Awesome stuffDunno if this helps but we handled input management in two ways: Whatever you press a button on at the title screen becomes the 'active' input but you can go to the options and toggle between them at will.
Ours is a bit more complex since we support kb/m and pad among four players (including 1 player on kbm 1 player on pad etc) so maybe yours is enough if it's single player
Good luck!
Don't go stepping on my unannounced project, yo! Keep that shit on the down low!
I'm halfway done with it. Waiting on some new headers from my artist and some tidying up. Will be here hopefully at end of week.
Quite happy with the way this particle effect turned out. Took a bit of tweaking to get it moving organically but I'm satisfied.
There are some things that I want to add in the game but didnt know if I had the time for that. Now it seems I have the time. Changes that in my mind are worth it and will make the game better. Super excited about the idea of releasing Horizon Danger, my first game, in 2015 but at the same time i'm also kinda scared edit: another related doodle. melee animating is pretty tough, definitely takes patience.
So yesterday ended on an unexpected but also super exciting note, with Horizon Danger being greenlit on Steam! I could not believe it when I got the news and this changes my plan for the game a bit.
My plan was to be done with the game around march and focus on promoting the game in jan/feb and march for getting more votes on Greenlight. But that is not a thing I need to worry about anymore apparently. It gives me some breathing room again.
Can't describe how happy i am at the moment
What a way to end the year and start 2015
Wanted to thank everyone in the thread for voting and the support
I think I saw at least one person recommend trying Blender for putting trailers together. I haven't tried it myself though, and that's definitely an unusual use for 3D modeling software, but I imagine it does have some tools for movies.
Yeah. I have tried blender but its learning curve is a bit much. Trying Sony Vegas - 50 buck version now. Haven't bought but its nonlinear with a timeline and a bazillion export options. Liking the trial so far. I don't need anything fancy, lots of FX I make in chop.
Been using it for most of the afternoon and I dig it. The timeline is pretty good. Might bite on it for 50 bucks. My only issue is file import. I use OpenBroadcast to record video because its light years higher quality than Fraps or Bandicam and it's Open Source. Vegas has issues opening the videos so I need to use Handbrake to convert. A little bit is lost in translation with object edge transparency but it still looks better than YouTube which is where its going so at least I know its only downhill from there hahaha.
First some new environment work from this evening. I know the art style is visually *very* simple, but since the whole point of the game is not being able to tell the difference between open surfaces and walls without changing perspective or bumping up against them this is the look the game needs...
That said, something about the glowing colours in the blackness is something I couldn't be happier with. It reminds me of old school vector monitors mainly, and a touch of Tron, although not so much Tron as I'm avoiding grids. The rapid prototyping this style allows for (combined with UE4's amazing ability to instantly put me in the game world to check perspectives etc) is making this whole thing go very smoothly.
By way of explanation about the game... here is a puzzle I made the other week.
On entering this room, it looks like so:
When the player walks forwards, they will fall down below what initially appeared to be the floor. The underside of the path suspended over the gap is coloured with a blue glowing material. The player can use the glowing lines on the walls and the coloured underside of the path to work out where they need to go.
On turning around to find their way back up, a set of stairs that aren't initially visible on entering the room can be easily seen.
This is the view when the player looks back the way they came, edges of the path not visible from the entrance make the path the player has taken obvious on reflection.
The player can choose to jump forwards, landing between the glowing lines. A specific line of dialogue will play if the player does this on completing the puzzle (not yet implemented).
Anyone interested to see more of the puzzles can check out the current build reflecting about three and a half levels. Dialogue has only been rigged on the first level (and its all place holder voicework) as a proof of concept / character. Everything else is just puzzles. Currently checkpoints aren't working properly (though it will save what level you are on) and it doesn't remember if you toggle on invert aim (since Unreal Engine updated to 4.6 I've had this glitch).
Download for Win 64 from Mega
Oh, also, this works with the Oculus Rift, which is a recommended way to play it. Y resets the camera position.
The map naming convention is simple if you want to load any particular map. 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1. Just use 'open levelname' in the console. If you do check it out I'd love to know what you think of the idea.
Again, I plan on releasing this for free as its a pet project and I don't know how interested other people will be in the concept, or what people will think of a game that is sort of like making an entire game out of finding push blocks in Wolfenstein 3D.
Yeah I'm using Bandi's recommended for Vegas. Motion Jpeg. I am at uncompressed 60 so I'm about 1 gig per 35 seconds of video with no audio. YouTube will crush my efforts but at least its clean going in
Aye. Premiere is great. I didn't know it was that cheap. Will have to look into it. Trailer is 90% complete right now and looks pretty good. I'm satisfied so far. Maybe for my next game I'll look at Adobe for more serious efforts.
I would love to see a neogaf indie bundle. And of course hopefully participate on one someday
