Empires of the Black Sun

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Empires of the Black Sun

PiscesMike 06 Feb 2017 05:02

I'm aiming to release a game this year. And this is the project that's going to make that happen.

I'm completely reworking my Empires of the Black Sun game. If you haven't seen it before, it's a space based RPG loosely based on space invaders:

Theoretically, there should be elements of Final Fantasy blended in. For instance, you would be able to travel through space freely, where you have random encounters. That's where the old school space invaders fight comes from. You would also have to gather resources for upgrades, be able to gain levels, and encounter level based enemies so every fight you get into matches your skill level.

It's an interesting idea, and I hope to bring it to fruition. We'll just have to see how things go. My current plan is to start with this competition and keep reworking it throughout 2017 until I have something I feel is worthy of putting out there.

I spent this weekend working through some issues with game play and scope, and worked up an outline of how things could work. There's a little more design work but I think I'm on a good path. Hopefully, by next weekend maybe I can get out some visuals.

Good Luck all, and it's great seeing every one making it happen!

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"May the mercy of His Divine Shadow fall upon you." - Stanley H. Tweedle, Security Guard class IV, The League of 20,000 planets

Re: Empires of the Black Sun

PiscesMike 02 Mar 2017 17:15

Well, here we are with 3 days left. My how time flies.

So, what have I got done? Not very much, visually speaking. At this point, all I have is a ship that moves left and right and fires some glowing red bullets. Not even close to what I had completed when doing this game the last time.

On the bright side though, my design is leaps and bounds above what it used to be. And I suppose, in reality, that is mainly what I am going for this round. I had made an offhand comment in chat that I wouldn't mind spending the entire competition on design, if things worked out well. That was kind of a joke, but it looks like that's the way things are going to end up.

And that isn't a bad thing, necessarily. I have learned a ton of design stuff including some more advanced class building, inheritance, and some slight polymorphism. I also tackled and successfully implemented my first event and event handler code. Although late last night I realized it was in the wrong place, so some refactoring once again took place.

At any rate, things are off to a decent start. Kind of feel like I should have gotten a little more done, but Feb was a pretty rough month for me due to some work issues, and falling ill 2 times. I seem to finally be getting over this flu so hopefully I'll have a little more to show by the 5th.

Take care all, and good luck on your own projects!

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"May the mercy of His Divine Shadow fall upon you." - Stanley H. Tweedle, Security Guard class IV, The League of 20,000 planets