[Unity game] RM Arena

osman

[EDIT]
Alright, I'm finished with the game, it ofcourse needs some polishing and bugfixing, I've got 24h for that. I'm glad how it turned out for a 12 day project. You can download a PC build here:
DOWNLOAD
Controls:Arrows to drive and SPACE to fire.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ctiGs_aEs"]RMArena Final Gameplay - YouTube[/ame]

Hey guys, so I finaly quit my job because my contract didn't allow me to work on my own games. Long story short, I'm now working on my games.

I'll post my main game later sometime, but for now I'd like to show my Unity3d game for the recent contest. They can export to flash now, so they setup a contest for us, and the duration is only 14 days.

Anyways, I'm trying to keep up a blog about it, but I'm really not the blogging type I think, so I've posted all of the videso below.

Any questions/suggestions/crits are welcome

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcQo0dcqc8c"]RMArena Unity Flash contest game. - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt748oYI4Fc"]RMArena Tank model - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiPuYY1-sHM"]RBArena Muzzle FX - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLu74rF6Xi4"]RMArena First AI - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLBrzgrCOq4"]RMArena Bot Pathfinding - YouTube[/ame]

nrek

This is looking pretty awesome man, and bravo for breaking out and doing your own games. Best of luck with the contest!

Joseph Silverman

can you share the basic theory behind how your ai follows the player and pathfinds? I'm tackling similar issues in my game and doing a pretty bad job. Thinking of giving in to a simple check for obstruction/steering system.

osman

I assume you're using Unity too? If so, you can use the new navmesh feature . It is a unity pro only feature unfortunately.

You can either use their navmesh agents which will start walking automatically or if you want more control you could request a path using:

static function CalculatePath (sourcePosition : Vector3, targetPosition : Vector3, passableMask : int, path : NavMeshPath) : boolean

Joseph Silverman

That sounds awesome but i dont have the money for unity pro

thanks though man!

Remmers

Are those videos captured from the Flash Player?
Looks pretty solid so far good job! Will the gameplay be like the "other" tank games?

Good luck finishing for the contest

osman

@SupRore
I havent bought Pro either, I'm using the trial( asked for an extension). Who knows, I might win one, maybe also an idea for you to join the contest?
EDIT: forgot to mention that there are some free pathfinding libraries for unity you might want to try out

@Remmers
No video is captures from a windows build, I run the flash one every 3-4 hours to check if nothing is broken.
Overal it's stable, performance is good, but theres a couple of problems. For example, it somehow discard my custom shaders ad just applies the diffuse, and every sound I play, keeps playing on forever. And the quality is always forced to low in flash, I hope they fix this soon.

osman

Alright, heres some more progress.
I redid the AI( I had promised myself not to be anal about bad code etc, but I couldn't resist) and I added some weapons.
The video doesnt show them all, but theres regular cannon shots, heatseekers(homing?), shield, glue to slow them down, speed boost and mines. Those are the cliche ones I could think of, if I manage to finish this before the deadline, I'll add more.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPKx8MDXJlY"]RMArena Weapons - YouTube[/ame]

S_ource

Looks like a fun project and seames to work good and looks good, good luck.

Snader

Hope this isn't considered threadjacking, but do you reckon those pathfinding libraries and/or the navmesh are efficient enough to implement straight into a cellphone/tablet game?

