors/building in the town, they are totally not consistent with character sizes (even adult), plus the kids proportions are not at all depicting 8-10 years old kids IMO, they look more in their mid teens than 8-10 ish as their size compared to doors make me think, which makes the scale look even more awkward. again, look at zelda for good kid body shape and style
I DL'ed it and will give it a go tomorrow.
As I said in the questionnaire, there's a bit of polish needed, guys, but you've got a damn enjoyable game here. Nice work, fellas.
Maybe I don't remember it correctly, though.
Either way, I think you know it for yourself that the camera system could need some slices of work
Hope you keep us updated in this thread.
Played through it again today, to impress my GF with my awesome gaming skills. But I still can't get on top of that lighthouse next to the windmill
I can definitely see this being a full game. It really reminded me of playstation and 64 era platformers in all the best ways. one thing I found a pain was the way you change inventory Items - Often i would have the bombs out for a fight, then forget to change to the grappling hook before plumetting to my doom :P so controls need ironing out, but I had so much fun exploring and playing that I didn't really mind!
Look forward to seeing more of this project!
but now i have to do a bump of my own for something important
http://www.indiedb.com/events/2010-indie-of-the-year-awards/top100#vote13086
indie db is having one of those game of the year award things and obviously we dont stand a chance against minecraft but lucky us minecraft is considered a released game and ours is an "upcoming" game. those are separated categorys and you can vote for both ! so id urge everyone to vote for us if you liked the game !
It's gorgeous
Keep us posted and if you can show off more artwork please do.
thanks man ! the trick is to use a fuck ton (or two) of verts ^^
added announcement teaser for convenient last thread page clickyness