Tunnel Lords

Summary:

A 2D vertical scrolling mining game set in the future.

Tunnel Lords

Brett208 25 Dec 2015 09:18

Tunnel Lords

For the competition, I'm finishing Tunnel Lords, a game that has been in development since January of 2015. Tunnel Lords is a 2D vertical scrolling mining game set in the future. You have to dig for minerals and either sell them for cash or use them to expand the fledgling colony your drillship and driver live in.

Download Version 1.0 Demo: http://tunnellords.com/content/uploads/2016/01/TunnelLords1.0-Demo.zip

Video Trailer

Screen shots

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Previous Competition Links (History of the project)

Competition #4: http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/forum/t-1093657/tunnel-lords:mining-epsilon-eridani-brett-s-game-updates
Competition #6: http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/forum/t-1330964/tunnel-lords

Rough list of current tasks

• get approved through peer review for XBOX 360.
• Finish version 1.0 of PC demo.

Last edited on 07 Jan 2016 11:28 by Brett208 Show more

Re: Tunnel Lords

Brett208 25 Dec 2015 09:26

I'll continue to update the first posting as screenshots, demos, etc come available to prevent people from having to dig through posts to find newer links.

I've been working on the game through the last week even though this is the first post and below is what has been accomplished.
I've finished a complete play through of the game on XBOX360. This playthrough resulted in fixing 2 crashing bugs that only become a problem with extend playing while saving/loading, which were good to discover. The game was well balanced and only required 1 minor tweak to gameplay, you can hit an object at a slightly quicker speed before taking damage now.

We added some much improved rock and magma graphics to the game.

I am about halfway through a final edit of the in game HUD to comply with TV safe areas. It is hard for me to give up screen real estate but it is probably harder for someone to play with an off screen health bar.

Up Next:
I'll likely add a couple of names to the credits screen and work some more polished screen shots.

None of the work is for today though as it is Christmas Day and the family and I will be spending the day relaxing together and hopefully enjoying each others' company (sometimes managing expectations for a 2-year old can be difficult). I did want to get this posted since I have been scarce in the forums/chat lately. I hope everyone else is enjoying their time off, or time at work if that is how life goes for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Last edited on 25 Dec 2015 09:31 by Brett208 Show more

Re: Tunnel Lords

Brett208 30 Dec 2015 17:50

Update for 30 DEC:

The credits screen is now considered finished! We have 4 nice new large rock tiles inserted. The final screenshots of the title screen and load screen are uploaded. A demo of version 0.92 is now uploaded and the link is in the first post. This is a demo of the game and will halt progress at a certain depth. Also, the HUD has some graphics abnormalities we are aware of. If anyone tries it and has feedback, it would be much appreciated.

We are working through the final graphics of the HUD. I'm stuck not taking more screenshots until it is completed. Some of the delay is just getting the graphics ready. The rest is carefully managing the safe area concerns on the TV.

We should have plenty of time the next few days to make some big strides.

Last edited on 30 Dec 2015 17:52 by Brett208 Show more

Re: Tunnel Lords

Marcus42 30 Dec 2015 20:19

It's looking good, Brett! I'm definitely planning to try the demo, although that may end up being tomorrow - I'll let you know when I do.

As a side question because I don't remember for sure, does purchasing games on the XBLA require a gold Xbox Live account? Do you know?

Re: Tunnel Lords

Brett208 31 Dec 2015 03:34

Thanks Marcus.

You can purchase XBOX Live Indie Games and XBOX Arcade games with a silver account. If the game supports online play, it is usually disabled until you get a gold account.

Re: Tunnel Lords

Brett208 03 Jan 2016 17:27

Today is a big day for the game!

We finished the last tweaking of the HUD. All the graphics are now in order. Consequently, I was able to take the rest of the final screenshots and record gameplay. We then took the screenshots and video and made a 1 minute trailer of the game!

The video is uploaded to Youtube and embeded in the top post. You can also view it at https://youtu.be/A2guaOsmmJo.

Still need to post some more screen shots, but that will come later. I will post the final demo to bitbucket soon as well.

Re: Tunnel Lords

Brett208 05 Jan 2016 17:36

The game is finished at ready to submit to XNA! Unfortunately, the XNA peer review process is currently not functioning properly, so I'll have to wait a little.

The 4 finalized screenshots that I plan to submit with the game have been added to the first blog posting.

Re: Tunnel Lords

Emblis 05 Jan 2016 22:00

Awesome work, cheers mate!

Re: Tunnel Lords

Brett208 06 Jan 2016 13:52

It looks like the peer review process was fixed shortly after I posted Tunnel Lords and she managed to pass Peer review with no issues! I think it should be available in about 24 hours on the marketplace. I'm not sure how stringent the review process was though, so I am glad I put a lot of time into testing and going over the Evil Checklist.

Once the game is public, I'll post a link to the XNA public game page and let everyone know.

In the meantime, here is Tunnel Lord's box art.

Re: Tunnel Lords

Ninjaboi8175 07 Jan 2016 05:27

Very well done, congrats!

Re: Tunnel Lords

Brett208 07 Jan 2016 11:27

Thank you Ninjaboi and Emblis!

I just finished the official PC demo of the game. You can download it with this link: http://tunnellords.com/content/uploads/2016/01/TunnelLords1.0-Demo.zip.

I'll put the link in the first post as well.