#flat space

[baltazark-blog]

TONAL SEPARATION in flat space. Maintaining flat space requires a reduction of the gray scale range within the picture. Remember, brighter objects usually appear closer and darker objects seem farther away.

To use tonal separation to flatten the space you will need to keep the tones in a limited range. 

[baltazark-blog]

FLAT PLANE - no depth. no distortion of lines or shapes. eye level. no vanishing point.

[dev-more-blog]

Working on some improvements, which didnt make it in furst release, until the month is over

[dev-more-blog]

Playable flat space game for 1gam. Use chrome/chromium, luke.

[dev-more-blog]

Flat space week 2 review

This is the last review, because the game is ready to the extent when I can say it is ready and i can move on. It is kinda funny how the idea morphed during these 2 weeks. I started with an idea of an open world sandbox where you have to run away from expanding black hole or supernova or whatever, then I understood that its a) too complex b) it lacks motivation. Because sandbox in a soon-to-be apocalypse world is meaningless. Instead of open world with infinite possibilities you have marauder simulator with limited time. So the idea morphed into asteroid miner escaping from the blackhole. I kinda like this idea, but it was too complex for a week too: I planned making 5 levels including tutorial and pulsars and "rogue colonies", where instead of using the mining torpedo for mining asteroids, you would have to use it against rogue living beings, which meant more sprites and more logic for all these poor guys. So instead I cut all these features to concentrate on the core feature: smashing asteroids with torpedo. Yes, its a little less spectacular, there are just two "stages" in all the game: you collect the fuel, then you waste it while flying all the way home at light speed, but it is here, while all the games Ive planned at first are still to be implemented by someone else.

[dev-more-blog]

Week results

I feel that i should review previous week results now.

On friday Ive started a little game "flat space".

This is my first attempt to create a game for one game a month.

I was inspired by dune universe, where navigators consume spice to navigate through space. They need it because it is hard for human to take in account all the objects movements on the route.

So, i decided to take that idea and rename spice to luck (Luck is the topic of november 1gam).

In my game, you need luck in order to navigate through space during "jump". You can jump with no luck or with semi-full supply of luck, but then you will probably (the probability depends on amount of luck you have) have to solve a small puzzle-like minigame (not programed yet).

During these 3 days, Ive done pretty big job: the game now has tutorial with texts and triggers, parallax background, torpedo launcher, which can smash asteroids to some fuel and luck fragments and asteroids themselves, which can collide with ship, torpedo or with each other. Asteroid-asteroid collision can lead either to creation of single bigger asteroid or to creation of two smaller ones, depending on sizes of asteroids and some randomness.

Now im planning to finish tutorial level, and add space jumps. I have an idea for a pretty cool effect (at least it is cool in my head) inspired by 2000s Supernova movie. Cant wait to implement it all =)

[ni-japan]

Imperial Palace grounds, Tokyo, Japan