Still alive

Hey!

Quite a long time without any communication about the projet... sorry!

First, the project is not dead. Well in fact it died. For the 2 time. But it came back to life as it did previously, long before the creation of this dev blog.

The project is now taking a new direction. Up to now, i used to code the entire game using a simple (yet powerfull) engine : Yna. That was a great journey. With this engine I could learn a lot of things about 3D. But Alone in Space requires a huge amount work. And it turned out that Yna was too much "simple" (no offense here) for my needs.

So i did my mourning. The last months of work were not lost at all. I learn so much things with this game engine (thanks to +Yannick Comte) that I'm now much more comfortable with 3D programming, management, etc...

Some people I know are using Unity to create games but I never really listened to them (yes, i'm completely stubborn). I watched some tutorial videos. Then tried the editor and... mind blowing fact : it took me about 3 hours to get the same result than after about a month of work previously. It was settled : I will use Unity.

Here is a quick wallpaper made with a new 3D model for the Anti-matter Accelerator to celebrate this new born. Cheers!

Talking about AiS

Hey!

I'm not dead, the project neither. This few days I was preparing a conference about Alone in Space. I polished a clean version of the actual game to present the Structure construction system and the resource management.

More informations about the conference here (in french) : Passion sans limite

After presenting myself and my game project, i could talk to peoples and they gave me great feedback and ideas. That's awesome. Thank you guys!

As I said to many of you on Google Plus or by voice, here come screenshots of the version v0.0.0.3 available for test on my stand :

And to conclude, yes, this version is freely downloadable here : Alone in Space v0.0.0.3. That's a Google Drive upload so to get it, press CTRL+ S or File > Download)

Please note things about this version :

•  You need the XNA 4.0 Redistributable
• The first structure built must be the command center
• Structures need energy to run or a yellow storm will appear over them.
• To create energy, build some solar plants
• Buildings need to be near a road
• There is no sound nor music
• You can press "H" to show / hide the UI
• Enjoy!

Alone in Space - v0.0.0.2

Hey!

Happy new year! I hope you a lot of love and great things for the incoming year 2013!

There was no real activity on Alone in Space since my last "run" around christmas. From then I worked on making a playable demo of the current state gameplay. You can build structures.  I'm going to present this demo at a meeting in Lyon (France) organized by the Game Dev Party (which promote the indie gamedev). The meeting takes place the 10th of january. More informations about this event here (in french) : Passion sans Limite.

I also thrown a personnal challenge to myself : create a flash game before the end of 2012. So I worked about 12 hours on two days making a simple flash game. It's available on Kongragate, so feel free to test it! That's not perfect, there are optimization problems. But keep in mind that it was done in a few hours. By the way, I want to improve it to be fun and user friendly as well. I wont add additionnal features, just improve the existing ones.

Here we go

The travel begins.

After more than one year of prototyping and gamedesign, the project is now mature enough for the developement to begin.

The first lines of code are already written, the adventure is started. Don't forget to subscribe to the feed to get the lastest fresh news about it!