Well after a long time of developing Hunt For Food I finally have something you guys can play!
Along with the game I have made an instruction video that will guide you through potential encounters and show you the basics. I will also attach some written instructions to this blog. The game is rather big right now so it will take up to 4+ minutes before it is loaded.
So go Subscribe to it on the Steam Workshop and then open Leadwerks Game Player to check it out!
Any feedback would be
I have been working on a simple laser deflection game that dynamically creates geometry-based beams that automatically calculate deflection, bounce angles, and allow the player to rotate deflectors to guide the beam to the goal. As I familiarize myself with the Leadwerks API, I thought I might share my experiences and code examples here if anyone is interested.
Please let me know if this sounds interesting and I will continue.
Here's an example of something called "derivative works" which is something the Leadwerks Workshop on Steam allows us to do.
Shadmar uploaded a model from Leadwerks 2 and added some special effects to it in the Workshop here:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=312811332
I subscribed to the item, and used the model and sound to make my own Workshop item here:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=312846032
When you load my item up in the editor
Directional lights now allocate shadowmap stages in a different pattern. At medium and high lighting quality, a 4096x4096 texture will be used. I have no evidence for this, but I suspect this will be more reliable than creating a 8192x2048 texture. The directional light shader has been modified to read shadowmaps in this new pattern.
The Texture::RG format has been added to the supported texture formats. This uses 2 bytes to store red and green channels.
Terrains use a large amount o
A new update is available with the following changes:
Player collision against terrains is now working really nicely. In general, the player controller has become very solid and accurate. It's also quite a bit faster than before.
An experimental feature lets you make CSG brushes the child of another object and check a "shape hint" option in the physics properties. This will use any attached CSG brushes to build a new compound convex hull for that model. This is best used to make pref
Random Bablings About the Project I'm Working On
The Journey Here
Ever since I bought Leadwerks I have been making the same game. It's games objective has morphed many times since. It started out as a stand clone of a survival mode mod for Left 4 Dead 2. The players would be stuck in a secluded area with no way to escape. Zombies would come in waves and the player would be able to fortify their location. As time went on these locations became bigger and bigger. I started to have levels w
I update to latest version of Newton and did a lot of work on character physics.
All collisions below the step height will now be ignored, regardless of incline.
Character collision in general is much more stable and accurate.
Terrain collisions now work properly.
Character collisions using an adaptive method that will be much faster overall.
Opt into the beta branch on Steam to get the update. If you're using Lua, be sure to update your project to get the latest EXEs.
Video Link -
Hi Leadwerks Community!
I finally figured out how to make a blog so this will be my first blog regarding my almost completed project The Hunt for Food. Take a look at the video and give me some suggestions if you have any. This game will be added to the Leadwerks Workshop on Steam soon.
Some info about the Game in general -
This is a primitive survival game where you have to use your environment to your advantage. There are no guns. There is no giant backpack
Following completion of their successful Kickstarter campaign to bring Leadwerks’ game development software to Linux, Leadwerks has announced the release of Leadwerks Game Engine for Linux on the Steam distribution platform. This provides Linux users with a powerful tool to easily create their own 3D games.
Over the last year, Leadwerks has focused on desktop Linux as a platform for creating and playing games. For many users, Leadwerks provides the last missing application they need to mov
So, I'm creating a blog to show how I'm approaching certain things (maybe this will be helpful to some people?).
Stealth:
This is a set of features that I wanted to go all out on, so that's what I'm doing right now.
Shadows: Someone asked about how to implement shadows, and Josh gave a simple answer (kind of made me feel dumb lol). Anyway, the implementation for my game works for directional lights (the sun) right now, but it should be easy to extend to other lights if I cho
A new update is now available on the default (stable) branch. For a list of improvements and fixes, see my blog and the bug reports forum:
http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/blog/1-joshs-blog/
http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/forum/80-bug-reports/
If you purchased the sci-fi DLC, the example maps will now be automatically copied into your "MyGame" project, making it easier to find them.
