"2d" shooter

English:
I worked on this project for about four weeks and I have to confess that I haven`t nearly reached in this time what I wanted to reach so please notice that neither models nor other 2d-graphics are final.

The project working title is "p.i. (private investigator) storys" what realy sounds strange so I will think about it in the next few weeks (I`m realy happy about any suggestions^^).
The game is suppost to have a cartoon look just like all these marvel comics so I kept everything in black and white colours.
Like in the movie/comic "sin city" I only coloured things that are suppost to get your attention.
Like in Max Payne the story is told in comic strips that appear between level changes.

Story:
The story is realy simple and I don`t expect a WOW - effect so here is only a realy short version:
The hero, a private investigator, has a new "customer" who wants him to get as much informations about some person as possible.
This sounds like an easy job so he accepts.
But the person he observes gets shot.
Now he trys to find out more about the killers.

What is a 360° shooter?
Well... a 360° shooter is a game where you are able to shoot and aim with your mouse in 360° around the player.

One side note:
I got inspired by one of those 360° shooters on newgrounds so the graphics realy look like in one of those games (I`m searching for the link).
So I will have to change the player graphics realy soon.

German:
Ich arbeite erst vier Wochen an diesem Projekt und muss zugeben, dass ich nichts von dem das ich mir vorgenommen habe erreicht habe.
Ich bitte Sie daher zu beachten, dass weder Models noch andere Grafiken final sind.

Das Projekt das ich Ihnen nun vorstelle trägt den Titel „P.I. (Privat Detektiv) storys“ . Ich weiß das der Titel nach nichts klingt, daher suche ich im Moment noch nach einem neuen Namen.
Ich habe mich bemüht dem Spiel einen Comic-look zu verpassen, wie man ihn aus den Marvel comcis kennt. Daher ist das Spiel in schwar und weiß gehalten.
Wichtige Objekten habe ich dennoch wie in Sin City ein wenig Farbe verpasst.
Wie in Max Payne wird die simple Geschichte i Form von Comic-Strips zwischen den Missionen weiter erzählt.

Die Geschichte:
Die Geschichte ist relativ simpel, also fasse ich mich kurz:
Der Held, ein Privat Detektiv, bekommt den Auftrag eine Person zu beschatten.
Als diese Zielperson jedoch während eines Kampfes erschossen wird, versucht der Held auf eigene Faust mehr über die Mörder i Erfahrung zu bringen.

Was ist das für ein Spiel?
Das Spiel ist ein 360° shooter, bei dem man mit der Maus rund um den Spieler herum zielen und schiessen kann.
Der Rest ist aus allen anderen 2d-sidescrollern bekannt.

Bemerkung:
Die verwendeten Grafiken sind nicht 100% meinem Kopf entsprungen (inspiriert von 360° shootern von Newgrounds), daher werde ich so schnell wie möglich ein neues Design für die Spielfiguren entwerfen.

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Screenshots:
If the screens wont show up please copy and paste the links in the addresbar.

screen1
Screenshot made by one of my "alphatesters"^^...

screen2
I`m still working on a better A.I.

screen3
The sword has two "attack modes".

screen4

screen5

screen6

screen7
This is a screenshot from my "Hero-Editor" that may be included in the final game. (YAY! It`s Groucho Marx!!! )

All these ingame screens are made from the "survival mode" in which the player has to survive as many enemys as possible.
I want to wait to post screens from the story mode till I have completed the first two levels.

Video:
If you like the screens watch my ingame fight(survival mode):
video
Note: the file is about 15mb big.

I hope that I will get lots of comments^^!

~Gurke

EDIT: Oh.. it`s fake 2d!

...hui... looks very funny.... reminds me on Madness interactive...

The graphic style looks pretty nice and the aiming system is very nice too =D. That would probably be a hit if it was multiplayer enabled.

