First shot of the new engine:

I'm aiming for a rock solid 60fps.

The engine now has dynamic lighting and weird shadow casters and cube maps. You can see in the above image the lighting and shadow debug images top left.

So in the above shot you can see some trees and a torch stand with dynamic particle fire.

Everything is custom written. there is no unity, no unreal, no 3dsmax or maya

it's all a work in progress. Just took time off to work on the title, logo and icon

but this is a test of character design:

It's sort of 2d in 3d.

If you look closely at the archway you can see the floor textures being re-used as stone textures

Progress for me is pretty slow so far, but this is my first game jam and i'm proud of this so far. this is my main character, Russ and his house. I just finished creating that seamless grass texture and will be moving on to texturing the house and then creating more props.

I had to google Paper Mario (I haven't played it), but yep, there are definite visual similarities. (Note to self: Don't try and copy Paper Mario, lol).

I like your grass texture - making repeating textures that don't 'jump' or have seams is not an easy task, Keep up the great work :)

for todays pic. I thought I'd show something completely different...

work in progress from paper idea to 3d:

This will be the 'Nomicron', a triptych containing 'stuff'. don't know what stuff, but it will be the base portal into the game, a sort of magic box of things.

What is nice is this gives everyone an idea of how simple the models are. I haven't even thought about how it will all fit together yet, but you can see the hinges and how the box is supposed to work...

This is my early prototype. When the theme was announced the first game that came into my mind was a RPG call Half Minute Hero. I therefore decided to try recreating the game mechanic and see how to go from there.

The game now basically have a timer that count down from 30 sec. The player have to kill the Boss enemy before the timer reach zero or else the game will reset from and the player have to start over.

I though it was simple but I encounter lot of problems to go from world screen to combat screen. I want to keep the world scene in the background. I am using Unity and Playmaker visual scripting. I can't really do much coding in C# as I am not a programmer.

This basic prototype is still incomplete. When done, I would see whether to add something unique, improve or scrap the whole thing and redo with a new idea.

Thank you.

http://i.imgur.com/8YFdn8U.png

decided to spend the 1st week on art and the 2nd two on code. this is progress for day 3. the art was made in blender, rendering without antialiasing and toon shaders to get that pixel art effect

Day 1 down!

So I have a game idea, basically a procedurally generated zelda dungeon, with a key room, boss room, 30 seconds to get through it but each enemy you kill, add time, each time you get hit, remove time, you die when the timer hits 0.

I'm a little concerned the idea isn't very unique, but it does give me an opportunity to play with procedural level design.

I spent the night brute forcing a level generator, I'm sure there's better less error prone ways of doing it but here's what 50 runs gave me with 10 tile dungeons, key placed in the back half of the tiles.  (The green tile is the player spawn, gold is the key room, red is the boss room, black with normal enemy spawns).

I'll spend some more time on the algorithm tomorrow but barring a few bugs I can see (boss room isn't always last) etc. I'll build some place holder rooms and generate actual maps this week, I should be starting player controls and enemy ai this weekend. So each room will be a designed  puzzle but the overall map is procedural. I'll post more details in the  discord unity channel if anyone's interested. 

Thanks!

My 2nd update, I've created trees and multiple textures. I've also done work on the controller and animations for Russ.

I thought for todays pic I'd show something moving....

I now need to start work on writing a timeline control. at the moment the opening is controlled by the x mouse position

Skeleton enemy for my game.  Hope it's going well for everybody! :D

Day 2:

Merged the level generation into creating a 3d map.

I'm just adding doors to intersecting rooms and walls to non-intersections. I'll modify this to add some walls to non-critical paths. Then move on to enemies on the weekend. I'm not 100% tied to the 3d levels though. I'm a really poor 3d artist so we'll see where I land.