Rogue Planet Game

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January 31st - Temporary Slowdown

Lead developer here bringing you the bad news, for whoever’s reading.

Inactivity is obviously going on, within a few months I’ll be done with my current University and free time will drastically increase, but as of now I don’t have the time to continue development of this game constantly, not with what it needs at least.

A lot of the work resides in environment design, which I am absolutely not capable of. We had someone willing to work on this with us but there have been no response whatsoever so we assume they are either dead or not interested in working on this anymore.

Therefore the main problem will be looking, introducing and tutoring a new environment designer, all this has been shifted to after I get my degree (hopefully).

Do not worry though, I intend to complete this project. Even if resources are cut short, I’ll do my best to manage them into a fully playable game.

Thank you all for your time, even if that followers count is small, it still isn’t zero.

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January 9th

Hey there fellas!

Here’s the lead artist coming to hit you up with actually an apology for nothing new that was uploaded on the blog cause of few reasons and this time around sadly I dont have anything new to show to you.

However I can assure you that I am working on making new enemies for the game and soon enough I should be able to show you something more-- including showing the models themself and some animation attached to them so you could get curious.

I hope we can get the next update done pretty quickly and that it will have fun stuff in it! Til next time sorry once again and have a nice day!

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December 19th - New stuff, improvements and fixes

I managed to find the time to work on some stuff, check them out.

New stuff

Options tab in the Main Menu:

There’ll be more options for quality settings, but for now you can:

Set resolution

Switch fullscreen mode

Set quality

Set volume

Delete run data (progress normally lost through death)

New starting weapon: Broken Pipe

It attacks faster than the old Wrench (which can still be found in the game), doesn’t stun enemies (was too strong for a starting weapon) and is faster at the cost of less damage. This should make first enemies more challenging while keeping the game’s pace up.

New enemies: Bomb user and Nailgun user

As you might have figured, the Bomb user throws bombs at you while the Nailgun user shoots nail-bullets at you.

Here’s what happens when its nails hit you

New enemies’ death effect, a simple one but should feel much better when killing enemies. You no longer have to wait til their death animations are over, they’ll explode and drop loot for you.

Lastly, new save system. You can now enter any game at any time and your progress will be saved on that server.

If the host continues to play alone, however, and progresses through the game, rejoining that server will cause you to spawn at the current level’s spawn.

Improvements

New level’s obstacles placement

You can now find more complicated rooms per level, making it more tricky to get out of there alive.

Better menu “scenes” placement, making the camera move less while keeping the dynamic background.

Loading screen now persists until scene is fully loaded, in order to avoid showing the scene before being ready.

Lastly, a small improvement to all items which increase max-health, they’ll also increase your current health by the same percentage.

Fixes

Here’s a list of less important fixes:

Nails get stuck in the right position

Host’s scene should always be synced with clients now

All data saved is loaded on reconnect

Loading screen no longer stuck during connection

Scene rooms no longer overlap

Main menu buttons no longer emit sounds when in-game

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December 5th - Ludum Dare entry but, no updates :(

Sadly, I haven’t had time to work on anything and barely managed to free myself in time for this edition of Ludum Dare.

Check out my entry if you’re interested: Computer-Man RPG

I’ll make sure to add something cool for next time’s update though!

Thanks for reading~

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November 21st - Menu UI, new gun-type, bug-fixes

I haven’t had much time lately so this update is a little weak, although I’m liking the results so far.

Menu UI

I planned on changing the menu’s UI for a while now, it just didn’t feel right, so I came up with something that reminds me of older games where selecting a option changes something in the scene rather than having a static background.

Clicking a button on the base menu brings forth the second menu showing the effect features in the image, while simply hovering on buttons rotates the scene view.

New gun-type

Introducing the Nail Gun as the new starting weapon, it fires a new type of bullets which sticks to the enemy for a while, this behaviour can be useful for future explosive bullets, anchor bullets and such.

Bug-fixes & smaller updates

Here’s a list of things that have been fixed / improved since last update

Fixed

Dodging while dead

No Game Over screen when Server dies before Client

Dodging through walls

Jumping on top of level walls beyond maximum height

Player kept falling for no reason

Added

Display of cooldowns (dodge, acquired abilities, etc.)

New effect on raised shields

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November 7th - Updates, changes, bug-fixes

Updates

Introducing a new rooms system for the map generator which allows rooms of different size to be added into the rooms pool for the generator, this should give more freedom to future environment design choices.

