Blackreef Pirates!

This looks incredible. You've got some quality work and I agree with many others, I can't wait to see what the next 27 weeks will bring.

 

A little teaser for the next alpha

 

Time for a new public playable alpha! There are lots of improvements from the last alpha and many little things under the hood that will speed up the development process in the future.

I also started to work on the game theme and background story...I can't show anything to you at the moment but trust me: is going to be awesome

Changes from last week

• Sword trail for melee attacks
• Improved character shader (now with more specular goodness)
• Reworked vignetting and pause fx

Webplayer

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Here's a little preview of one of the first characters...yes Adam is going to retire soon

 

Love the face and general look, apart from the enormous hands.

 

As a representative of both beards and abnormally large hands, I approve.

 

In the latest blog post I talk about how to create "modular character" with unity3d.

Also, here's the first characters of my game and watch some experiments with facial animation.

Check it out at: Week 29 - Modular character creation - part I

 

I'm really interested in the modular character parts.

If you promise tutorials/assets I'll make free models for you XD (even textures if I must...) Link1 Link2(semi nws)

 

Thanks for your comments! Next time I'll try to scale down the hands, yes...they are a bit too big

 

Here's a two-week update! The new characters are almost ready and it's time for Adam to retire. Here's the video with all the changes:

• New models: chest, hands, belt, legs, boots and a beard!
• Swords!
• Attachment "bone" for swords and draw animation
• Running with sword animation
• Custom shader for weapons (with fake specular)

 

Great update! I'm starting to get a nice piratey vibe from it.

 

It's September! It's time to announce the game theme: PIRATES. Who doesn't love pirates?

Together with the game theme I also announce the start of a collaboration with Marco Lisci, a very talented environment artist and level designer. Marco is already hard working on the first level of the game, a little pirate town and a the nearby port.

I'm very excited to show you his first work, everything is just a placeholder to test the level size and spaces...and I love it!

Here's a video with a fly-through of the first level prototype, isn't great?

 

Looks pretty awesome for a prototype! Nice work there.

 

Fantastic stuff! Really really great work. Your game keeps getting more and more intriguing.
And as always: seeing your stuff makes me really want to improve mine. What am I going to do once you're finished?

 

Really diggin that pirate island prototype! Looks amazing even without textures.

 

Any chance of you ever sharing your sword trails solution?

 

Been following this and it's looking great! Keep up the good stuff =)

 

The code is too coupled with the rest of the code but I started from this and then added some code to start and stop only when attacking:
http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=MeleeWeaponTrail

Hope this helps

 

Im really stoked to see more from you, I love all the work so far, keep it up!

 

This really is fantastic work. I'm very impressed and i always loved RPG's so keep up the amazing work!

 

Placeholders? Just slap some textures on them and it will look striking already. The cubist geometry is very appealing.

 

In this first Art Assets overview we are showing you some assets Marco created in the last week. Textures and models are constantly WIP but they already show what artistic choices we made.

All objects in the scene share the same texture atlas (a big 2048x2048 texture on iPad and 4096x4096 on desktop), have a very low polycount and are organized in a way to be reusable and as foundation of larger and more complex props.

If you like to have more information about UV management, texturing, modeling or other tips please leave a comment and follow our devblog!

 

it all looks very nice! i hope to see more in the nearby future.
good luck,

lars

 

Just wanted to say this looks very cool and best of luck.

 

hi cominu,
although it is not very kind to say: i am a pretty bored of seeing all these low poly assets. they really look nice. no doubt, but especially the boats could need some more polies! just think about the upcoming LOD feature of 3.5!
it might be a good idea to think bigger as far as poly budget is concernded. everything develops and grows. so does polycount!
http://unity3d.com/webplayer/hwstats/pages/web-2011Q3-gfxperf.html

just a quick thought.

lars

 

Webplayer stats aren't very relevant to an iPad game

 

just coming to ipad? sorry…

 

Everytime there's an update for this project, it just looks more amazing. Really looking forward to seeing the end result. I think the professionalism in the approach here is something to learn from.

 

Hi everybody! Here's a quick news from the captain: our little pirate game is now also on IndieDB!



