Sweet…
Just emailed the final submission of this semester’s game, Comet. I’d tell you about it, but you can just go play it (if you’re got a pretty durn beefy PC… it’s originally made for the Xbox 360 and has no performance options
) from SendSpace (temporarily). In the highly likely chance that you can’t play it due to system reqs, it’s basically an arcade-y, abstract, planet-based shooter. And your’e a comet. It’s actually a fair bit of fun if you can run it, a fact of which I’m more than a little bit proud. After Stage IV, it was a relief to just work on something that is meant to be fun to play. Maybe we’ll be able to post a low-spec version later so more people that I know can download it. I tested the installer on a couple clean machines, and it seemed to do the trick just fine, so that component at least should be good to go.
So, with that done, I’ve now worked on and completed 4 student projects, and I’m pretty happy with the spread:
Fall 2006: Guardin’ the Garden, an RTS-lite game where you put down bug spray, scarecrows, and other silly garden defenses to keep out bugs.
Spring 2007: Music Monsters, an experimental platformer where you train little monsters called Zyks using musical input from your keyboard (my job was the music lab algs… yeah……)
Spring 2008: Stage IV, an pseudo-story-game where you experience the death of a man to cancer through the eyes of different characters.
Fall 2008: Comet, an abstract 2D shooter where you control a sentient cosmic guardian and fight back Spores, evil machines that produce deadly nanoparticle fog (don’t ask me… I just do the programming!
).
The latter two aren’t up on the GDIAC site as yet (though if I start bothering Walker about it twice an hour, maybe Stage IV will be, and Comet will probably be up in few weeks). I’m happiest with the first and last; GtG turned out pretty fun and was a great start, and Comet I think is the most fun to play. Music Monsters…. eh…. it kinda got caught up on technical and time issues and so was buggy as heck when released. And Stage IV…. let’s just not talk about that, yah?
Anyways, now I can finally rest and relax and… wait…. what’s that you say? Three finals in three days?!?! Blast!