"Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire." - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
During this two days, my work as been mainly shader code, and javascript learning. It's not a game, more a small landscape to discover. WebGL is a great tool, and this first LD try as been very instructive.
I have used the framework "PlayCanvas" (thank to them) actualy in beta, but already with great tools, powerfull and very customisable.
Use arrow keys to move the camera across the little maze.
Very interesting. I am a huge fan of games that use browsers as their platform. This is one of the more beautiful demonstrations of WebGL that I have seen in action. I really wish there was more of a game to play - do you think you will expand on it in the future? :)
I could prettend that the lack of gameplay is intended. You are in a sort of hell place, and you wait for an eternal time in this little maze. I will maybe continue the project. My final goal was to add some strangle fist weapon, and creature in despear or wrath that you can collect the souls. I'm having troubble with the random generation so everything is static in this version. Obviously it could be nice to have several room style and diversity.
"veins glowing arcs" : not sure of that you talk, if it's the sky, it's a mess of shader code. I take several noise texture to make a distortion on my stroke texture. You can check in the source code, all is located in GlobalScrip.js, search "colorFrag3" (name convention is not that important anyway ^^). I have used mainly shader because it so fast compare to javascript, and webGL give access to that. All animation is done in shader, even the mesh motion of the spiky arch.
Nice cross hatching, i made an effect similar to this not to long ago. The only thinkg that i would say is that the material gets a little to bright when its fully iluminated, would mabie adjust the secularity a little. Great work :D
Really interesting visual style. The idea of using the thickness of the cross hatching to represent darkness of the shadowed areas is really clever. Obviously, missing some more game like elements here, but as a sort of technical demo it's really great!
Per : I havent testes three.js. I think playCanvas is less open but has an editor in browser, witch is cool. Uuav : Lights can already move (and your character emit light too) but i found it disturbing, with the rest of the world prety much static. Wuhao : I havent tested unity, PlayCanvas has also an editor but prety basic for now. Programing is done in JavaScript.
I'm working on a post-compo version, with an enemy ! For now, he just chase you whenever he see you. I must had some kind of weapon and a lifebar. I want to add some trap too.
The art style is gorgeous distinctive. I found the animated sky distracting, but understand that what I'm looking at is a nice little programming playground and you are completely foregiven :)
I know the hatching is baked into your textures but it makes me wonder if you can't do procedural hatching in a shader instead, so as to make a true 3D interactive scene that appears to have been drawn with a biro and excellent hatching
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SamoojaMies21 Dec 2012, 21:07
Cool looking but that's about it :). Good job anyhow.
The textures are beautiful, though I would turn the specular highlighting down a bit on the walls.
The up and down motion while walking for some reason gives me a headache when coupled with the moving sky and pulsating textures, but this really is a small and easily solved problem.
You really should do something more with this, because the art style has a lot of potential!
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It is indeed more a tech demo than a game. Maybe a first step towards a modern Wizard-like?
Can you give me a description of the mechanism of those veins glowing arcs?
thanks for the memories, will recommend to all my fellow planar entities
Really beautiful, I hope you carry on working on it.
Enjoyed walking around and looking forward to some quests in future.
I will take a look at that framework. I use three.js myself and this seems to be a nice alternative!
how do you find PlayCanvas, is it unity like?
Uuav : Lights can already move (and your character emit light too) but i found it disturbing, with the rest of the world prety much static.
Wuhao : I havent tested unity, PlayCanvas has also an editor but prety basic for now. Programing is done in JavaScript.
I'm working on a post-compo version, with an enemy ! For now, he just chase you whenever he see you. I must had some kind of weapon and a lifebar. I want to add some trap too.
I know the hatching is baked into your textures but it makes me wonder if you can't do procedural hatching in a shader instead, so as to make a true 3D interactive scene that appears to have been drawn with a biro and excellent hatching
amazing job!
The up and down motion while walking for some reason gives me a headache when coupled with the moving sky and pulsating textures, but this really is a small and easily solved problem.
You really should do something more with this, because the art style has a lot of potential!