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...about the lack of gameplay updates...well, a new playable alpha is coming, stay tuned

 

Week 34 - Art assets overview #2 + guns

Full post: http://www.subvertgames.com/blog/35

 

looks really good !

 

Fantastic assets.

 

Week 35 of 52..The end of the project is only 17 weeks away and I'm starting to feel the pressure. So, no more prototypes from now on!

Here's the combat arena that will be used to test all the combat features. It's still a work in progress but the next week will be ready, together with a new playable alpha

Full blog post here: Week 35 - Combat arena

 

This week we learned the hard way to not underestimate the time all the little things takes when making a level (with some gameplay). We did and re-did everything almost twice (or more) and had a lot of fights with unity. The good news it that eventually we won the fight...the bad is that we lost too many days and we cannot release the Alpha 6.

But...here's some good news for you: we have found a name for our little game! Yes!



Here's some fresh screens from the training arena (aka Alpha 6)









I also started working on this gameplay features (more on these later):

• Dialogues
• Cutscenes
• Mission objectives UI
• Checkpoints (a-la GTA)
• Training dummy and shooting target
• Friendly NPC
• Skydome

Hope you like it

 

yes we like it

 

That's a quote for gold right there...

 

Huge update this week! I'm very proud of this update because it's a big leap forward in transitioning from a tech demo to a real game.

The changes are too many but the biggest are:

• improvements in character animations
• dialogues with NPC
• level scripting and cutscenes
• checkpoints
• mission objectives UI
• weapon grab

Warning: this demo is incomplete. I mean, it's a good testbed for many features that will be included in the final game but contains a lot of placeholder animations (the "grab weapon from table" is clearly one of them) and gameplay glitches. However I plan to continue working on it and release updates when ready, without waiting another one full month for another release.

As always, you can play it directly in your browser or if you prefer there's a downloadable version too:

Play in your browser

Download windows

Download mac

Have fun

 

Wonderful, loved the art, although the ropes didn't really translate as walls. Maybe some short stone walls or thin wood fencing?
anywho, Im a fan.

 

Cool! Keep working on it

 

I finally took possession of a Unity iOS Pro license! So, how is the game running in the real iPad hardware?

I must admit...the iPad 2 version of the game runs incredibly great

Not only the game is running correctly and without graphical glitches but is also rock solid at 60 FPS with 2X antialias!

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So, I spent this week configuring everything to work on this little "magical" device and working on an custom UI more suited for a touch screen.

Read more on subvertgames.com blog​

 

Glad everything is coming along as you wanted!

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, here's the 40th week update! Today I'm going to talk about Gamma correction, the new website and kongregate.

Whaat? Where is the game?!

Don't worry, the game is progressing well, Marco is creating a whole new section of the city and I'm working on some new gameplay feature related to Indoor scenes. Also, the story start to have some interesting twists, but I still can't talk about the details ;-)

Gamma correction

In a perfect world every monitor have always the right contrast and colors. In a perfect world gamma correction makes no sense. But we live in a world where every monitor is slightly or completely different from the "standard" because of user settings or cheap hardware.

Read more...​

 

The Skyrim armageddon is near! Here's the latest update about Blackreef Pirates!

Full post: Week 41 - Art Assets overview #3 + camera improvements

 

Weekly update 42!

Yes, we got Skyrimtitis.Here's our personal tribute to the Skyrim world.

Full blog post:
Skyrim...pirates and minimap update

Enjoy

 

Wanst the game going to be a iPad tittle?
Very nice game btw.

 

It's definitely going to be an iPad title, but also for PC and Mac

 

I've definitely got a bad case of skyrimitis too! It's spread!

 

Just great !
The floor is so bright or white ? is it normal, all our visual attention is attracted byt this brightfull floor, why not making it less bright and more discret ?

 

Ciao se vuoi posso aiutarti col progetto se sei interesato

 

Week 43 - Indoor scenes and blob shadows

This week I developed a way to create blob shadows without using projector (too heavy for iPad) and the video showcase the first indoor scene with a "point and click" style camera.

Enjoy

Full post: http://www.subvertgames.com/blog/43