Jetpack Something?

Hi all. In the past I've been a bit rubbish with my marketing and not shown any screen shots or gave away any details until my game was ready on the app store so I thought I'd share some details now of my upcoming game Jetpack Something? Which is a working title.

As I'm a programmer with next to no art or sound skills what so ever I will be relying heavily on the Asset store and I'll update this original post with all the details of my asset store purchases once I've found a home for them in the game.

As I said I have no art skills so instead of some nice concept art for you to look at I thought I'd share a photo instead. Meet Poppy.


The game itself has been designed with mobiles in mind and is a one touch game which involves controlling a character with a jetpack - kind of an endless flyer as opposed to an endless runner.

Asset Store purchases used:
Cartoon Town and Farm - Michael O.
Low Poly Rockets - Survivor Alex
Cartoon Pro Skin - (Cant see on asset store at the moment)
Lumberjack - Export to Reality
Animal Friends - Dogzer
Fracturing and Destruction - Ultimate Game Tools
Mad Mesh Combiner

And here is a screen shot:


Here's the latest video:

 

I would buy this game because of Poppy.

The art looks pretty good, and it sounds like it would be a awesome Mobile game.
Good luck too you!

 

That screenshot looks cool. I like the graphics & the GUI

 

Thanks for the feedback guys.
I've updated the original screenshot in the first post as the other was a little small.

I've also finally integrated some new characters.


Again thanks to Asset Store for these.
Originally the man (Lumberjack) came with separate clothes but thats not needed for this so I need to work on the mans texture - some kind of super hero lycra suit perhaps but I'm happy with the animals.

Don't worry about the cats tail, he doesn't actually fly in that pose

 

And just to iterate how important the Asset Store has been to this project, here's a couple of Work In Progress screens from earlier versions.

 

Added a gameplay video.
Still need to work on character stabilisation so he doesn't spin so uncontrollably and need a bit more variety in the levels too.

Oh yeah, I need some background music too

 

Added some farm tiles to try and get a bit of variation going but they still need a bit of work.



Had a bit of a performance issue with draw calls shooting up from 50 to 200 which brought my iPad 3 down from 55+ fps to 30fps so I bought Mad Mesh Combiner and combined the crops into 2 meshes per tile instead of 30. Draw calls are back to about 50 and frame rate is back to 55+fps

Here's a screen of the Farm area.

 

The farm parts are looking really good. I like the character's design too!

 

Looks hella fun.
And isn't then uncontrollable spinning part of the fun?

 

Looks fantastic!

 

Looks great! Keep it up.
I really want to try it

 

Hey all, I'd just like to give a quick plug here and say that Jetpack Something was released today on iOS.
Its Free so please check it out.
Objective: Get as far as you can using your Jetpack.
Features:
Skilled one touch gameplay.
Rag doll physics.
Multiple Characters to unlock.
Multiple Jetpack upgrades to unlock.
http://bit.ly/1rw61U7

 

I really like the look of these. Very clean and minimalist. I think I must represent the 1% who like this kind of minimalistic look.

 

Yeah I think minimalistic looks great too if you can get it right.
I don't quite think I had it though and my 3d modelling skills are not good enough.
I did play around with pro builder for a while and got some decent(ish) results but it wasn't coming along quick enough.