Games [WIP] Sands of Space turn based RPG

Sands of Space

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The Story:
The space nighthawk gets suspiciously shady offer. During the mission spaceship crashed and the whole crew has died. He is the only one who survived and left alone without any back up on the planet called Trappist-1 h which has been in quarantine for dozens of years. The previously prosperous cyber-metropolis of one of the planetary systems - decays after a biological plague. And it’s not the most pleasant place that turns into the hell, when he realizes that it's impossible to run away from this trap. Some people say that everyone has a small chance to leave Trappist-1 h and the black archaeologist is trying to do his best to find the ship and get off this planet.

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Spoiler: Videos

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Spoiler: Screenshots

Inspired by:
Films: Alien, Aliens (but not AvP), The Thing, Leviathan, X-Files, Firefly, Serenity
Games: Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Dead Space, Shadowrun, Stasis

Technology:
Unity 5, Autodesk Maya 2016, Substance Painter 2, Substance Designer 6, Adobe Photoshop CC 2017, Marmoset Toolbag 3, ZBrsuh 4R7

 

Looks pretty good. I prefer turn based games myself, but they generally require more decisions for strategy than real time. Some of the ones I've thought about are: close range weapons can only be used when an enemy is near, weaker players in some areas, like personal defense, need some protection from other members, different equipment works better in different circumstances. Have you thought about that at all? Are you going to have more than one party member?

 

Thank you, fire7side!

>> Looks pretty good.


>> I prefer turn based games myself, but they generally require more decisions for strategy than real time
Me too. And you are right, cause there a lot of combination of equipment, characteristics and so on.

>> close range weapons can only be used when an enemy is near
Yes, all weapons will get a range. But you can shoot in long distance with a chance -99% Maybe with high Fortune (more than 10) you get hit there. But not melee of course.

>> weaker players in some areas, like personal defense, need some protection from other members
Yes. Some quests to defense somebody (NPC).

>> different equipment works better in different circumstances
Yes. Also Im planing to implement body modification - implants, to improve your characteristics. Change your eye to electronic cyber eye to get more area to view in dark. Riddick will like it. ;D

>> Have you thought about that at all?
Not all the things, but I will do it in several parts. Right now Im working on Inventory system. After I'm planing to implement bombs, grenades etc. For example, barrels should be with aoe if you hit them.

Yes, I know - there a lot of work. But, it's really interesting work. Balance, stories, quests... Actually if you ever played Fallout 1 or 2, or maybe Underrail - it will in same game setting.

 

I'm just starting Shadowrun Dragonfall: director's cut. Very cool game.

 

Great choice! You should also try Underrail

 

There is something about the environment masking - where it turns see through where the character is standing, that doesn't look quite right. Maybe it is how it pops in relatively quickly instead of fading in/out. I don't quite know.
At first - in the first video I thought it was a render glitch - but then realized it is to keep the player character visible completely.

I wonder if this is needed. I never saw a moment where the player character was ever completely hidden behind environment objects. Even if the character is not completely hidden the transparency effect kicks in - and I don't really think it is needed unless there are a lot of times the player character is completely hidden by foreground environment elements.
Other games Diablo 3 and Xcom's usually don't have a solution for this unless the character goes behind an object that completely blocks/hides the player character. If the player is not complete hidden - this effect does not kick in - in other games. Do you think this is needed - even if the character is not 100% completely hidden behind foreground elements?

 

Hi!
Are you talking about the walls or environment, such as shelfs etc.?

 

What you have so far looks good! Question though, the reality is that there are many similar games out there. Have you thought of a feature in mechanics, story (anything) that would set this somehow apart from the rest? Now, I don't mean to sound condescending in any way with that question. Honest curiosity ^_^

 

Hi! Thank for you response!

Yes, I have specific features that will looks differently than other games. Features of game mechanics and rich story of course. I will post more information here later.

 

Here some update!

1. Path highlighting

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2. New enemy statistics

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More info: http://www.indiedb.com/games/sands-of-space-turn-based-rpg/news/good-news-everyone-small-update-1

 

Seemed like everything in between the character and camera was turning transparent even if the character was not fully hidden. In other games this type of masking, or outlining doesn't happen unless the character is 100% occluded behind another object.

 

Hi there!
Development still in progress and I want to share what I have done for this month

1. Speech bubbles added! NPC shows random phrases now!
2. Added path highlighting and path cost. I mean it's in combat mode of course.
3. Dialogs! We have a dialogs! But UI will be modified in a future, but functionality now working properly.
4. Added action pie menu! Do you likes pies?
5. Combat mode improvement - now you can hit the enemy throught a window, glass etc. Yeah!
6. Barrels now are explosive and it's your friend in combat. Just hit them and it will show the holy fire!
7. Fixed bugs. You really don't want to know what it was.

Just check it out on this video:

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Thank you!

 

Hi!

Right now working on new monster - Derelict. Derelict it's muted human living in dark places such as caves and urban sewage. Also inventory and other features still in progress.







And here the action:

 

Greetings all!

Long story short I have added a outliner for objects that player can interact with, new monster Derelict and Psy Derelict with invisible feature, new HUD, ammo reloading, new UI for dialogs and notifications for quests.

And here the timeline
00:00 - 02:18 fight with Derelicts and Psy Derelict
02:18 - 02:54 new UI for Inventory
02:54 - 03:28 big badaboom

The outliner works like in Underrail. You can press Tab and it will highlight the objects near the player to reduce pixel hunting. Also the color of outliner is depending on what object it is. For example
1. None NPC (lockers, stuff on floor etc.) — blue outline
2. NPC not in battle mode with player — green outline
3. NPC in battle mode with player — red outline

As you can see the new enemy Derelict is in a game, two version of him actually. Psy Derelict and Derelict. The Psy Derelict is invisible and he is the leader of group. Thats mean other Derelicts near the Psy Derelict attack with more damage. And if Psy Derelict is dead they become weaker.

Thank you!

 

This looks really cool. Gives me a good Fallout 1/2 vibe.

 

Thanks! Sorry for the late reply. I'm here not often

Still in in progress. Here the new location










And some new props:









Also I reworked the UI. And here the one of the player picture with draft of base abilities:

 

What a coincidence! I was thinking about this game yesterday and wondered what was going on with it. Glad to see the project is still up and running, new stuff looks promising!