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DevReport #1 - VirusMania

Friday, 13. June 2008 9:10

What’s new:

  • Two new types of viruses
  • When they touch each other, they fuse to a new virus
  • Transition animation when the 2 viruses fuse into the new one
  • New kind of movement, they “snip” through the vein now

Currently working on:

  • Camera movement
  • New player movement

virus hearts
(I hope it’s not AIDS oO)

Thema: Torque, VirusMania | Kommentare (0) | Autor: $Kiyaku

Prototype #1 - VirusMania

Thursday, 12. June 2008 9:29

It’s kinda funny. I started with the idea i didn’t like that much cause the game idea was too simple and boring somehow. But now i like it a lot since i start working on it. I have to take care that it doesn’t end in “featureities” (a sickness of adding too many features 8D) that makes the game too big to finish fast enough.

The game started like this:

You are “something” and have to avoid “something else” by navigate through this “something else” with your mouse. Collect items to get points but as more items you collect as more “somethings elses” will appear!

Yeah, very basic. I decided to use a Virus theme for this kind of game. Okay so i started working on it. I created virus which are floating around, a white blood cell as player and… well, what the hell should a white blood cell “collect” to get points? They usually don’t eat candy or collect money. No problem, i just have to go to www.wikipedia.com and enter the super-duper keyword “leukocytes”!
VERY BIG MISTAKE!

I started reading some sentences and couldn’t stop reading, it was too interesting. After an hour i learned so many new things about the world, leukocytes and amoebas that my whole view of life turned 180° - oh noes!

I got like trilliatisticion™ new ideas for this game that i’m kinda scared to add new features and on the other hand bored to add no new features. Anyway, i changed some basic stuff though. Like - VIRUS MUTATION.
Yeah, exactly. Instead of having one sort of virus, i now have several sorts of viruses. That’s not all, nono, they even can mutate to new kind of virus. They only have to get close enough and BAM, new kind of virus floating around, making your life harder.

virus evolution

It’s really fun to see the viruses grow and grow and become stronger.
I only have one problem right now - what the hell should the player do against all those viruses? Just getting more DNA’s, become stronger and eat them? Kinda boring if you ask me.

Well i’m still trying to find a good gameplay to destroy the viruses. So if anyone has an idea, please let me know *looking at ERROR014*.

It’s still early here and i’m sleepy so if i made too many mistakes in my english text, please leave me a comment so i can correct it - Thanks for reading!

virusmania

Thema: Torque, VirusMania | Kommentare (0) | Autor: $Kiyaku