Cool!
Genial einfache Idee und gute Umsetzung.
Wenn du Jemanden brauchst der Level baut, pm an mich...

mercuryus

Thanks guys for the nice words!
I have also thought about makeing a multiplayer version but I still have to work on the singleplayer scripts that I want to finish before I start working on a multiplayer script.
The graphics will be improved soon and I will make a more comic-like GUI.
I also have to change some things in the A.I. but I think that I will be able to show a first demo-version soon!
When this game realy gets finished it will be ofcourse freeware.

@mercuryus:
Danke für das Kompliment!
Ich arbeite an dem Spiel nur nebenbei (neben Cybras) und wollte aus dem ganzen nur ein kleines freeware Spielchen machen (keinen großen Zeitrahmen für das Spiel eingeplant), aber wenn ich mal Hilfe brauche wende ich mich zuerst an dich!

~Gurke

p.S.: Achja, ab nun sind auch auf meiner Seite ein paar kleinerer Informationen über das Spiel zu finden.

find ich sehr cool ^^ vielleicht liegts an mir aber ich glaube die kamera könnte ein bisschen mehr distanz vertragen, oder? ich find das n tick zu nah dran. ansonsten sehr cool ^^

Looks like in Screenshot 3 they are hugging, dancing, or doing something rather than fighting. (Sorry just had to put that out there, hehe). For a 2D game it doesn't look to bad, graphics and effects don't like to bad either. Making a larger level (since seeing the video only makes it look like it's very small not to wide, you should widen it up and make more less a full level out of it. Give the player room to adventure around a bit.

Making the game more interactive, maybe a 2-Player mode or even an online Multiplayer mode would really intensify the gameplay! On top of all that you have a good project going, could use it's improvements but nonetheless you have something to show! Good job, and good luck!

Thanks again^^!
@ISG:
Yeah the enemy A.I. is not the best^^! I made the A.I. in less than two hours so there are lots things that have to be changed^^' ...
The enemys have to take some steps backwards or even run away if the player gets near them with the sword.
At the moment I am working on a script to make the enemy hide behind crates so they can`t get hit by the player (pretty much bugs have to be fixed ).
Oh and the level ist like I already mentioned from the survival mode.
In this mode the player has to kill as much enemys as possible before he gets killed so the level is just a small arena.
The levels I`m working on at the moment (for the story mode) are much bigger than that.
I hope that I wil be able to post some screens soon!
Like I said in the last post I was already thinking about a multiplayer mode but before I want to finish the singleplayer scripts^^.

Well... now I want to take the chance to present you a new player model I made (took me only 30 minutes so don`t expect much^^):
new model
Like I said the game has something to do with private investigators so I made the ugly boy I had before look a little bit more like one of them.
Please tell me how you guys like it!


@Endgegner:
Yeah you are right the camera needs a little bit more distance.
How about this:
new distance
Is this better or should the camera distance be smaller?

~Gurke

Hi Gurke!

Ein toter Gegner sollte (hin & wieder) ein "goodie" (ammo/health) hinterlassen.
So bekommt man als Spieler eine Belohnung und hat mehr Spass...

A dead enemy should leave a "goodie". So the player gets a reward and is more happy!

mercuryus

aaah yes looks way better ^^ it just felt very small and you didn't have enough space to see enemies and stuff. with bigger levels, that's gonna be a lot of fun ^^ well done, keep it up!

and the new character looks cool, as well.

Yeah I totally forgot to implent a "goodie drop".
The first level is nearly half finished and I hope to continue working on it very soon but I have some nasty school problems to solve at the moment (next year I`m going to write my final exams so I have to work hard at the mom) so I won`t be able to work on it till the weekend.
I also want to present some new enemy types this weekend so I`ll have lots of work to do^^!

~Gurke

Na von wegen Grafik is net vorhanden, also ich finde's schon sehr stylisch wie's ausschaut.

Und die Idee sowas mit GS zu machen ist allemals klasse!

I said that I wantd to show the first new screens at the weekend but I found an screenshot that I already made so I think I can show it now.
There is nothing special here its just a new enemy type a diver (there will be a small harbour and submarine level^^):
diver
The airtank on the back of the enemy still looks kind of strange but I will fix that. Like you might notice the diver wears normal shoes instead of fins(I will fix that too^^).
The diver will also get a new weapon type the harpoon.

