Mavin Cooper and the Cuboid Conspiracy

[MurrayL]

I'm proud to officially announce the production of Marvin Cooper and the Cuboid Conspiracy!

Synopsis
You play an ageing space pioneer, exploring the galaxy for alien artefacts in the hope of finally getting enough pay to retire.

You have a terrible record of keeping your assistants alive, and your flying skills leave a lot to be desired, but you refuse to take anything but the most dangerous jobs. One day you pick a job that leads you to a far-off planet, and you begin to unravel a conspiracy to bring down the human empire from within.





This game will have:

• Full colour art!
  
• 1024x768 resolution!
  
• Voice acting!
  
• A full digital soundtrack!
  
• A great storyline!
  
• More facial hair than you can shake a stick at!
  

Progress Report
Background Art - 95%
Character Art - 15%
Interface Design - 85%
Scripting - 30%
Music/Sound - 0%



I've been working steadily on this game since the summer, and believe me when I say the pre-production for this game amounts to a very large heap in the middle of the room.

The entire storyline is planned from start to finish, including every cutscene and crucial room interaction. I've also scripted the full dialogue for the first half of the game, continuing on when I get that far in development.

I've pretty much done all the background art, just some extra bits and pieces left to finish off.
The characters are my weak spot, I'll admit, in terms of my own inability to draw humans. Nevertheless, I've completely animated the main character and his (first) sidekick in just a week, so I'm confident it won't be a problem.

Music and sound have yet to be started, but I will be doing complete voice acting throughout the game, as well as a fully digitised soundtrack.

[arj0n]

Nice character art

[gameguru]

 
The sprites look good but are they animated nicely?
Could you possibly show us an animation?

[MurrayL]

Sorry about the slight jump between the first and last frames; I'm not quite sure why it's doing that but it certainly doesn't do it in-game
Hopefully it gives you an idea about the animation, anyway.

Also, here's one of the full size frames (complete with transparency).

[CosmoQueen]

Very very cool! I like it a lot

[MurrayL]

New promo image, hot off the press!

[arj0n]

Wow, a giant evil Elmo 

[PuNKKoMmANDO77]

very nice , i already love the characters

[MurrayL]

Sorry for lack of updates lately - being a lowly student all of my assignments suddenly crept up on me.

Fear not, though! They are almost conquered and I will return to work forthwith!

[MurrayL]

I'm very, very sorry for the lack of activity!!

University is a big priority, unfortunately, and I just plain ran out of time to do all the things I wanted. Nevertheless, the summer holidays are upon us. With this post, I am proud to drag Marvin Cooper out from the dead (or stasis, at least) and straight back into active, daily development.



Yes.

[MurrayL]

"We find it very reasonably priced. For inedible slop."

[Ubel]

Good job so far. Looking excellent!

[Bulbapuck]

oh I am loving the looks of this

Can't wait.

[MurrayL]

Check out a snippet of gameplay at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6_NncL6T1w

Apologies for the poor quality; I only made the video to show to a friend, but I figured I may as well stick it up here!
And no, there's no sound and no music. I'm going to do that once the entire rest of the game is finished. It's low priority compared to gameplay.

[Saberteeth]

Looks great! 

[MurrayL]

Not much, I guess, but I spent today doing the rest of the GUI.

[tzachs]

Am I to understand from the GUI, that the game will feature voice acting as well?
Looks very cool!

[Igor Hardy]

Really cool character art. That crazy move from the video footage nicely animated as well.

[xenogia]

Definitely looking forward to your release.  I love the visual style that your going for

[MurrayL]

Am I to understand from the GUI, that the game will feature voice acting as well?

Yep! On release I'm aiming to have not only a full stereo soundtrack, but also a complete voice pack. No half-measures here!

Really cool character art. That crazy move from the video footage nicely animated as well.

Thanks! I'm never too sure of my character animation skills, so I apologise in advance for anything looking a little odd; but I'm determined to do everything myself with no outside help.

Definitely looking forward to your release.  I love the visual style that your going for

Thank you - it's good to know people like the style. To be honest, I'm just drawing how I would normally; so it's nice to hear that I can get away with it!