If the game crashes with a SharpDX.SharpDXException (probably all ATI Radeon and maybe some NVIDIA Geforce cards) there is a problem with the anti-aliasing. Please try the "no antialiasing"-version. Thank you!
We could not complete the game in time, so there is no goal. Have fun blasting some some ships and asteroids.
Gamepad controls: (Xbox 360 Controller-compatible only) Rotate: Right stick Primary fire: Right trigger Secondary fire: Left trigger Movement: Left stick Up/Down: DPad up/DPad down Roll: DPad left/DPad right Boost: LB or RB
Tips: - You can double your forward speed by pressing the boost key. - Always keep moving!
Thx for the feedback - I have released Version 1.1, now featuring an exception handler. This won't fix your problem, but should show an error message which might show what is broken.
Hard to debug without access to the machine... I guess you have an ATI graphics card? I have put up a new version without anti-aliasing which might solve the problem, because it was configured for Nvidia-cards.
Very Nice Graphics! Too bad you didn't get to sound or scoring, i'd love to see something with more 'aim' using these graphics. They have a pretty nice mood to them.
No problem running it on Windows 7. Controls are intuitive but feel a little sluggish. It's hard to tell when you hit something or how much health you have left. I like the ship design and the graphic style of using AO and flat shaded low-poly ships.
@zazery: We decided to exclude a GUI for extra minimalism, but I agree that ship color is not the best health indicator :D Also all ship and asteroid hitboxes are spheres (we definitly ran out of time) so most things do not really "hit" each other.
Nice aesthetics but I was missing the game, though. You should definitely put it in somewhere. The feeling is great for both the ship and space. Continue this!
Anywho! The no-AA version worked fine and smoothly, up until I flew all the way to the sun and turned around. Rendering all asteroids in one screen had a bit of a hit on my frame rate. Not a lot, it was still very much playable. I don't believe it dropped more than 5-10 fps, ending up on ~50. So some kind of LOD depending on distance to the rocks could be nice.
The controls were smooth and dandy. Being able to "jump" and "crouch" were a nice touch. Although, the added force on the lasers (going left made them go slightly left) made it really hard to aim.
I really liked the easy going graphics. Nice colours and shapes, all together.
@eShredder: Actually small objects are already removed depending on the distance (which gave about a 2x performance boost when viewing the whole scene :D) Still there is so much room for additional optimization, e.g. hardware instancing would help a lot.
@juaxix: Crosshair is mostly implemented in my dev build and more missiles are already implemented on the T3-Ship - you just cannot upgrade your ship to get it because upgrading is not implemented :p No source code release, sorry.
The version with anti-aliasing disabled seems to work. Beautiful models, but I just get shot by a bunch of ships. Maybe I manage to take one or two down, but then I have to quit and relaunch the game. It would be nice to be able to keep fighting by picking up health powerups or something. Interesting that there are two clusters of asteroids, it makes the game feel that much bigger.
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Hope that helps!
http://whilefun.com/img/misc/SpaceTheoryError.jpg
Too bad you didn't get to sound or scoring, i'd love to see something with more 'aim' using these graphics. They have a pretty nice mood to them.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653
AA version:
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Space Theory: Unhandled domain exception
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SharpDX.SharpDXException: HRESULT: [0x80070057], Module: [Unknown], ApiCode: [Unknown/Unknown], Message: The parameter is incorrect.
at SharpDX.Result.CheckError()
at SharpDX.Direct3D11.Device.CreateTexture2D(Texture2DDescription& descRef, DataBox[] initialDataRef, Texture2D texture2DOut)
at qx3d.Renderer.DirectX11.DepthStencil.Rebuild()
at qx3d.Renderer.DirectX11.Factory.CreateDepthStencil(DepthStencilDescription description)
at qx3d.Engine.Viewport..ctor(IRenderer renderer)
at qx3d.Engine.Engine.CreateViewport()
at qx3d.Program.Main(String[] cmdArgs)
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OK
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Non-AA version:
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Space Theory: Unhandled domain exception
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System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1<!!0> System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Run(System.Func`1<System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1<!!0>>)'.
at qx3d.LudumDare26.SimpleApplicationHost.Load(IRenderer renderer, String buildFilename)
at qx3d.Program.Main(String[] cmdArgs)
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OK
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@zazery: We decided to exclude a GUI for extra minimalism, but I agree that ship color is not the best health indicator :D
Also all ship and asteroid hitboxes are spheres (we definitly ran out of time) so most things do not really "hit" each other.
Anywho!
The no-AA version worked fine and smoothly, up until I flew all the way to the sun and turned around. Rendering all asteroids in one screen had a bit of a hit on my frame rate. Not a lot, it was still very much playable. I don't believe it dropped more than 5-10 fps, ending up on ~50. So some kind of LOD depending on distance to the rocks could be nice.
The controls were smooth and dandy. Being able to "jump" and "crouch" were a nice touch.
Although, the added force on the lasers (going left made them go slightly left) made it really hard to aim.
I really liked the easy going graphics. Nice colours and shapes, all together.
Are you going to submit the code soon?
Still there is so much room for additional optimization, e.g. hardware instancing would help a lot.
@juaxix: Crosshair is mostly implemented in my dev build and more missiles are already implemented on the T3-Ship - you just cannot upgrade your ship to get it because upgrading is not implemented :p No source code release, sorry.