RoboMinion; a game I've been working

osman

Hey guys,

So I was wondering if I should post this in P&P since it's not finished yet, or here, because it's available today.

You can preview it here on Desura: RoboMinion

(I will try to find out how to generate some keys to give to polycount, still new to Desura)

Anyways, me and a friend of mine have been working on a little 3D puzzle game for some time now. We mostly work in our spare time, and have recently pubslihed it on Desura. We are making use of the alpha-funding program there, to have a way to see what players like and what they don't.

Here is some screenshots, some of you might recognize it from WAYWO thread:





Oh and here's a video explaining how the game works. The game is still in alpha, so please don't hold back, do what you do best and tell me how to make it better Enjoy

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4yJ8W6VD9w"]RoboMinion Introduction - YouTube[/ame]

Macattackk

nice work! is it unity? id say it definitely needs a background, looks like its being rendered in marmoset which is kinda boring. might be cool to have some kind of extruded pillar that the level is on top of and some kind of parallax background behind it creating an atmosphere.

osman

Thank you, yes it's Unity. And a background is one of the first things on my to-do lists. It's very hard to come up with something interest, that does not steal attention away from the main board .
The pillar idea is something that might work.

Justin Meisse

maybe like a heavily DOF blurred factory or workshop?

osman

Yeah that might work too. One problem with that is, I'd have to either leave it out, or fake it in the iOS version.

Kwramm

love the style! ..and yes, chose a subtle background. Even though flat grey is a bit boring, it does push massive attention to the artwork!

ScoobyDoofus

Hey, that looks like a lot of fun. Reminds me of RoboRally(board game)

**purchased**

osman

Thanks guys, yeah I'll be experimenting with some backgrounds soon. Perhaps I could go with the heavy DOF and just keep something simpler to render for the iOS version, since the iOS doesn't have as much empty space anyway.

Justin Meisse

could just have an environment cube for IOS

osman

Yeah, that should be very cheap to render
I made a first post in our dev-blog btw, maybe someone is interested: http://robo-minion.com/coming-up-with-puzzles/

It's on how we come up with the puzzles, but I guess the title gave it away.