A bit of eye candy to make the game more appealing, here’s a new bloom effect along with better lights, material management and reflection. These effects will be visible on weapons, bullets and various effects(like blood or explosions) throughout the game, a few examples:

Changes

Crosshair has been changes for a smoother, more eye-pleasing effect. It’s probably not definitive yet, so feedback is well appreciated.

Healthbars have been removed from enemies’ heads to achieve a cleaner look, this choice is not yet definitive, though if it will be that way, a new item providing this utility will be added as well.

HUD slightly changed moving usable bombs closer to usable active item for clarity. Names are still randomized.

Notifications have been changed to include more information with better formatting.

Stats UI changed to percentage instead of floating point values.

Items history formatting adapted to notifications’ format.

Bug-fixes & smaller updates

Here’s a list of things that have been fixed / improved since last update

Fixed

Client knock-back not applying on Server

Rooms generated on top of each other

Client getting stuck when losing connection to Server

Enemies spawning inside walls on smaller rooms

Chest outline invisible when chest is closed

Notifications overlapping each other

Added

Outline on closed doors

Lights on weapons effects

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October 24th - Weapon zoom, outline system, new items

Weapon zoom

Weapon zoom is just a change of camera distance depending on the weapon used, ranged weapons usually have less zoom (more distance) than melee weapons.

Outline

I decided to replace the see-through-walls system with an outline that appears when behind walls on players, enemies and items. It feels less confusing and looks better but I might be wrong, feedback is appreciated.

New items

Here’s a screenshot of almost all items currently present in the game:

Most models are gonna get changed but you get the idea. Here’s a video featuring some of the new items effects:

Thanks for reading~.

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October 10th - New items, Perfect Dodge, more Bosses

Items

Since I’ve never showed the first items, here’s what the first 4 items look like when equipped:

Each piece gives a different bonus, for example Helmet makes you shoot better and Gloves make you attack faster.

Then, there were the first prototypes aside from the standard armor pieces you can find around:

This crappy little guy can be quite useful, shoots nearby enemies (model will be changed)

Horns, new gloves, fire feet, red right eye and purple left eye. All these items have their own effects and any item that applies the same effect as another item stacks. Also notice that new Greatsword :>

Lastly, a player wearing other equipment similar to the first armor set, eventually every piece will have its own dedicated model. Each piece does something different, in this case its Boots make you deal AOE damage upon landing and the Helmet heals you when you do a Perfect Dodge.

So, let me explain the new Perfect Dodge mechanic:

Perfect Dodging is as simple as it sounds, a perfectly timed dodge. If you evade an attack moments before it damages you not only you negate its damage, but you also gain a very brief temporary state where all your nearby enemies go 10 times slower and you take no damage. Not every dodge can count as parry though, Perfect Dodge is like a skill, it has its own cooldown and its amount will vary upon how many players you play with.

Bosses

New alternative version of the Crystal Boss

And a new Humanoid Boss:

And lastly, here’s an example of a Boss Battle:

Thanks for reading~.

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September 26th - What are we working on?

It’s been a while since any of us has posted something, I’m not good with words but I’ll try to make an extra effort for our non-existent followers but who knows who’ll read previous posts, right?

From now on I’ll do my best to post an update every 2 weeks on Tuesday, starting with this one.

The lead artist is temporary busy and unable to physically work on models & animations, but he keeps on coming up with sketches and great ideas which I’ll let him show when he’s able to.

Since he’s gonna be absent I thought I’d let you in on what I’m working on.

Bosses: This boss might most likely be scrapped, but until then here’s a teleporting, laser-shooting, giant crystal. I believe it’s a pretty fair challenge for a newbie player, a well timed jump or dodge can let you close your distance unscathed.

Shields: Something I’ve been wanting to talk about for a while. Shields have their own status/element resistance and health, not using the shield will slowly regenerate its health. For now, holding a shield disables secondary attacks, not all weapons can hold shields though, in that case your character will holster the shield on the back and use the weapon two-handedly.

Dodge has been in the game for a while, this is just a little update improving the animation, distance and visual effects.

Abilities: Other than passive items we have active items which act as abilities which you can use when available. As you can see in the screenshot, the ability featured is the same as the boss’s attack, as it will be most likely dropped by that boss.

