Video of Tanks

Here's a quick video of the ANZ tank combat demo, it will be released when @crypticsea has 1,000,000 twitter followers, or Wednesday, whichever comes first.

-Alex

And all that you do

I just realized I haven't posted an update for a couple months, so here's some video of the stuff I've been working on. There will be a new version of A New Zero soon, probably just a small test of tank combat or air combat without the strategic parts yet.

At the end of the video you can see the touring cars game, the gameplay is close and we might have a beta demo of that soon also.

And all you create, and all you destroy

I've been working on the voxel engine for A New Zero, one of the additions is multiple voxel areas which I can place over the landscape for cities or bridges. The other is structural physics for the buildings, so they now collapse when you destroy the supports. At the end of the video you can see how this works, when an area is destroyed a physical model is created and a simulation similar to Pontifex's is run to see what should fall. I will be adding a humanoid mode soon, so you will be able to walk inside the buildings. Until they get blowed up.

In other news, here's some quotes about Hockey? from around the web:

"Oh by the way, is developed by the same human little people signed the now legendary 'Golf?'." - Google translation of gamesajare.com

"You will learn. You’ll suffer first. But you will learn." - rockpapershotgun.com

"I'm ...very, very hard." - indiegames.com

"why is ign showing us this?" - deltrae3 on youtube.com

"very enjoying this game" - bloodynooob on youtube.com

Hockey?

We made a first-person hockey game in a week.

UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!

hockey054.zip

Use WASD and the mouse

left mouse button looks at puck

right mouse button for mouse look also lean for checking

space bar to jump

mouse wheel to tilt stick

enter to chat

Shift F5 to restart game

Version 0.54

-added switch teams (press 0) during warmup or intermission

-added kick player

-added direct ip

-fixed disappearing puck bug

-fixed overtime ending bug

-fixed jumping exploit

Version 0.53

-fixed net code more

Version 0.52

-net code improved

-autorestart

Version 0.51

-fixed chat bug

-fixed player in wrong body bug

-fixed invisible ice bug?

-fixed game over on client

-fixed assist

-client controls a little better

With their tanks and their cars, and their cars and their tanks

Here's a couple videos showing the latest developments in the tanks physics for A New Zero and the multiplayer racing game based on 70s touring cars. We've played a few multiplayer rounds of racing here and it's getting pretty fun, the next step is to add height changes to the race track. The tanks are getting close to being playable, I'll probably do an open beta of just tank combat once it's ready.

-Alex

Tanks

Here's a video of some tank physics I've been working on, I'm considering doing tanks like this for the next version of A New Zero. I'm still in the design phase right now so I'm not sure how landscapes will fit into the game, but the islands will at least be a lot bigger.

I've also made some progress on the top-down racing game, we'll probably do some tests of it here next week.

-Alex

Ludum Dare Game Jam

We're doing a game jam here at IGN for Ludum Dare 20, the team is Justin, Colin, Evan and Chris from Interabang, Kent from Ethereal, and me from here. The theme is "It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!". We went through a few ideas, right now we've narrowed it down to three:

Nuclear Hand Grenade

Acid Rain Umbrella

Zero-Gravity Space

We're going to make prototypes for each one in the next few hours and see which one ends up fun. I'll be updating the blog every few hours with our progress.

-Alex