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BFA
September 30, 2004:
Ok, here's the first official release: Pre-Alpha 1 [ed. Temporarily took the release offline]. Now with amazing explosions!
The contols still need a bunch of work, but here's the basics:
Camera Movement:That's about it I guess. In the main menu you can choose the number of players, types of players (computer, human) and their names. A game requires at least one human player. Also the computer "AI" (if it can be called that yet) is currently: turn towards a human player, shoot the current weapon without adjusting the power. So no complaints about how bad it is -- you've been warned!
arrow keys move the camera around
shift+arrow up/down zoom in/out
Tank Movement:
i,k,j,l move the tank forwards, backwards, rotate left, rotate right
shift+i/k change the turret angle up/down
shift+j/l change the firing power less/more
Console:
~ brings up/removes the console
type "help" into the console to see the available commands (there's nothing too interesting left in the release version)
Pause Menu:
ESC brings up the pause menu
Up next on my "to do" list is improving the camera system and probably adding at least one new weapon... until then, enjoy!
September 29, 2004:
Whee! After years of sporadic work BFA is almost ready for it's first public release! NOTE: this does not in any way intimate that the game is almost complete, merely that I feel it's at a state that I won't be completely embarrassed to have other people look at.
Here are some old pictures to look at (because everyone likes pictures!):
I've been working on and off (mostly off) on this game for a few years. It started off as a group project with a bunch of friends, but due to a lack of participation I've rewritten everything in it to be completely mine.
While it may not be the most visually appealling game I am quite pleased with the design of the underlying systems (physics, graphics, event system, input, etc). In my latest spurt of coding I've added a data-driven particle engine.. the current feature list includes:
- Data-driven particle system
- Data-driven weapon system
- Support for 3DS models
- Support for TGA, PCX and BMP textures
- Animated textures
- User-configurable key-mappings
- In-game console (a la Quake)
- GLF (font rendering library)
- OpenAL
- Simple Directmedia Library
- OpenGL (I guess I'll throw this in here)
- All models, textures and sounds were found on the net -- thanks to everyone who makes their work publically available!!