Aliens of Earth

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Aliens of Earth is a 3D third-person Action/Adventure game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with destructible environments and gameplay that is inspired by games such as Super Metroid and The Guardian Legend. You control a transforming mech with both flight and humanoid forms with the ability to transform whenever you want - though flight mode is only really usable in larger, open areas. What this means is that you will be running around in humanoid form when exploring smaller caves, corridors, rooms and other smaller environments. These areas will consist of slightly slower gameplay with an emphasis on exploration and puzzle solving, similar to a game like Super Metroid or Metroid Prime. Larger, more open areas will consist more of action and exploration and will be best experienced with the faster and more agile flight mode. But at any time, if you want to get a closer look at something, you'll be able to transform back to humanoid form and walk around.

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I've been working on the "Marble Caves," the first area of the game. I show some texturing experiments and a test flight video.

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I've been working on the "Marble Caves," the first area of the game. Note only the flight mode is shown, thus you see only wide open areas so far. While it still has a long way to go, I'd like to show some work in progress texturing experiments:

Texture Experiments for the first area, Texture Experiments for the first area,
Texture Experiments for the first area, Texture Experiments for the first area,
Texture Experiments for the first area,

Note that you see the ship flying around inside the caves, the mipmapping is working without holes or gaps.

I've also recorded a short video of a test flight through the caves. Note that enemies are still disabled, I'll be showing off combat soon. For some reason the recording software caused annoying pauses in the video, because those pauses aren't there normally. This was recorded from the simulator because I thought it'd be easier but I'll do a video off the real device soon.

Anyway it's recorded at iPad resolution, please ignore the pauses. Also note that camera collision is not currently implemented but it will be of course.


Please note that this is still all work in progress, expect big improvements as the project progresses. :D

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mikejkelley
mikejkelley - - 874 comments

Love the art design, reminds me of 8bit heroes.

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