Surry, but discussing graphics in this state of work makes me very angry.
He shows us a very perfect style of action, path finding, and a very harmonic code. That is just awesome!

People who discuss the graphic aspects seem to out themselfs as non developers in a very hard way.

You can buy very good graphics, models, sounds - just everything in this range for a few dollars. Seems that all the graphic "shitstuff" is not very much worth at all.

This fellow shows us cool an perfect coding - he shows us a
game development. This is the aspect of the posting! No [censored] graphics! But it seems, that this is very hard to understand for the majority.

wow, this looks like a bunch of hot brain work. and the video shows already a great gameplay. i like how the tanks move. specially the enemies. and i like the explosions weapons powerups and well, just everything.
considering the graphical aspects it already has a cool style. i guess this will just be a fantastic funny and addictive game

"This fellow shows us cool an perfect coding"
...agreed!

Still, commenting on the graphics (and yes, alpha_strike, I know they're WIP, I know this is all about the coding, but I still think I can mention this at this state): I think it gets a bit messy with all the effects. i couldn't really keep track of the explosions, the hits, the lasers... all got lost on me. don't overdo that part! (maybe if something's hit there should only be a small effect...?)

then again, maybe that's just me.

Awesome game, awesome AI from what I've seen so far, nice work!

Looking forward to more,
Micha

This is the context I see this demo in:

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Codings

alpha_strike is right - there is no point to mention the graphics, cause as the other works of jumpman show that he knows what he is doing. And he was talking about the coding and that it was the coding what he wants to show.

guys, thank you for the comments! They are very encouraging. Since I dont really have anyone to show my game to you guys are my only source of encouragement/critique!

@molotov
Yes! I will be adding a few more tank types/models to mix it up. The tank model you see in the first post are the intro tanks. Later Ill be making 4 legged tanks, speedy tanks, 4 barrel machine gun tanks, rocket/mortar tanks, lots of them!

@mpdeveloper_B
You are right about the grainy sand not fitting in with the animated explosions. I have a habit of mixing alot of different styles sometimes. I hope to get some sort of "visual playtesting" when the game is in a playable state for testers.

@Germanunkol
I totally agree with the amount of visual chaos going on when lots of tanks are shooting and exploding. It definitly is hard to keep track of what is going on, and I will definitly look into reducing the amount of effects happening/created. Though for me, it looks cool to see all that bright flashing, animation, sounds and explosions going on


The environment will be getting a huge overhaul in both design and textures. It's mentally hard for me to start working on visuals when I cant get the fundamentals working, so alot of that is put off.


The thing about the game so far at this point, is that we all see it now at a point where alot of different scripts come together, and its hard to seperate the scrips visually. At this point the behind the scenes looks really complicated, but its not at all. Its more like lots of small simple peices put together to form something that looks complicated. But, debugging and finding hidden errors never seen before?......now thats complicated

Don't worry, I posted here knowing fully well that everything will be criticised, including the graphics. I wouldnt get mad at anybody. And yes when I said "please excuse the placeholder art", I knew that wasnt an excuse for people not to mention the graphics. Yes, I put the post here to show how the AI moves and works, some small parts of the game itself (like powerup effects), and even some graphics such as the bullet explosion animations, but mainly about the AI.

But since this type of medium is so visual, its hard not to comment on the graphics, so they are welcomed .

Hi Jump! Please do not reduce the action. Complete it with more laser, explosions and maybe harder sound-fx.
It just looks very very cool. I watched the video over and over again. You could power it up with colored laser.
Red for the enemy, green for the player. I personally would implement air attacs, rocket launcher systems.
You could use "exgen" for cool animated sprites...
keep the good work on.

i second that. it will give more adrenaline if there is so much action

Sorry... I didn't mean for him to reduce the action but, i think the action is cool!

but when there's lots of tanks close to each other, I'd never know if I hit a tank or not...
Maybe it's the (very cool looking!) effect that occurs when you hit the ground... it's great, and very fitting, but playing together with all the other particle effects, i for one would loose track. Different color lasers would certainly work towards an easier-to-overview game as well...
maybe leave it the way it is, and just keep in mind, when adding more effects, that the user will still want to know who's lasers those on screen are, who's exploding ... etc

Micha