Poppin - our first game in the making

Hi everyone,

my name is Evi, we're at Cubix Studio are trying to make a simple short web game using Unity Engine.
(we're mostly an artist, with no programmer, so we aim at making simple games with simple mechanic)

our first game is just a clone of a mini-game "Pyoro" from Wario Ware (GBA),
hopefully it's not that hard to do, since this is our first try.
but we will recreate all the asset with our own stuff
the main character is going to be a female, her name is Pyurin

Here are some of the pre-production of the character,
we really having so much fun in the making of this project whenever we're not doing contract work :





i put the rest of the images on our blog if you interested to see it
(we scrape some of our earlier concepts though) :

http://cubixstudio.blogspot.com/

thanks for reading wish us luck,
i'll keep updating and asking questions in this forum

 

Hi Evi,

welcome to the forums!!! That looks really nice - I like that style! It's gonna be exciting to see how this turns into a game...

So - good luck, and looking forward to the questions ;-)

Sunny regards,
Jashan

 

The art is awesome, but you may want to consider changing the name. "Purin" is what they call the Pokemon Jigglypuff in Japan, and you're already using a modified name of another Nintendo product.

 

Oh - that's a good point. I just recently read about Nintendo making someone take their Maryo Kart and other Nintendo clones off the web (I think those were for the palm or something), so it's sure a good idea to use a unique name... well, maybe that's a different story because those really were 100% clones of Nintendo games with only slightly modified Nintendo names, but I guess it's just a good idea to be a little careful with those things...

Say "trACEon" ;-)

Jashan

 

To be honest about the design, I really preferred the traditional animation style character drawings to the japanese ones. Still looks cool, though.

 

@holtsch:
thanks a lot for the warm welcome :wink:
... yeah i bet we gonna ask a lot in the forum once we
start doing the programming

@Jessy:
thanks for the suggestion, you're totally right,
kinda dangerous to use another nintendo stuff
for now i'll change the title to "Poppin".
hopefully there's no pokemon with that name :mrgreen:

@aaronsullivan:
i was wondering about that too when we design the character,
whether we should design using anime/japanese influence style or using an american cartoon style.
Today we totally rework the character, and came up with new character concept.

thank's a lot for all the feedback,
here is the image for the day (new character concept, rough BG color and some creatures design):
i'll just group everything in one image.



Tomorrow, expect to see 3D stuff, i guess we gonna move to the next step (creating 3D stuff).

Thanks you

 

duh, i forgot to post the new title (thanks to jessy for telling me about the pokemon name):

 

I agree with Aaron, the new character is really well done and now stands out as something individual, whereas the first designs are just more anime influenced things in a world awash with anime influenced things. I really love the bug concepts too. Nice work, goodluck with it.
Boxy

 

Definitely awesome.

...and I THINK Poppin is unique enough from "Poppins" that you may be able to stay out of trouble...Disney is notoriously litigious, though. :wink:

 

Not much update for today :cry:
since we have to do some other contract work, but we manage to finish the standard bug model, click to go to our blog for bigger image.



thanks for looking

 

Evi -- welcome to the Unity community!

I loved your content packs for TGE. If you ever decide to release content packs for Unity (or update the Male Female content packs for Unity... I had trouble importing the FBX files with animations) I'll be first in line with my credit card.

The artwork for this project looks great (as usual). Keep up the good work!

 

The bug looks great I really love your concept style.
Cheers
Boxy

 

hey... thanks a lot for the comments everyone
got some little updates for today, another model of the creatures:

Special Bug:


Bonus Bug:

 

Finishing the UV on those 3 creatures:



quite a simple creature, make it easier to unwrap

 

We create a model sheet to help us in doing the 3d model of Poppin, we decide to make her a little bit younger based on earlier concept. With this model sheet building 3D model of her should be a lot easier.
Not sure if you're notice it, she's carrying a yoyo for her weapon



also we manage to finish the floor model / 3D block for Poppin to stand on,
this might be the simplest asset from this game, it's only a cube with painted texture

 

I'm really enjoying your progress updates. Keep it up!

 

thanks a lot defmech

here's more update from us:
today we got some time to do a mockup screen of how the games going to look like,
also the background is probably around 75% finished, quite happy with the result.



And, finally the the first creature's texture is done, this is probably the complex model among the other 2 creatures (bonus bug special bug). hopefully it looks ok



stay tuned for more updates 8)

 

The background is beautiful. Are you going to add clouds?

 

thanks a lot Tim
yeah adding clouds moving in the background would be awesome, i'll add that in our to do list,
and we'll see if we can implemented it later in the game.

btw, sorry no updates for today, we're quite busy with another project

 

Looking great! Welcome to the community!

