#aylo games

[jillianogle]

The next robot, a mini-rover prototype in ackshun!

[jillianogle]

Super early gameplay video of PolyKnights prototype. Basically the sword people are just trying to protect the torch person. This is all super rough of course, but i figure i would share.

Thanks again jeremyku for helping out so far! 

Also, Dev stream is currently up: http://www.twitch.tv/aylojill So far i've had it up almost every day. I will try to keep it that way.

[jillianogle]

Doing some collaboration with http://jeremyku.tumblr.com/ who is a kick ass artist. He generously has provided me a cool model to play with. 

I've been doing nearly nothing but coding the last 3 or 4 months in order to teach myself. I suppose immersion is the best way to do it. I've made a few small projects in order to learn, but last week i started on something that might be more sizable. I love co-op games like Protect Me Knight, where you can just hack n slash a bunch of monsters to death with your friends (Local multiplayer). So i figured i'd try something in a similar vein, but with a lot more monsters... maybe. Simple classes, good controls (trying to pull from Fat Princess)... just fun to play. 

My other major source of inspiration is a lesser known japanese ps2 game called Ikusagami, or "Demon Chaos". It's a different take on the Dynasty warriors type genre, except instead where there are dozens of enemies, Ikusagami has battles where you literally fight tens of thousands. For a ps2 game, the way they were able to do this was quite impressive. Anyway, i would love to achieve that sort of epicness, but i've already ran into collision pair limits in Unity, which means i must either be more clever, or write my own custom physics. 

I'll be doing the Indie Omega Jam for another 2 weeks. Check us out: http://omegajam.com/  I would be streaming today, except i seem to be having trouble getting my Mac to stream. Wirecast kinda sucks, and my Elgato does not work with my Cintiq. 

Update: My livestream is live for today: http://www.twitch.tv/aylojill

Anyone here have any experience streaming from Mac? I need solution that doesn't make it impossible to work due to lag. 

Oh working title? Uhm... i named the project folder Polyknights. Gonna get back to it!

[jillianogle]

Along with Corta, i've been working on side projects to teach myself to code in C# for unity. I was having fun with Unity's new sprite editor feature. This is from a game i made originally with Game Salad, but i found their tool to be quite limited. So far this new prototype is functionally superior to the old version of the game i couldn't quite polish enough to put out on the app store.

Bird Animation Credit: Robert Iza

[jillianogle]

So the game has been coming along pretty quickly, however i haven't felt entirely settled with the art style for Battle Buddies. I've been picking away at what could be a better look / idea to go with the game, so i ended up with the above concepts. I made at least one of the characters in 3d already, and now i wanna lock down a style for environments. Once i get this stuff jiving together, We'll push all this stuff into the game. The environment stuff above is in illustrator, but yea it should be 3d.

I also named the main character Corta, since we were used to calling the character the "Core", but Corta sounded cuter. I will now hereby refer to this project as Corta, since i really don't like the name Battle Buddies ; P

[jillianogle]

Uploaded some gameplay video of our tactical game. You can see it in action, though i don't know how well you can make out whats going on. We are only about 2 months in, so we are trying out a lot of different ideas more than anything. A lot of the UI needed to tell you what's what isn't there, so stuff just kinda happens.  We also had some bugs with the movement, so if you see a lot of hopping around, thats why. 

[jillianogle]

Redid the main song for my game. This one plays in the first set of puzzles. Hopefully it's good : P