Afterburn (Sneak Peek)

chosenonestudios

Hey guys, been really busy lately with high school and college classes, but I've been working on a couple different projects and this is one of them! I expect to release a couple more soon also so stay tuned!

This is Afterburn:

Its basically a old school hockey game with polish and new age graphics.

Some cool things to consider:

+Multiple variations of the Ai for casual to hardcore players.
+Multiple themes
+A wide variation of settings and even more to come!
+2 player mode! Of course!
+Built in One scene for loading convenience!
+And much more!
+Stay tuned for the iPad version!
+I think this is the most polished GS Air Hockey game made yet. (Although thats not as spectacular as it sounds) Although ultimately, you guys will be making that decision!

*These are not the 100% finalized graphics and or gameplay. If you have any suggestions comments or questions, please let me know.

Images:









Please, let me know what you think, good or bad

Thanks,
-Will

Edit: The images look kind of choppy. Its because their still though, it looks alot better in motion.

quantumsheep

Looks very particle'ey', which is always nice

What's the music like?

QS

chosenonestudios

quantumsheep said:
Looks very particle'ey', which is always nice

Haha thanks.

quantumsheep said:
What's the music like?

QS

Ooh didn't mention that.

Link to Music

quantumsheep

chosenonestudios said:
Ooh didn't mention that.

Link to Music

Heh - love that track - it's in my own game, 'Singularity Drive'

chosenonestudios

quantumsheep said:
Heh - love that track - it's in my own game, 'Singularity Drive'

Hah, damn, theres not enough good stuff to go around.*

*Sorry about that, no evil intentions of audio thievery.

quantumsheep

Hey, no worries - everyone uses Mr. McCloud

QS

chosenonestudios

Yeah, his stuffs so good and it's free!

hrsmedia

Hey looking good so far. I know you said the graphics are not final, but I would work on the title screen. Afterburn title is hard to read. Let me know if you need a hand with it, i'm not too bad in photoshop.

chosenonestudios

hrsmedia said:
Hey looking good so far. I know you said the graphics are not final, but I would work on the title screen. Afterburn title is hard to read. Let me know if you need a hand with it, i'm not too bad in photoshop.

Thanks man, I appreciate it.

quantumsheep

oooh! Is that a big 'Pause' button on the main screen?

Why not include an options screen for music volume or on/off-ness and maybe sound effect volume?

Cheers,

QS

chosenonestudios

quantumsheep said:
oooh! Is that a big 'Pause' button on the main screen?

Why not include an options screen for music volume or on/off-ness and maybe sound effect volume?

Cheers,

QS

Just for you Sheepy.



*This ones especially not done (graphics wise), but it gives you an idea.

chosenonestudios

Hey guys, you can check it out here:

Link*

*The collision of the puck needs to be adjusted and a couple of other minor bugs, but thats basically it.

quantumsheep

Any chance you could put some 'ghosting' on the puck - just to give it a cool sense of movement (if it leaves a trail I mean!).

Also, I found that the menu was a little confusing as it appears in portrait mode if you pause it or finish the game. I think it might be a good idea to keep the menus consistent!

Just my $.02

QS

chosenonestudios

quantumsheep said:
Any chance you could put some 'ghosting' on the puck - just to give it a cool sense of movement (if it leaves a trail I mean!).

Also, I found that the menu was a little confusing as it appears in portrait mode if you pause it or finish the game. I think it might be a good idea to keep the menus consistent!

Just my $.02

QS

Thanks QS! Will fix / implement both!

quantumsheep

No problem fella! They're just suggestions, but glad to help!

QS

chosenonestudios

Heres the new main menu:

Still not totally sure what I'm going to do with it yet though. Should there be a animation? Some particle effects? Or do you think its fantastic the way it is? (I do)



I really appreciate barkbarks help on this one. Thanks again!

I've added "ghosting" still adding a "switch" to turn it on and off and correcting the sideways menus.

BarkBarkCo

Glad you like the Title!

Hope you don't mind, but here's a slightly larger shot of that graphic so people can see the detail*:



*Shameless self-promotion... ;-)

chosenonestudios

Hey guys!

Sorry, this should've been done a week ago, it really only needed two more hours. I've just wrapped it up though. I'll probably do all the beta testing tomorrow and then submit it tomorrow night. I had the worst week of my life last week though so I'm trying to move on.

Anyway!

Heres the new menu screen:


Only slightly different, but I think it looks better.


Heres the settings screen, more polished. 99% done with it.

Heres the game: Link!

I'd appreciate if you could check it out and let me know what you think.

Thanks!

StusApps

Hi

Just gave it a go. Seems good although I did hit a couple of problems.

First one was that sometimes when I score the computer character did not restart the game, just sat there with the puck in his half. Happened twice in 4 games. Other issue was when the computer scored and I restart the game the puck does not go the way that I hit it. I wanted to hit left and even though I hit in exactly the right place it went right, this happened every time.

Looks good though, I like the clean front page menu and the glowing ring characters. The particles are a little chunky, it does kinda get in the way of play.

StusApps

looking at your screen shots I see the particles are supposed to be round but the image for them has been cut square before it's reached the end of the glow.

chosenonestudios

StusApps said:
Hi

Just gave it a go. Seems good although I did hit a couple of problems.

First one was that sometimes when I score the computer character did not restart the game, just sat there with the puck in his half. Happened twice in 4 games. Other issue was when the computer scored and I restart the game the puck does not go the way that I hit it. I wanted to hit left and even though I hit in exactly the right place it went right, this happened every time.

Looks good though, I like the clean front page menu and the glowing ring characters. The particles are a little chunky, it does kinda get in the way of play.

Thanks, Im not sure why. I've found that after booting up and force quitting and then restarting it, it doesn't have the problems. Maybe GS is failing to initialize some of the rules?

I made an option to turn off all the particles and stuff. Maybe they should be off as default? It does save your settings though.

ZackGS

Nice game

How did you do your particle effects? There really good.

chosenonestudios

danny_iphone said:
Nice game

How did you do your particle effects? There really good.

Hey thanks. I basically just have a circle image and I'm using the particle spawner and I just transition and shrink the particles over time.

I believe wayne has a demo of this.

chosenonestudios

Hey guys, submitted the game late last night! It seems the approval process is around 10 days right now. Let me know what you think.

quantumsheep

Good luck with it!

QS

chosenonestudios

quantumsheep said:
Good luck with it!

QS

Thanks Sheepy!