For the past week I've been implementing enemies, health(so you can die) an slowmo effect and oh crystals :). I can now say that I am have the ability to produce some of the worst viceovers ever.

With all theese features I'm more or less feature complete on the game side. There is still a ton of stuff I would like to do, that I originally planned for, but dont have the time for. Like multiple weapons(pistols, lasso and shotguns among others), ragdolls and smarter enemies. There is also allot of the code that I would like to design different. Some in a totally different way, others merely a namechange.

So here I am, less than a month until deadline and I think I'm going to put together a small demo, and another youtube movie to prove to the 'guys with graphical talent' that this is a fun game(to make some graphics for) and not a waste of time, so hopefully I can spend some time to tweak the physics and add a in game meny and cartoon like - max payne inspired cut scenes(ie static images with sound). Until them enjoy these stress tests of my system - do you think these counts as explosions :)



All images are taken in slowdowned mode, hence the grayscale, as it's not humanly possible to throw that many dynamites in normal mode ;)

[Edited by - sirGustav on March 6, 2008 11:21:31 PM]

">Second video (with sounds) Enjoy!
Pleas don't laugh that much at my terrible voiceovers, if I win with those voiceovers the other the judges must be wrong :)
If anyone wants to make some nice graphics(or voiceovers) it's fine by me :) I'll probably make a help wanted post later and upload a alpha preview for download :)
I still miss some major features such as story elements, configurable keys, a meny, and a restart on death key(that's a high priority).

Pretty cool, how did you achieve the slow down effect?

Thanks.
The slowmo is simply achieved by multiplying the delta-t, for some objects, with some value between 0 and 1(currently it is 0.2 at it's lowest), and changing the grayness and sound frequency based on that value.

Update:
Dev img post with download can be found here. Please let me know that there are no bugs in there so I can continue add more features :)

[Edited by - sirGustav on March 13, 2008 12:15:56 AM]

I started the CowboyGame.exe in the release folder and it was missing some PhysX dlls, luckily I had them so I put them in and then restarted, i got the screen where I choose my graphics driver (on the Ogre screen). I tried both drivers but got the same error "Unable to initialize the PhysX SDK, 0-".

Please fix :D

edit: by driver i meant render system :whistle:

Great work Gustav!!

Did you read the readme?

Quote: As this is a preview release the download has been stripped to a minimum. This game requires PhysX 2.7.3 to be installed. You do not need the PhysX card to run the game, only the driver. http://www.ageia.com/drivers/drivers.html

accidentally that same readme also explains how to use the hardcoded controls :)

Besides you shouldnt need to copy the physx dlls, thats probably why you get a 0(no error) as the error message. If you installed the right version it should just work :)

Keep up the good work!

I guess it's pretty obious by now that I didnt complete the game :(

Since the last time I've added a menu and configurable keys. However I still miss story elements a few bugfixes and goodlooking media. (un)fortunately I will stick to my word and stop development after deadline. Just for fun, I'll see if I can create a installer that installs the game and source (so you can mock me) :)