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Polaris v0.33a Progress Update

oakwhiz — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:01:42 +0000

Polaris is progressing, however, because of new time constraints, a public release is not expected for at least another month. Those of you which want to pre-order Polaris will have to wait for now, as we are dealing with licensing issues at the moment.

Below (after the jump) is an animated GIF of how modules react right now. The ship firing the lasers has a primitive auto-targeting system, which causes the lasers to point in many different directions. At the end, the ship has its lasers’ power levels bumped up to a very high number, which causes the ship to explode.

What’s new with Polaris:

Basic module selection system
Complete saving and loading of entire ships – you can create a ship, save it, and an exact copy of it can be loaded later
Started work on the in-game user-interface and ship builder
‘Aimable’ modules – lasers and thrusters can be vectored to point in different directions
New module types: Armored and Science
Module types are more balanced
Container system – modules can now hold objects
Many bugfixes

Polaris Demo Video

oakwhiz — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:23:32 +0000

I’ve uploaded a demo video of Polaris. Progress so far is good. Check out the nice physics!

Polaris article link: http://www.minousoft.com/2009/04/polaris-new-game-in-development/
Video link: http://www.minousoft.com/media-player/

Feel free to comment on what you think.

Rovernet Video and Minousoft File Hosting

oakwhiz — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:05:31 +0000

This Easter weekend, I have uploaded four new items to the Media Player, including a video of a new game called Rovernet. Now, I don’t want to release too many details about Rovernet at this point, since the project is still under development and is just the ‘shell’ of a game, but I will tell you the basics. Rovernet will be a 2D platformer centered around a small robot, which has been sent to another planet. This robot’s goal is to explore the surrounding area, gather information, and collect samples from the environment. The game has a very solid physics system for the robot itself, as the robot is capable of both flying, using rocket boosters, and driving on terrain, using tank treads. The robot’s physics system is easy to grasp, and flying is accomplished with only three keys. When the robot is set on a flat surface, any lateral movements are accomplished with the treads instead of the rocket boosters. See the video in the Media Player for an illustration of how this works.

Also check out the three new remixes in the Media Player:

Tetris Theme Remix
Final Fantasy 7 Battle Remix
Final Fantasy 7 Prelude Remix

I would also like to inform everyone about our new experimental file hosting service called Minousoft File Upload. It is currently in beta.