@shorevietnam:
Danke sehr^^.
Naja ich bin eigentlich immer nur für scripts zuständig gewesen und habe allerhöchstens simple Testgrafiken erstellt, daher freue ich mich jetzt besonders über so ein Lob^^!

~Gurke

Ja ich weiss au net, ich finde die Figuren voll geil, der Taucher auch echt super!

Me too, keep it up!

Thanks again you two^^.

Well... I worked on the first level but it is still not nearly finished.
BUT this does not have to meen that I can`t show some screens to you so you can give me some tips for the enviroment of the game.

Here they are:
screen10
Here is where everything starts. The apartment (at the moment without furniture)
where the hero observes his "customer" (notice the camera on the left side of the picture^^).
At first this may look pretty confusing (you can see the house front, some bricks from the wall and the floor).

screen11
Ofcourse he gets interrupted and has to flee from the building.

screen12
Well.. the elevator (yes the elevator 'crashs' and the player has to defeat some enemys *nothing new I know*).

screen13
The elevator doesn`t move anymore so the only way to get out is the ...ummm... lets call it 'fire stairs' (please tell me what they are realy called^^).

screen14
At the ground his pursuer are still there (please ignore the van! It`s still in work!).

screen15
The hunt through the backyard with some ugly fences^^! Yeah I also don`t know why there is a fire-hydrant in the backyard ...

Now I want to know what YOU think about it.
I need as much critic as possible so I can optimise the game.

~Gurke

Well first of all I wanna congratz you
it's look quite amazing really
Now my C&C:
-the view where you can see the ammo of all your guns is abit
annoying, it's hanging there somewhere in midair so try and put the
view in a corner or sort like
-The blood effects can be even 'worser', I mean that when you are hit or the enemy is been hit you could me him bleed like hell and that reminds me when your are shot, try to 'stick' the blood to the walls or
to sort like when it emerges out of a body
-I think you could make the elevator even better, I don't really see the difference between the walls or the elevator, so try to make it look more like an elevator
-For screen 15, try the give some more background creativity
-But for the rest IT'S like I already said, fanstastique !!!!!!

I hope your creative mind agrea's with my 'creative' mind

Cheers

Frazzle

Hi frazzle,
at first I want to thank you for your kind words.
Yeah you are right the ammo panel is realy annoying but it is only a testpanel so it will be replaced anyway^^.
I want to keep the game nearly gui free (the player can switch the panels on by pressing a certain key or when he looses life or shoots).

To the blood topic: I`m not a friend of realy violent games (like postal, doom etc.) and I don`t care whether there is lots of blood or not but I was asked this very often by my friends who tested the game so I maybe realy should give it a little bit more blood.
The game should keep it`s comic style (I will post one of the comics that link the levels soon) and the game should not get too 'serious'.

You are right the elevator is not finished at all. It needs a cabine or at least some sort of "walls" to seperate the elevator from the rest of the game^^.

I also want to include a skyline in the background of the level but the result I got is not good enough but I will work on it^^!

By the way: I noticed that my 'hero' hasn`t got a name till now.
What about 'Wayne'?^^
Please post more comments!
If you guys loose the interrest in my game there is no reason to continue working on it.

~Gurke

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Please post more comments!
If you guys loose the interrest in my game there is no reason to continue working on it.

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I totaly disagrea with you Gurke, all the project you or anyone
works on is not only for this 3DGS community but in the first place
BECAUSE YOU WANT TO AND THAT IT INTERESTS YOU !!!!
I think there are to many people who are basing them selfs on the opposite of my
statement

Well back to your game now, I think the name is fine, Wayne
did you get the inspiration from the Cramp Twins because one of the twins is named Wayne and also is kinda violent
I forgot to say in my last post to say that the choise is up to
you about the topic blood so I think it's a good idea to not implant much
blood because of the comic style !!!!
Well my creative mind has got that dayely nucliar breakdown again ^^

Cheers

Frazzle