 

Thanks a lot Casemon
here some more updates, we got 2 updates for today yayyy :mrgreen:
first is the 2nd creature, actually this is pretty easy to do, we just don't have the time to finish it until today:



second one is Poppin's weapon, a super duper magical yoyo :



a gif animation of it, just for fun:



more updates tomorrow (hopefully)

 

Ok, here is the last creature that will become Poppin's enemy, but at the same time it will also give her some kind of special power

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1892/031408bugspecialtbwq5.jpg

 

also a little bit of change on the title, we want to make it cuter

 

great work - love the style ; )

 

thanks you drJones,
i can't wait to put all this creatures together on Unity engine hehehehe...

btw, for some reason the image thumbnail doesn't show up, so here it is again:

 

Here's some updates from us in the weekend
Finally the background is done, also we got some time to work on Poppin's model,
right now she doesn't have the texture yet, only flat color for now, we plan to finish it next week





also thanks to everyone who letting us know about the grammar mistakes on the title, we fix it too

 

It just gets better and better. Keep up the good work!

 

thanks a lot Moldorma

sorry for the lack of update in the past 2 weeks, we've been very busy with another project,
and whenever we have spare time we spent it on learning Unity engine tutorial.
(which... for a bunch of artists like us, is quite a challenging task,
good thing that one of our member knows javascript a little bit )

This updates probably going to be the last art updates from us, since all of
the art assets are pretty much done.

We also get a help from a fantastic composer, Nino Rajacic,
who will help us for doing the background music and all the special fx sound

please visit his site to check out more of his awesome works:

http://www.ninorajacic.co.nr/

ok, now without further ado, here is Poppin :



also one more background art, a night time in the village :



and also our first prototype..
you will need Unity Web Player to be able to see it (this is basically "Not Playable" yet, so don't expect too much when you see it ),
we just want to show you how far we're right now with the game prototype itself:
(btw this doesn't work on some PC, the creature seems melting, no background etc...., but works ok in Mac, we're not sure why ????)

click on the image to run the first prototype:



please stay tuned for more updates, we're having fun making this project hehehehe.....

 

This doesn't work for me (I'm on Windows right now). It just crashes and looks weird. Here's a screen of it.

edit: hmm, I'm starting to think my unity plugin might have stopped working today. :/

 

Dock, thanks a lot for testing it (i hope it won't crash your PC),
yeah looks like it doesn't work on most PC,
i notice that:

- on ATI card it works ok (but the background dissapear)
- on Nvidia Card (creature seems melting/tearing the screen, and no background)
- on Mac (works ok, that the screenshot that i capture from mac)

i'll do a screen comparison in a minute.....

 

ok here it is:

On Mac it looks like this (Firefox Safari):



On PC (Nvidia Card, not sure what type probably 8600 / 8800 series):




i will ask around in Support Forum tomorrow,
right now very tired already

 

Yikes! Please do this:

1) Go to Start->Run and enter "dxdiag" without the quotes
2) Click Save All Information and save the file it generates
3) Report a new bug, and include:
---The problematic web player
---The dxdiag file
---The OS version you're using (like WinXP SP2)
4) Upgrade to the latest drivers from nVidia.com and see if the problem still occurs

 

Thanks Sam,
i just ask my friend who use different Card (ATI NVIDIA) to give me their dxdiag and i send it using Help->Report a Problem,

i hope that's the correct way to report bug.
here is what i send:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. 1) Provide a summary of the issue:
3. - Object/mesh seem to tear the screen / leave traces when they moves on screen
4. - Background image dissapear
5. - Everything works fine on Mac, Firefox/Safari (Problem only happens on PC Machine, ATI  NVIDIA card with latest driver)
6.  
7. 2) Steps to Reproduce: Detail the steps taken to produce the bug.
8. Play this on a PC machine:
9. [url]http://www.cubixstudio.com/unity/PoppinProto01.html[/url]

also more screenshots:

PC with NVIDIA card (latest nvidia driver, Win XP-64bit):


PC with ATI card (latest ati driver, Win XP SP2):


On ATI, the trace/tearing/melting problem dissapear, it's just no background displayed

thanks

 

Sam Aras,
thanks a lot for your help, that solves ALL of my problem :
- the "Normalize Camera" to (0,0,1,1) fix the problem with disappearing background.
- Updating Unity from 2.01 to 2.02 fix the problem with trailing/melting issue on Windows Web Player.
thank you so much....

...now for the Poppin updates itself, this is how far we are right now,
this time it's playable, with a simple score display using DebugConsole (thanks to jeremyace for his handy script, it's very useful), btw i can get 20610 for my highest score

here is the Poppin Prototype 02 link:

http://www.cubixstudio.com/unity/PoppinProto02.html



still have many things to do, our future TO DO LIST:
- Adding Bug Bonus Bug Special to restore Destroyed Block
- Adding Animation for Poppin + All Bug
- Change the Yoyo Design (right now it looks too simple when the yoyo rotates)
- Adding Day/Night cycle for the background
- Adding Particle Effect
- Adding Music Sound FX
- Adding Menu/Welcome Screen
- Adding Game Over Screen
- Adding / Saving HighScore

i guess we will take it slow from now, since mostly it's gonna be scripting work (except Animation some graphical change ).

also we are open for contract work if you / your company need help with any art assets (from 2D concept to 3d).
here is our short info ( http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=10691 )