First status-report: Mechanics are down, now I'll have to make it not look terrible. At least there's still plenty of time.
Some boilerplate-dwarves with interchangeable heads, also here's a flat-shaded one.
I might be giving the theme, I'm going for away here. ;)
Yeah, and imgur-links
Progress 1.
Hey, reading your post now I found out that my idea is not original at all, but oh well, I already started. By the way you guys are doing great stuff.
So, my game is about defeating zombies before they touch you. By rotating the mirrors to reflect the light beam. Your attack damage increases with the amount of bounces.
I already have the programming part done. I still need to work with the zombies pathfinding part tho.
But I just started doing some art with magicavoxel, and I thought I could post some basic progress here.
Hope you guys like :D, sorry for my english
My game is going to be a simple 2d game where the player has a mirror that can deflect enemy attacks. I haven't actually started working on the mirror mechanic but I've made graphics for the player and mirror.
I think I'am going to post my progress here aswell :D
My first Idea was to make a story based game where you are part of an indian tribe that thinks that if you look into your own eyes through a mirror, you get traped in your own soul. Some day you accidentally look into a mirror and you get traped in your soul. There you need to fight your inner Evil so you can escape from there. Sadly that Idea is too big to do for me because I didnt got so much time this month (lot of school etc.).
So I now made a much simpler game, inspired by the old "Asteroids" game.
The game concept is the same: Shoot the Asteroids. The new thing is that the lasers you shoot get deflected by the walls so you need to be careful that you dont get hit by them.
The Movement, the shooting, the reflection and the basic asteroid movement is finished. All the art assets are not yet finished and are only prototypes.
This little project took wayyy long then i thought (because trying to make it prefect in my head) but i'm happy with it!
Looks amazing!
But u mentioned it took too long, so i got a little tip for you (you can use it or not, depens on what u wanan focus on and what u want to create in terms of game mechanics), which u already at least partially got yourself.
Keep the artwork level of items that do not have an actual function, like just standing around, low and put the time u gain into the important artwork (game chars, enemys, items u can actually use), because changing these later on can be much more work, than just changing some assets that have no function in terms of gamemechanics.
Thats a neat twist to the reflecting mirror ideas that a lot of us have. I like it a lot! I think you can make the environments progressively crazier (like using mirrors to ricochet bullets off other objects in the world, etc).
Tbh, I wouldnt worry about the name yet - get the basic mechanics working first and a name will come! (At least thats what Im hoping because I have no name or story for my game lol)
Just finished some animations for these guys and they look quite good together in game
Been really busy the last couple of days but I've made some progress, can now pick up and pull boxes and imported my character and some simple animations.