If you would like to trade your standalone registration key in for a Steam key, so you can get ac
Last week we’ve been in cologne (Germany) at the gamescom, a trade fair for video games. I’ve talked to a few publishers gathering information on strategies to distribute a game on the world-marked, payment system providers for game and in-game purchases and last but not least, advertisers. They gave us quite a bit of information brochures, haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. After all, the most important aspect was getting some contacts into the game industry, which we seem to have now
In the midst of my late night insomnia set on by inspiration and excitement, I read the talk “AI is possible .. but AI won't happen: The future of Artificial Intelligence” by Mark Humphrys.
http://computing.dcu.ie/~humphrys/newsci.html
This is a great read for someone interested in the current state of AI. It’s far less impressive than someone might hope, but far more realistic. In summary, when computers were invented people generally believed we had the tools to create brilliant artifi
A new map called "09-Change Map.map" has been added to the example game. This demonstrates how to use the new TriggerChangeMap.lua script to make your player progress from one level to the next.
In order to use this script, you must update your project with the new executables. Select the File > Project Manager menu to open the Project Manager, then press the "Update" button to update your project.
A new chunk of code has been added to App.lua to handle map changes. This code will
A new update is available on the beta branch on Steam.
Pistol script bug fixed
A recent change in the way particle emitters are updated was causing an error where one-shot emitters would automatically release themselves while the engine was iterating through the list of emitters, causing a crash. This has been fixed.
You must update your project to get the new binary. Open the Project Manager and press the Update button to update.
Game Player Enhancements
The Leadwerks Game Playe
At this point I would like to share some plans with you on continued development over the next several months. I generally avoid detailed roadmaps for two reasons:
It's more fun to announce something with a short notice than to say "we're going to do X, Y, and Z, by these dates...". If people know too far in advanced they sort of take it for granted, and it doesn't have as big an impact.
Plans change. When they do, people often consider cancelled plans to be "promised features". I like
It’s been another week! Time is elapsing so fast. We have made a-lot of bug fixes this week and the game is running much more stable now. The Noesis wrapper has been updated to support the new features of version 1.2. It can be downloaded on our git repository. As part of that, the UI of Remaining Days has been updated to support version 1.2. While talking about user interfaces, we have started implementing the in-game hud this week and it’s doing just fine! The only thing missing is the weapo
If you don't know that the blog title exists out of game names, you are probably a little confused . My upcoming job interviews are almost 2 weeks away, which gives me plenty of space to do some development stuff on the side from my main project. Besides my main project I have been working on the tutorial project Saturn as well as reviving the the Tunnels demo from Leadwerks 2.
Project Saturn
I didn't think I would have so much fun making project Saturn. It proves that making gameplay can b
A demo version of Leadwerks Game Engine has been released on Steam. If you've got a Steam account, you can now try the easiest way to make your own 3D games, free for fourteen days. Try out the sample maps that teach gameplay concepts, import some of your own artwork, or just play around with the editor and learning materials.
The full version of Leadwerks enables access to the Leadwerks Workshop, where you can download more than 70 items, including models, sounds, texture packs, and
We’ve been making rather slow progress this week, networked props are now functional and there have been a few enhancements to the character controller. Shadmar’s day and night cycle (see
) is now fully integrated into Remaining Days. Leadwerks Software has featured us in their newsletter this week!
Introducing the penultimate character, Carl:
To view the full announcement and technical progress updates visit our official blog post @ http://www.remainingdays.net/2014/08/g
I've been doing some work with animated models lately, and encountered some of the difficulties people have mentioned with model animations. It's not really hard to do, but there are things we can do to make the process faster when dealing with lots of animations. This video explains some of the changes I made to make it easier to get animated models into Leadwerks.
These include:
Animation name in extraction dialog.
Animation tab with all sequences displayed at once.
Import animat
In collaboration with Arteria3D, we are pleased to announce the release of the SciFi Interior Construction Kit for Leadwerks Game Engine on Steam. This DLC provides all the props and textures you need to create your own high-tech sci-fi game environments. All content is ready to use with Leadwerks Game Engine, with no tweaking or adjusting required. Objects are designed to be easily aligned so you can build your scene quickly and revise it as often as you like. The included objects can be reuse
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