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Mattias Gustavsson

I've started thinking about what I'm doing for the side scroller compo, and also just starting to prepare some side-scroller tech. I'll be using this thread to post about the progress as I go along.

What I'm thinking of doing is more like a sidescrolling action game than a real RPG, but I'd like to try and get some proper RPG elements in there, and some form of story too.

It was actually reading RampantCoyotes blog which gave me the idea, from the mention of Golden Axe:

But I think I'll be drawing even more inspiration from Barbarian 2:

More laters...
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RampantCoyote · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:14 pm Post subject:

Woot!
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Verious · Mage Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 409 Location: Online

Sounds like it will be a fun game.

I always enjoyed Golden Axe and recently played it for several hours when I got Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for Xbox 360.

Mattias Gustavsson · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject:

Yay, got a 4-layer parallax system working, with some basic movement back/forth. Next on to making a simple built-in editor, so I can make levels :D This is FUN.
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Mattias Gustavsson · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:52 am Post subject:

Got the basic built-in editor working now, along with level load/save. Will finish it off with some extra stuff first thing tomorrow, then go on to actually start working on the game. I'm going to be re-using as much art as I can for this one (which means just rendering out characters and stuff which I've already put together for other projects :D)
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Verious · Mage Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 409 Location: Online

Sounds like a solid plan. The Poser characters you previously created were top-notch. I'm looking forward to seeing the game.

Mattias Gustavsson · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:18 am Post subject:

Been doing lots of rendering and art stuff now (I hate working with placeholder art), coding player movement stuff on my laptop while waiting for renders to finish. It's coming along quite nicely. Will probably spend most of today just getting the elements in (scenery, npc's, player movement, AI etc) and tomorrow making the more game specific stuff (story, dialogue etc).

This is going to be tight, I've aimed way to high. But I ain't backing down now!
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Mattias Gustavsson · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:48 am Post subject:

Here's a mockup of what I'm aiming for:

Still a long way to go before I have that all working though :P
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Mattias Gustavsson · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:14 pm Post subject:

Here's a screenshot from what I have at the moment:

It's a start :-)
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Nodtveidt · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:35 pm Post subject:

Hey, I recognize the Water Elemental model in your first screenshot. :) I've used that model before, during the Two Lords project...it's a pretty cool figure. :) That sword graphic looks very familiar too but I can't quite think of which one it is...I know I have it in my library also though...I recognize the side blades. :)
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DeveloperX · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject:

Damn Mattias..that looks really great!
Keep up the great work!
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Codexus · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:14 pm Post subject:

That's looking awesome!

Mattias Gustavsson · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys :)

@nodtveidt:The sword is a 3D-universe freebie (freebies are great). If you're using poser, you must check out my free poser content manager. I could never get stuff done this quickly without it :-)

Gotta have a title screen!

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Mattias Gustavsson · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:52 pm Post subject:

Starting to realize there's now way I'll be getting this game to the state I'd like before tonight :P
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increpare · Blue Fillrect Joined: 19 Feb 2009 Posts: 43

that doesn't mean you're not going to finish it though :)