Alittle Work within the last 3 days. Still have a lot to do.
Don't have a video this time around as I'm going to bed now but I'll leave this update log here.
Created a shield system with two different types of shield, shield can be materialized by using a defensive skill and last for a few seconds only, normally they stay on the left side of the player but they can be moved in front which also disables shooting, increases the time the shield stays active and destroys the shield at the end. The laser shield reflects all laser attacks but is weak against physical attacks and breaks easily and the physical one is the reverse of that.
Added some little extra "animation" (example: when you switch to top down mode the weapon which is normally on the right side of the player smoothly moves to the top and becomes like a head) and added an experimental sidescroller game mode which might not make it to the finished version but I have some cool level ideas so I'll try pushing it.
The weapon has also gotten a new attack type other than a simple laser, you can now throw it at enemies (that will come in handy against enemies that can't be damaged using lasers, however you lose your weapon until it comes back to you which takes a varying amount of time depending on the distance it traveled).
Tomorrow I'm planning on implementing some melee hits with the weapon and starting work on the AI.
Thanks to being stuck on that reflection problem there's less progress being made that I'd like, but I did recently foray into some basic UMG stuff, the buttons there actually work and you need to be selecting the light shaft to even fire the ray and it stops when another button is selected (basic radio button behavior as well. I just need to get the projectile for the fireball working, and then set up objects for those spells to hit and I can safely call the base prototype done and can move on to asset creation lol.
"I like how it's looking! still one bug (which if anyone can help me out with would be amazing, i can't seem to figure out how to change the direction of the players velocity when they go through the portal.... "
Im going by memory here, but if I recall correctly, you can Get Player Controller -> Set controller rotation. Then use the portal's yaw to set the controller yaw and you should be facing the right direction when you go thru the portal :)
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.
so... it seems I've decided to join as well, even though i've missed the first third and originally didn't want to.
but then, yesterday night, I suddenly got an inspiration of how I would make one of my recurring nightmare dreams into a (not)game, and was like "yes, that's interesting and small, contained project, I've got to do that". and then I realized it fits the theme... so I figured, why not, let's try to jam it!
So the game will be a recreation of a nightmare I've been having since I was 8 years old.
...figuring out why it fits into the topic of "Mirror" will be... kind of equal to figuring out the point/message of the game.
So far I've got nothing specifically for it, but it's going to be low-poly, so previous night I've been playing around with/learning to make low poly stuff (related to a different game I'm prototyping), so to make this post not so boring by only having text, here's an unrelated screenshot of my low-poly experiments. Update with jam-relevant screenshots will follow next week :-D
(for anyone curious - the glow is animated, and the way it looks in motion is how I've always imagined Octarine, the color of magic from pratchett's Discworld, this neon, eye-pulling non-light, flowing around things as part liquid, part heavy gas...)
The progress on assets is going alright, just finished the first one, it took this long mostly cos I was figuring my way through Zbrush and Quixel and whatnot. Came out looking quite good imo!
I'd like to have made it more cartoony, but I dunno enough about Quixel to make that happen. If I have time I'll try to rejigger it, but if not, I can live with this.
looks pretty good :)
"I'd like to have made it more cartoony, but I dunno enough about Quixel to make that happen."
not in software but in how you do it. less detail and color variations/granules, less reliefs, more flats. would need to be drawn that way though, playing around with just effects on the finished texture might achieve the goal but i don't know how exactly to tell you, i'd have to play around with it for myself
Oh of course, what I meant was I don't have the know-how with the program to achieve such results, and I know it can be done, it would just need some custom materials and stuff like that. I frankly also dont have the time to figure out such considering how far into the jam we are lol. I could go and completely hand paint each texture myself and make it look exactly how I want it to, but with time being a factor, and Quixel being able to knock out a result like that in about ten minutes of fiddling, I'm happy with how it is currently. A more cartoony look is just a luxury at this point lol.
yes, sorry, should have understood or at least looked at what quixel is (btw wow, looks pretty powerful), but i was already too caught up in my own thoughts, my fault O:)
Great video, it's been a huge motivation boost! It's also amazing how you guys came up with those great looking games that all look and feel unique!
Here's my take on the subject. It's my first time making a game (so it's my first jam as well), so I'm still in a very early stage, but hopefully I'll be able to catch up and finish it on time.
Was initially excited on doing a top down puzzler
However UE4 isn't really the easiest at making grid-like puzzles (or maybe its just my inability) and after cracking my head on making a pushable block with gravity and collision, I gave up :P
Pivoted to doing a FPS instead as I was totally new to animation and 3D art. Anything with physics and inexact puzzles were going to be easier to implement in UE4. Also totally inspired by @coquigames!
The gimmick is using the light gun to zip around at light speed but at a limited range, and how that ties in with the theme is that mirrors increase your range further. Still very early stage though, and 2 weeks feels like a really short time!
