My first time trying this, I created a simple "chase to the border" game. The objective is to make it to the edge of the map.
I used xna game studio 4, paint.net, and sfxr. 3D objects were created by just typing out the coordinates in code as they are all simple primitives. Terrain is random seed based so each level is the same.
I took one peek at some old code for camera axis vector extraction, but other than that it was all done on the fly.
Plays well on netbooks, and controls with either keyboard or 360 gamepad.
The first level is so confusing, info about powerup could help, but i enjoy it, the game is more and more challenging, nice start.I played with keyboard too lazy to get my joypad.
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Zed22 Aug 2011, 23:59
Really cool. I could see it having some kind of cyberpunk 'Running Man' vibe if you expanded on it.
It was frequently very to difficult to see myself as a cube would pop up from behind me and due to its size over shadow the player making it hard to see where I am going next.
Also the sound did make the cubes scarier than imaginable.
Thanks for playing! I had done some fractal terrain that is much better in the past, but I couldn't remember exactly how I did it, so I went with just randomized heights and 2 smoothing passes. They vary per level, but are somewhat similar. I had to be sure things weren't too steep so the camera didn't drift into the ground.
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Also the sound did make the cubes scarier than imaginable.