Gods and Towers, Android tower defense game
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Last months I've been posting pictures of the characters and towers that I made for this game on the Lowpoly thread, now the game is released (as a beta for now) and I decided to create a specific thread where place all the pictures together.
I hope you like it, as always crits and comments are welcome.
Joe, the founder of Gundog Studios, has shared a link on this forum to anyone who want download the game for free to see it in action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QuNxaeeHSCQ
I hope you like it, as always crits and comments are welcome.
Joe, the founder of Gundog Studios, has shared a link on this forum to anyone who want download the game for free to see it in action
For those of you that want to see the models in action, feel free to download the Gods and Towers APK from:
www.godsandtowers.com/GodsAndTowers-0.6.04.apk
If you like it, please purchase it from the official source on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.towerdefensewars
Any comments, suggestions, issues you have are highly appreciated; send them to joe@gundogstudios.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QuNxaeeHSCQ
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Shame its £2 for a beta though
Looks good.
These models use just diffuse texture. Basicly I make a quick sculpting of the model to project an occlusion map and use it as base of the texture, in fact this occlusion is about the 80% of the texture work, with these models I almost just use photoshot to add flat colors. I use this technic because I like to sculpt but it takes more or less the same time that make a hand painted texture with a similar amount of detail, although this technic has some other advantages, like automatic seamless textures or correct the UV distortion.
I made the models and textures in the way that the programmer asked for, anyway in most of cases wouldn't be possible to use the same greyscale texture for all the models of the same type, because the texture is different depending which parts of the basemesh model is showing each unit, we tried to make that different models share the same mesh to instance them ingame (see the wires), and to do it we need to mask some parts of the mesh depending on the character/tower to they look different. Anyway the game got a good performance and decent framerate even on pretty old devices, the bottleneck in this case is more on geometry than on textures.
You can run the game on your smartphone if it is at least Android 1.6. On the description of the game you can read about performance:
This 3D game was designed from the ground up with performance in mind. It is designed to handle 100's of creatures/towers on screen at once. It was tested on 3+ year old devices on Android 1.6 such as the MyTouch 3G and runs fine on the lowest graphics settings. Phones that cannot play Angry Birds are still capable of handling Gods and Towers.
For those of you that want to see the models in action, feel free to download the Gods and Towers APK from:
www.godsandtowers.com/GodsAndTowers-0.6.04.apk
If you like it, please purchase it from the official source on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.towerdefensewars
Any comments, suggestions, issues you have are highly appreciated; send them to joe@gundogstudios.com
Again, great work Tucho, I am looking forward to working with you again in the future.
-Joe
"Gundog Studios"
I added your links on the main post to augment its visibility
Can I see a full-sized version of some of these textures?
Sure, I worked these textures at 512x152, you can see the dragon ones below
Free limited version