Abscencia

Post by **DarkAuron** » Tue 30 Jan, 2007 8:14 pm

I joined TSA (Technology Student Association) at my school a few months ago, and have been working on a 3d adventure game in DarkBasic Pro for the Video Game Design competition. Work has been slow, but I thought I'd let you guys know what I've been up to.

The main premise is that a girl named Rydia is traveling in space with her flying pig that she built, and is trying to get to planet TSA (Reasons for the name of the planet is because we don't want it to look like the game was stolen from some game company). Along the way, the pig's wings fail to continue flying in space, and they crash land onto a moon of planet TSA, called Abscencia. This moon orbits planet TSA, and a perfect eclipse hovers in the sky on this moon, which causes strange distortions of life on the moon.

As you play through the game, Rydia gains core abilities, the first being tentacle hair gained from battling with an octopus boss. Her pig is used to do multi-tasking puzzles in the game, and eventually fly off the moon and make it to the TSA competition.

The real story wouldn't involved TSA, but her homeworld, and only because our teacher Mr. Barrett insisted on doing something obvious to prove we made it. So.. we altered the story as such.

Anyhow, it's still heavily in development, but here's a series of screenshots (which probably none of which will end up in the final game):

http://darkauron.dyshost.com/Images/RydiaReflection.jpg
http://darkauron.dyshost.com/Images/TerrainEditor.jpg
http://darkauron.dyshost.com/Images/PS_Octo.jpg
http://www.xenf.net/tsa/perspective.jpg

The game will be cel-shaded and have generally very strange graphics, creatures with detached limbs (like the octopus seen above), and lots of suprises.

trevmeister66 · Post by **trevmeister66** » Tue 30 Jan, 2007 8:34 pm

wow, those are really good!

i'm guessing the 3rd one was the first boss?

Post by **DarkAuron** » Tue 30 Jan, 2007 8:36 pm

Yeah, for the most part.

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Tue 30 Jan, 2007 8:46 pm

those are pretty cool man!

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Tue 30 Jan, 2007 10:13 pm

Cell-shaded is the best.

Floodkiller · Post by **Floodkiller** » Tue 30 Jan, 2007 10:32 pm

That looks pretty good so far! Can't wait to see how it progresses!

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Wed 31 Jan, 2007 1:22 am

Looks promising. Perhaps some fps action would make it more interesting? It's hard to beat headshot action, good storyline or not.

necro · Post by **necro** » Wed 31 Jan, 2007 3:48 am

neat, what is dark basic like to program in?

Post by **DarkAuron** » Wed 31 Jan, 2007 4:21 am

Anykey: Except the rules restrict it to E, and I don't believe any FPS has been able to fit under the E rating.

necro: If you've never done anything in 3d before, you'll find it easy to get into. However, theres an insane amount of functions.. and sometimes multiple functions fo r the same thing, just reworded. I would recommend it if you don't want write a 3d engine from scratch. However, Darkbasic Pro is very poor at doing 2D, so I only recommend 3D. Shaders are fairly easy to implement once you understand how DBpro uses .fx files.

Fresnel Water

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Wed 31 Jan, 2007 4:25 am

I remember when you started this, its very nice.

When is the deadline again?

Post by **DarkAuron** » Wed 31 Jan, 2007 4:38 am

Well regional and state competitions are somewhere in april/may, and if I get to national level, that'll be sometime in the summer at Nashville, Tennessee.

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Thu 01 Feb, 2007 5:25 am

[quote="DarkAuron"]Anykey: Except the rules restrict it to E, and I don't believe any FPS has been able to fit under the E rating./quote]

I beg to differ!
Remember that doom ripoff that the chex cereal gave away?
That was totally rated E.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Thu 01 Feb, 2007 6:00 am

If you were only able to shoot nerf rockets that only made the enemies angry ... maybe that would be ok

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crzyrbl · Post by **crzyrbl** » Thu 01 Feb, 2007 11:04 pm

I wish the projects in my school's game club looked that cool.

Post by **kv83** » Fri 02 Feb, 2007 10:05 am

tr1p1ea wrote:If you were only able to shoot nerf rockets that only made the enemies angry ... maybe that would be ok .

Shooting with flowers and candy and making people happy would be even better