Puzzle Moppet (source released)

[xDan]

I've no idea about that screenshot... there isn't anything in the logfile? I suppose probably not for an odd graphical glitch like that..

I'll add a homepage link or something to the site. Thanks

[xDan]

Oh, if anyone would like to test the full version, please PM me and I will give you a secret download link. Hopefully you can also give some feedback on the difficulty curve =)

I'm still not 100% finished on this though, I'm going at add at least a simple title screen + menu.

[fmx]

PM sent

[xDan]

Now has a basic menu system, with level select:



http://garnetgames.com/puzzlemoppet/

Todo next: maybe some music on the title screen? I'm not sure though, I quite like just the wind sound...

[xDan]

A small update... Now has:

- tutorial across the first few levels
- undo function! (also saves just before you fall off the world)
- level ratings (can you get a "Perfect" score hmm?)
- other minor things



PuzzleMoppetTrial.exe
PuzzleMoppetTrial.tar.gz

[serengeor]

Hm, Your levels look like what I would want in my game. what did you use to make/texture your assets(like the ground block). Any shaders used to give them a nicer look?

[xDan]

Hm, Your levels look like what I would want in my game. what did you use to make/texture your assets(like the ground block). Any shaders used to give them a nicer look?

Blocks are just simple unit cubes, but with curved overhanging sides. The overhang extends beyond the unit cube, but curves downwards, so when placed next to each other the blocks tile nicely:


Texturing was quite tricky... each surface is just textured 0-1 so they tile nicely. Then I apply a scale to the texture matrix of each surface to make the texture sizes appear greater (so less repetition, repeats every 3 blocks). Recently I changed that to remove need for texture matrices, now the entire ground blocks are combined into a single mesh + the UVs are scaled instead of using texture matrices.

Without this the repetition is quite obvious + ugly:


Shaders are:
- Hemisphere shader for lighting (see projects/Puzzle/media/shaders). this interpolates between a darker colour underneath objects to a lighter yellowy sun colour above. I also multiply the resulting pixel colour by a set amount to brighten the scene a little.


- a noise texture then applied on top of everything, at a large scale, and slowly scrolls across, to simulate the shadow of clouds. It's quite subtle, I think it's more noticeable in motion:


- texturing...


- small amount of bloom... makes bright patches brighter and larger...

[omaremad]

Sorry i missed this great game

Really fun with lots of polish!

[xDan]

Thanks

[xDan]

Now has the much requested grid based movement:



The glyph thing on the ground shows the possible directions of movement (with the larger arrow indicating forwards). This hopefully helps make it obvious which grid direction you'll move along... since e.g. at angles near 45 degrees it's not obvious whether you should move up or right.

It can be enabled/disabled via an options menu. I'm not entirely sure whether I should enable this by default though!? Anyone have thoughts on this??

--> I'm now getting very near what I shall consider "complete"...

[ChaiRuiPeng]

congratulations on getting so far

it's nice to see people accomplishing nice looking polished end products

[xDan]

Thanks

Now have some kind of "looking-into-the-sun" effect (don't know the proper word for that)... The entire sky box is brightened by a great amount when you look directly into the sun to give a kind of glare. Also a scrolling noise texture added to the skybox to simulate moving clouds above and below.



Also I've changed the wind loop to one that is less repetitive...

Well, if you're lucky this will be my last update (Famous last words). If anyone has any final thoughts before I go "gold"...

PuzzleMoppetTrial.exe
PuzzleMoppetTrial.tar.gz

[Lonesome Ducky]

I don't know if you saw this, but the yogscast reviewed your trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb2WD3mlFCk&feature=channel_video_title

[ChaiRuiPeng]

I don't know if you saw this, but the yogscast reviewed your trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb2WD3mlFCk&feature=channel_video_title

congratulations on the net-press coverage xDan

[xDan]

Ahahahaha Yes, I did see that...

Sold 4 copies so far :S Only several thousand more to go...