Joseph Silverman

Snader, from my experience with unity so far i would assume they are. Pretty much everything in unity is focused on mobile-compatibility.

osman

Yeah, Snader, especialy the official unity navmesh, I'm pretty sure it'll run fine on the mobile devices( if used properly ofcourse)

And don't worry about threadjacking, always happy to help out. Also, I think it might be good to have a Unity thread @ technical talk perhaps? It seems like a lot of us use Unity.

osman

Alright, here's some heatseeking missles!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcU689Pvt4w"]RMArena Heatseeker - YouTube[/ame]

nicafornica

nice i want those cheat codes for that many rockets. Is coming out like a nice game. it would be cool if the tanks would fly off when hit.

osman

Here's an update: the AI works now, they shoot back etc, only have to do the enemy-waves logic and some GUI. Then hopefuly time for some polish and some extra art etc:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oydl2V-aiX8"]RMArena B&W 720 - YouTube[/ame]

osman

Aaand I've got my first GUI working: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f934_volh4"]RMArena GUI - YouTube[/ame]

Ged

game looks cool man! whys it all black and white now? is it just a post process test? I liked the fun colours.

Maph

Looks pretty rad man! Great work and kudos to you for taking the plunge to full time indie dev!
I liked the colors too, but I personally also like the B&W version. How about you keep everything b&w except for some crucial things? Like the player gets rendered with color, so are the enemies, certain interactive points in the environment, etc...

SupRore: Basic Pathfinding isn't all that difficult. I wrote a custom A* pathfinder for our game and it works perfectly fine. But if you want something more complex and don't want to shell out the money for pro, there's Path, A*, SimplePath, etc... Of course, if you want more then that like HPA*, then you're on your own.
AI on the other hand is stupendously annoying to write, and if you can go away with some 3rd party solution, do it.

osman

Thanks guys!

As for the B&W, I like color a lot, but in this case I've only had like 2-3 days to work on the art for the game, and by making it B&W I kind of hide some ugliness . I've hear mixed opinions so after the contest I will probably make a multiplayer version of this game, with proper art etc

@Maph, I could try it out, but I'm not sure if I'll have the time to do it, since I'll have to write some new shaders or change the art for some models. My personal deadline is in about 24 hours, just so that I have some time to fix bugs etc. So I'm wrapping it up and making it ready do play.

Here's a slightly new video:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIPtHFqhOro"]RMArena Sound GUI - YouTube[/ame]

osman

So you can try it out here if interested.
DOWNLOAD
Controls:Arrows to drive and SPACE to fire.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ctiGs_aEs"]RMArena Final Gameplay - YouTube[/ame]

JasonLavoie

osman, this is looking great! Congrats on seeing an idea to life man

konstruct

I was expecting a slow tactical shooter by the grainy black and white and the old timey tanks. Then when I jumped in I was surprised to see it was a super fast drifting shooter. Its really fun! I like how the crates not only giving you weapons but powerups as well.

mystichobo

Well, I keep going back to play a couple of rounds in between my internet browsing, so seems pretty good to me :P

The greyscale looks ok imo, would be cool to have some sin-city style colored highlights though. I'd be interested to see how it would look with maybe the vehicles retaining their colour or something?

The other thing that really mucked me up was being unable to turn while stationary, not sure if this is a design choice, but really threw me off when playing for the first time, got used to it now though.

Bring on multiplayer

osman

Thanks guys! What wave did you manage to get it :P ? I haven't tweaked the difficulty.

I will be rewriting this game from scratch in a proper way, once my other game is finished, and I'm planning on making it multiplayer vs and co-op.

I've got a lot of sleep to catch up, and then start working on the next game!

LoTekK

Got down to 3 enemies left of Wave 7 after a few tries

I second the suggestion to add splashes of color to certain things, just to draw the eye and introduce a bit of visual contrast.

osman

Wave 7, not bad! I was worried it might be too difficult hehe. Yeah, whenever I redo the game from scratch it probably wont be completely black and white. Maybe not even at all. It was just very easy to add SOMETHING to it, I didn't quite have the time make proper art for it

breakneck

pretty fun, and I like the visual style. good job!

konstruct

I`d love to see stuff like this In your game:

osman

konstruct wrote: »

I`d love to see stuff like this In your game:

Actualy, i already put that model in this game, but I made that tank for another game, so i removed it, to be safe.

S_ource

What will happen with this project now? And this was for some competition right? if the results are out how did it go?