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Rocket Report #3

Welcome to the third Rocket Report folks.  I think that I’ll keep doing these on Mondays – I work over the weekend, so Friday is weird for me.

What’s new in the world of Infested Planet these days?  This week was very productive for me.

Fun Stuff

I added two new music tracks.  Mark Wiebe (of Guitaro fame) composed them for me a long while ago, but the game was using way too much memory for music.  So, last week I rewrote the music code to stream and added 2 new awesome songs.

Another thing that I was playing around with is a new shading model.  The map is darker near the walls now and the world looks more 3D.  Also, I added more blobby purple goo hanging from the walls.  Makes the map look more detailed.

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Another graphical tweak I added is the ability to mask out portions of the map.  Now I can make it look like the game levels have entrances and exits.  It always bugged me that you were fighting in a place with no exits – how’d you get there anyway?

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“The Bulwark” got additional mission scripting.  I’m still not done with it, but the player gets hints about using flamethrowers.  Long-term plans are to have a helidrop of flamethrower crates, but they just appear now.

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Finally (and I can’t quite show this via screenshots), I added screenshake.  You won’t believe how great it is.  Now when you toss a grenade the entire screen shudders.  It makes me all tingly thinking about it. =P

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Minor Stuff

A lot of times when I’m tired of working on the big features, I’ll start fixing small things that bug me.  Here’s a list of some of these:

  • You can’t build things inside each other now
  • Updated the research tutorial to use the new tech stations
  • Marines can only tow 1 thing at a time now
  • Smoooooooth camera zooming
  • Many bugfixes

That’s it for this week.  Come here next Monday to hear more about how the game is improving.

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2 Responses to “Rocket Report #3”

  1. Fib Says:
    January 30th, 2013 at 6:42 am

    So are you actually uploading new builds with these changes? Or are you just updating us on what is going to be in the next build?

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