★★★ Monkey Ball inspired game for 2012: Utopian Games ★★★

UtopianGames

***Regular Updates See New Videos Below***

WIP video with a little insight on planning the code and thinking ahead.

This will be our biggest game to date with an estimate of 4-6 months work.



Darren.

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LeonardDeveloper

Looks Great So Far! I love the water scrolling effect, it integrates well!
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mynameisace

Looking awesome Darren! I'd definitely keep being able to go under the platform 3, looks great and a really smart way of incorporating pseudo 3D!

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ozboybrian

Looking good!

Crazy idea here - So the "Mask" is a constraint? why not just have the wall actors further away?
It's probably what you meant but just a suggestion incase lol

UtopianGames

@Ozboybrian the way I'm doing it there are no wall actors ie nothing around the platforms to detect if the ball has fallen, instead I'm using a tag with all the platforms in and if the ball is no longer in contact with the platforms you die.

Will have another vid soon to show you,

Darren.

ozboybrian

Ah very nice : )

Braydon_SFX

Looks great, Darren! Can't wait to see more!

beefy_clyro

Oooh looks like it'll be super fun matey

gyroscope

Really good stuff, Darren! Looks fun to play and I really like the fresh graphics as well as the neat idea of the player changing size when going up or down the platforms. :-)

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An update on progress.

Darren.

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RD

Can we help design levels?

pedro90

what text did you use for the numbers, how did you make these please

osucowboy18

@pedro90: I'm guessing Darren used custom fonts to achieve this. There's a tutorial on how to create this effect in the GameSalad Creator.

@UtopianGames: Looks great as always Darren, can't wait to see more!

- Alex

pedro90

ok, can you link me it please

osucowboy18

@pedro90: This video should help you out!



- Alex

morphinegamingmachine

looks awesome! cool mechanics

butterbean

I spent many nights playing Monkey Ball 1 and 2 for the Gamecube, and they're still my favorite! Great job on this one!

Braydon_SFX

@butterbean - Nothing like the old Cube eh? I loved that thing...

UtopianGames

Thanks guys

Happy New Year!!!

Darren.

butterbean

@Braydon: Totally! I still have a collection of games from GC, wonderful system

LeonardDeveloper

@utopiangames
Happy new year to you too!, Looking forward for Monkey ball..... Do you suppose this would be a template????

UtopianGames

I have added in some doughnut type platforms today with fall down to lower level and death.

I think in a few days i will be ready to start making some proper levels.



Darren.

UtopianGames

Been working on animation, game over, level complete and testing new level elements.

More updates soon.

Darren.

UtopianGames

Made another test level with moving platforms as usual each level will contain a secret area to find.

I have some Ice platforms that are real tricky customers coming up next.

I have also tightened up the controls from earlier videos for a more responsive feel.



Darren.

simo103

looking great Darren .... you Pros really know how to keep it fluid with clean gameplay feel ... hope this does well for you.

UtopianGames

Added some wip music, bump (if you hit something hard), bumpers etc.



Ice coming next...

Darren.