Also learnt to use Geforce experience and Shadowplay to capture video footage, and it is really cool!
have you looked into spawning two players that handle their own movement separately and the camera just switches the possessed player (using the possess node: https://docs.unrealengine.com/...) hopefully I was helpful :D
I had a similar issue a while back when I was switching between 3 characters. Basically the issue is that the movement mode for the Character class is static, so its shared between all characters on the level. So as you switch characters, the new movement mode is propagated to all children of the Character class (see the floating below).
The only "real" fix would be to modify the character class itself. I ended up restricting the switch to when the character is standing (Movement Mode Walking). Does your solution fix the issues on the vid?
I find this extremely impressive, and not just because (as I'll post a video about later tonight) I've been banging my head against the wall for three days trying to get my laser to work in reflecting like that, and stopping when it hits something nonreflective. ;-)
Seriously, that already looks very fun to play.
progress. the map now has full mouse over aware positions. So the correct position shows where you are pointing (the red map cell). Also the mirrored selection is shown as a cyan outline
models have been tweaked. there is now
- a rock (can't pass)
- grass (miss one turn)
- fence (blocks 2 exits
- tree (blocks one exit)
that looks great. But I imagine it takes a lot of time to make something like that. I do something different. I make only rough models right now and add the details later when I have finished everything. That way if I don't have enough time at the end some models don't have details but it doesn't matter as much.
Not sure what is happening, but I think the i counter in the for loop might be altered halfway (reduced?) resulting in the for loop not ending as it should. You might want to print out i to debug? Also its not clear how the program flow for the mirror effect via the break statement is working. Perhaps you want to post some of the code used?
Thanks! I posted in another thread with a link to my GitHub with the code, and adroitconceptions was able to help me solve the problem. (The logic of the loop was completely messed up.) There was a lot of extra stuff in there - manipulating the positioncount and so on - that was absolutely unnecessary.
Thanks! My current plan is actually along the lines of the player being quite fragile - the AI will be equipped with crucifixes, holy water, stakes, etc. and if you get close to them with them aware of your presence they'll charge at and attack you (one-hit kill), forcing you to rely on stealth. At the very end of the video you can see I dropped down in the reflected world because there was no light on that side, allowing me to get right up to the target before switching back to feed / win the level.
Well, I think that I took on a challenge that was too big for me. I tried to learn SO many new things about making games while I was still in school and when I finally got to the summer break, there were only a few days left on the Game Jam. I think that I'll post the very small and incredibly buggy game that I managed to make but I had planned something mutch bigger.
Aww :( your game looked so cool. I understand it turning into a chore, I scrapped my old game because it was boring. And I also understand terrible time management and also (for me atleast) an unclear vision.
Does your game have a menu? You could release an unfinished version.
Your work was both creative and interesting, best of luck to your schooling!
Didnt see your reply until now (sorry) :C
What you could do is:
1. Post just one long level and that would cut off so much work.
2. (if gameplay is feeling like a boring walking simulator) you could make "keys" that when touched deletes itself and adds 1 to a keys counter; so when the spiders linecast hits a "door" the player can click and delete it which removes 1 from the key counter, that would make levels not a strait path and I highly recommend it. :D
Extremely sorry for the late reply :C
LeCluck straight into battle ChickenRoyale:
2 sheep remaining, 2 sheep already cooked!
Aliens invade the planet! With their superior laser weapons it should be easy to enslave humanity, is it? ... Not if they fight against mirrors!
Hi fellow game makers!
I'm working on a little game where you can reflect laser shots back to the attacker.
Some other participants had the same idea, but I didn't want to change it. I use the game jam as a reason to build a little game engine by myself to learn more about the inside mechanics. I use the LWJGL to get access to OpenGL from Java. Also, I started to learn Blender and made the terrain, the helicopter and the lighthouse with it.
Until now I added the following:
Unfortunately, I will not finish the game until the deadline, but I learned a lot!
Finally I've finished, and I'm also finished. LOL
https://adamstrange.itch.io/mi...
There are probably bugs and stray sheep. Sound has been included but not what I really wanted as the code just wasn't finished properly - No Libraries to help me, all custom written ;/
All and any suggestions welcome and I'll even tell you about the code if anyone want's to know...
Phew - I'm off for a lie down in a darkened room now....
...some people are finished.
...some people have 4 days left to do 60% of the project that's about 10%-20% of the size of others' projects in here anyway...
man, i hate bipolar disorder.
also, pretty good artstyle, looks like those whacky cartoony high-production-value flash games from around 2006-2012
(going by the menu screen at least, can't distract myself by playing stuff right now)
I finished my entry Miflected some days ago. Miflected is a puzzle game about mirrors you can play in your browser. You can play 20 different levels or create your own in the level editor.
Finally finished! Play Reflector here I'll hopefully make a video about it tomorrow. For now I'm going to go drop into bed as it's 2:30 AM haha.
Great work to everyone who joined in the jam. I'm so happy that we have over 30 entries! Can't wait to play your games :)
