Swarm Development: Postmortem

[Baron]

Hey Baron do you think you can send us the source? Maybe we can work on different parts and send them into you.

That would get a little messy, in my opinion, since I would then have to reintegrate everyone's work into one game again.  Also, I'm not going to lie to you, this is a pretty hacked job behind the scenes.  It works, yes, but it's not pretty.  Frankly I'd be embarrassed to release the source to public mockery scrutiny.

No, what I'm looking for now is a group of writer/editors to converge on the written aspects of the plot and "optimize" them.

[Crimson Wizard]

Hey Baron do you think you can send us the source? Maybe we can work on different parts and send them into you.

That would get a little messy, in my opinion, since I would then have to reintegrate everyone's work into one game again. 

Also this is pointless, IMO. You don't need game source project to draw art, write text and compose music. You'll need project only when you are gathering all the work together and code scripts (though scripts may as well be written in the external text editor ).

[Tabata]

- If you switch off the light and click on the door afterwards, he isn't walking to the door (it's more like being teleported).

The teleport was implemented because there was a suggestion that clicking on an (unblocked) exit should result in automatically going to the next screen, instead of waiting for Merrick to slowly saunter across the screen.  I was under the impression that we were moving towards this for all exits, but do you feel the teleporting breaks some of the continuity of the game?

I think, that teleporting is not needed for this short game since you don't need to walk around for hours (only my very personal opinion).
I don't mind the teleporting. It fit's to the game but to be honest, I went through all of the rooms forth and back several times and this was the only „teleporting“ Merrick did (So I might have done something wrong).
If it is a lot of trouble to be fixed or needed for some other actions to work properly, I wouldn't mind if you let it, as it is now.


btw. - How about your last screeny for the GiP-Thread to tell them all, that the swarm is still swarming?

[Big GC]

Im not a swarm member and only tripped over this thread just now. Looks very cool.

I did a quick alternative firing sequence for soilders. (gif animator distorts the colours a little)



Nice clean originals in png (as taken from this thread + modified firing frame).

[Baron]

Ooo!  I love the light-flashes but I'm not sure about the shoulder-shaking....  But since we're trying to get as many fingers in this pie as possible I can guarantee you that a portion of your work will appear in the game.  Thanks!

[Big GC]

Cheers - use what you need or want to keep. Or none at all Im easy.

More?? How about a death scene





and the png's

[Baron]

Wow, that's.....not in the script  :o.
      I can't guarantee that this will make it into the game at this point but we'll see.

[Big GC]

Oh, I was thinking

Spoiler

I thought of it as a death sequence when draculator was biting the guards at the end befor the sisters crashed the party - my bad but I though I read back a few pages that the soilders needed a death/falling animation?

[close]

:o

[Wonkyth]

Damn that's cool, though!  :o

[Tabata]

@ Big GC:

...
... Those guards are still awkward.  They really should face the door, maybe kneel.  Standing is fine when shooting but it's a little unbelievable as it is now.  And the death "animation" really needs some help (play build, above, for details) ...

So I think the problem isn't your fine animation, but the direction of the guard, because they won't got bitten, when shooting 

Do you have the time and lust, to do another of your awesome animation for the swarm?   

[Baron]

Yeah, sorry for not being clear.  As Tabata said, the puzzle calls for the guards to be caught by surprise.  Ideally they would be facing the door (which will animate with light flashes, showing the fire-fight beyond between the robot monster and presumably yet more guards.  Merrick must surprise them from behind, otherwise they shoot him.
    Although, to be fair, the way the blood squirted I originally thought the soldier was being shot  :.
    Be that as it may, however, if that's a biting animation we'll just go with it since, as Wonkyth+ points out, it is an awesome animation!  Maybe this particular guard is quick enough to turn around, but still gets bitten?  We'll just make sure the others are caught in their crouching/door facing positions (anybody?)

[Big GC]

Cool, I get it now (I think).  

It should look more like these Soilders facing the door



edit:

All righty bed time now but first this

[Tabata]

@ Big GC:                

[TomatoesInTheHead]

Great animations!

And I'm sure we can use the first one too if we flip it or position the guard on the right spot.

[Big GC]

Cheers. I hope they can help finish this off for y'all

To complete the trilogy





all the png's





and the third guard in his "facing the door pose" from the first death scene animation

[Baron]

Niiiiiiiiice!  Awesome stuff, Big GC!

[Big GC]

Just looking at the first post and what was left to do.

The laser control stuck out at me.

The laser room is such a wondeful room and looks complete as it is, so I was wondering if a simple keypad would work for the laser.
To me the unit circled is "wired" into the laser anyway.


I thought to put a simple key pad onto it would sufice.



I would animate the pad to draw attention to it, and mabey when looking at the unit in the script it would be described as the lasers contol unit and resonator housing ... or something along those lines.





PNG's

just a thought

[TomatoesInTheHead]

Looks nice in general, it's only in the wrong resolution now (as you've put it in the second image)

[Big GC]

Looks nice in general, it's only in the wrong resolution now (as you've put it in the second image)

ooops! I just cut and pasted the panel into a screen grab, but didnt resize the background correctly.

[Big GC]

April 30 Edit:

3) Merrick side level take (reach out) (hopefully we can script it that only side views are

For consideration by the swarm