9/16/2014

Hi Touchers! Carter Dotson of TouchArcade kindly wrote an article for Baseless today! According to my web stats, that's probably why you're here. Welcome to my website, thanks for coming, and thanks to Carter for helping a little dev spread the word.

Well, since you're here, I suppose I might as well show off this new enemy concept:

The view is a bit zoomed out, but I think you can get the gist. A big ol' slow-flying electricity shooting baddie! I'm not sure how I feel about the actual enemy ship sprite. The electricity aesthetic was an accident I stumbled into, but I really like it. It's that low-poly geometry that's totally in style right now.

Anyways, that's all for now. I'm off to get back at dev'ing. Wish me luck!

9/9/2014

Still pondering the gameplay, so I might as well make things look good while I'm pondering.

These little guys are are just being too cute. (And sometimes they even hop from planet to planet. <3)

Also changed some things up with the larger enemy turrets. pointy! Here's a close up in which you can see the tip get brighter when it's charged, and the particles and recoil when it shoots. Inspired by the big enemy tank things from Halo.

Here's another gif showing some action-movie quality moves as I jump and slide across the barrel of the big turret. Also you can see here, that I've made the enemy flying jet things a little more lively by making the wings come in if they're going fast.

Still a little clunky as of now, but hey, it's on it's way! Would it help to know what's going on if I added a subtle mouse cursor or something in these gifs?

Last thing, and it's pretty important I think. The demo I have up (http://fermenter.itch.io/baseless) has been downloaded over 200 times, and that's sweet, but I've made so much progress since then, and it's a ton better because of that. I'm not sure what I should do about the current demo. I don't want people to play it and think that the final version will be much like it. I feel like it's probably doing more harm than good at this point. At the time I needed the feedback, and I'm super glad I put it up, but I'm thinking I should probably take it down now. What do you guys and gals think?

Thanks for all the encouragement during this development. It's really been awesome so far. Also, I'm always open to suggestions so keep em coming!

9/7/2014

giph jif gifs:

An eyeball?

Recoil animation on the enemy turrets.

And hey, I've got a question! What do you think about this for the gameplay objective/rules?

arrive in first galaxy. filled with enemies to kill that give you points upon doing so.
you have 120 seconds until warp/end of round.
you need to rack up at least 100 pts in this time.
120 seconds passes: if you have at least 100 points, you keep going. if you didn't collect enough, game over.
any points over 100 at the end of 120 seconds can be spent on upgrades(weapons/hp/speed/fire-rate/ammo/etc) inbetween galaxies/rounds.
repeat! warp to next galaxy. same thing as last time, but you need to get more points and/or the enemies are tougher.

Let me know if that makes sense, and if it does, would you like it? I'd love any feedback/questions.

9/5/2014

Shotgun, stars, and shiny stuff.

I guess it's hard to see the stars in this gif... :(

Also, I've got it looking rad on multiple screensizes. Check it out on the iPad below. My current process is to develop for the smallest screensize first (iPhone 5 in my case, 1136px x 640px) and once I've got it looking good small I then work on responsiveness and scaling things up.

Also, I've got some sweet ambient beats in the mix. It's tough to find the right musical sound for this game, but this'll do for now.

And most importantly, I think I've got a direction to go for the actual objective of the game, and I'll be posting about that shortly.

9/3/2014

First off, shout out to Christian of Indie Game Enthusiast. Check out some insightful reviews here: http://indiegameenthusiast.blogspot.com/

I've been working on some promotional aesthetics and practical icon and menu stuff, and I think I'm pretty happy with how things are looking. Check it out!

More game-y stuff soon!

8/26/2014

It's encouraging when you can't stop play-testing cause you're having too much fun. My "real" job has been keeping me painfully busy, but here's a few new gifs since last time:

Small snakeworms. Gotta figure out how to keep em from glitching out like this.

A for-testing-only planet creation system.

And here's a last one just for fun. I find myself trying to do this orbiting thing all the time when testing. Physics maaaaaaaan.

Also, I got another monitor at home for game dev'in'. All da monitors.

8/10/2014

This past week, I went to Colorado with the in-laws, and had a really refreshing time. Non-#gamedev work has been incredibly draining lately, so this vacation was a blessing. Mountains, rivers, chilliness, and many other non-Texas stuff. I know it was vacation, but I love to work on my games, so quite a few times I opened up the laptop and made a few additions to Baseless. Here you go:

Prettier galaxy birth.