Enemy variations: Some enemies may spawn with a little difference, enemy variations add variety (duh) to an ordinary enemy by giving them special effects and traits, some may have a drone that shoots bullets at close enemies, others may have a kinetic field which deflects all bullets and so on.

And lastly, a game over view. You can finally lose the game ^^

That’s all. I hope you’ll enjoy these addition, I’ll keep on adding new stuff and hopefully I’ll be able to make more updates. Thanks for reading~.

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(via Mech suit pilot by Wrriter - 3D model)

Coming right back at you people with a slight update on my part of the project and it’s models baby! You all saw my last post on this blog explaining a lot of things and showing little to nothing what did I worked on.

Good news! I am and will be posting my work on the game compiled in scenes like one above. To tease you with what I had been doing and maaaybe input a sneak peek that will be shown as another scene like this!

If you really like my work so far then follow me on sketchfab. I would really appreciate having atleast one follower there for starters ^^

till next time, have a good day!

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Rogue Planet update!

Hello and welcome everyone!

First of all I will be introducing myself and describe a bit what is my role in this project before going into big picture of what I am actually doing and how it looks.

My name is Oliver Wrriter Dlugi but you can call me OTA or Wrriter for short and basically I am the lead designer of our game project. What does it mean? I’m designing most of the stuff that you will see in the game beginning from the basic items to animated NPC’s.

We are currently working on a game project that is voxel based and in the end it will be a rogue-like experience. The player will be going through different biomes fighting his way to survive the onslaught of various enemies tossed in his direction. Defeated monstrosities will occasionally drop a power up item that will provide a passive buff to the player or they will leave behind a unique weapon that could be more useful than the last one we had.

The short backstory behind the game is that it is year 20XX and humanity reached far enough in technology to maintain a nano-millimeter perfect hyper jump devices that are used to colonize planets that can sustain life. One of the ships have miscalculated its distance and in effect half of the ship got destroyed after the jump leaving everything stranded for good. The player is being awoken from his cryopod by a scientist survivalist just to escape the infested remains of the spaceship and survive in a new world.

As said earlier there will be plenty of power ups for the player to pick up and made himself stronger alongside a big list of weapons with various mechanics attached to them. Beginning from a simple wrench, getting a molten hammer and maybe ending with a nitrogenthrower. It’s all up to the players play style what weapons they will take and they can have only 2 at a time.

I was originally here to talk only about my part and that is the design of the game and talking how is my work going on while giving some examples of what is being currently produced. There is literally no post here explaining anything at all so I felt like making such- sorry Wolfo.

Nonetheless. I will provide you some screenshots of my creatures to make this post more interesting all along.

First of all lets take a look at an early and a really small concept of an alien worm that is peeking from the ground, shooting projectiles at the player and biting them if they get to close.

^ Going from left to right there are basically raw sketches and an attempt on making a kinda full image where the most important parts are the gun, when it’s alive and supposedly dead. Below those two last images are sketches on how its segments should be built and how the mouth should look like. 

^ A lot of segments that do not make that much sense yet, do they? Allow me to show you how it all looks when every part is attached together.

Isn’t it pretty? The black parts gaping out on its segments are completely intentional and it gives only a bit more live in my opinion, showing the black flesh beneath the purple!

that is my first touch on remaking the very, very, VERY basic worm that one member of our group made earlier on just for stress testing..

I think I made a good job reworking it.

Before ending this post I am thankful to anyone that stumbled upon any post from this blog even without leaving a like or rebloging anything. However I am pleading you to leave a like and share this with your friends if you’re really beginning to be interested in this game project.

I am but a simple gamer that loves the genre MOBA but this game as how it looks right now I would even pay to play it when it is fully done. The work we had done already is incredible and I will keep you peps up to date from my designing part to show how awesome things will look like!

Thank you everyone for your attention and leave a like and share this with your friends if you liked it. It will help us a lot! Thank you!

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Gameplay of a randomly generated map & other stuff

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Auto-climb edge

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Weapons Showcasing

Here’s a video showcasing almost all of the currently available weapons:

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Elemental Effects

More effects may be added in the future.

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Gameplay

I’ll talk about the game’s theme within the next posts, for now here’s a brief video showing some combat:

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Welcome

Welcome to Rogue Planet’s blog. Development started about 1 week ago, here you’ll receive updates about the game regarding mechanics, concept art and all that cool stuff.

Hope you’ll like it.