Will continue to add more section pieces which in turn adds variation into the levels.  I can hopefully add some more variations of existing gadgets.  Like a 9 turreted turret for starters.

The 2 screenies above show the section list, the sections spawned, the gadget list  and gadgets spawned.  Hopefully i can get it finished soon.

In the beginning i was going to make all the levels in a 3D editor and save to .x format to be loaded up later in the game engine. This was a pretty foolish idea, as i found out after i tried making levels in a 3D modeler :/ I mean it’s not impossible but it’s hard, slow and frustrating to say the least. So i got my half finished terrain editor (which i will be finishing soon) and was able to recycle a lot of code out of it. I had a Gui that i could simply alter and use for the new editor, this saved me a hell of a lot of time.

Where i am now

The level editor is basically complete now, although i keep adding more sections to it. I am so glad i made this editor because i can now create levels very rapidly and easily. This also means i can ask other people to make levels for me. It may be released with the game so people can share levels with each other over the internet too.

To sum up what i have just said, level projects can be made, saved, and exported directly into the game engine and then played. Now working on making the “Gadget Tab”. Which will be a list box of all the available gadgets listed in it. I can then place gadgets in the level and they will be loaded into the game engine.

Wont be long now before i can release the game i hope

From this point onward

• Keep adding feature to the level editor
• Finish the gadgets menu
• Finish the editor itself!
• Make about 100 levels
• Tidy up and polish existing game features
• Get a few testers to play about with it and give feed back
• Tidy up and polish for second time, maybe add more feature to game and editor (e.g. new gadgets)
• Test again
• Release

Shouldn’t take more than 2 months now but it’s not like i have been working full time on it anyway. I would guess anywhere from 2-4 months until completion.

Going to add in the starting position and finish position also. Then hopefully make a few basic levels and get them cycling round (complete level, progress to next).

Apart from a star counter box, what other stuff should i add do you think? I’ll add in a bullet time meter but i was wondering if there is some other stuff i should add? This might seem like a dumb question but i haven’t been able to step back, take a look and figure these things out.

Ideas/suggestions welcome

Hopefully i can post some screens of the first few levels within the coming days.

laters

New stuff:

Bullet time
Spawn stars and collect them (will make them savable and loadable soon)
Spawn Meteor Shower Trigger
Make sphere smoke

See what people are saying about the Sphere, Thread for sphere.

As the player you control a sphere/ball and have to navigate it through the levels to a goal within a certain time. There are currently a few contraptions that can either help the player get to the goal faster or can slow the player’s progress down.

So far the contraptions are a:

Booster – Boosts the players speed, seen in many games of many genres

Blower – A fan inset into the floor which will blow the player in an upward direction

Teleporter – Self explanatory

Turret – Fires bullets at the player and knocks the player off course, can be a nuisance on some of the harder to navigate areas.

I plan to add more contraptions and am open to suggestions

Bullet time will play a roll too and i think people will like this feature as it’s so cool!

check the video here