What's everyone working on? (tigsource inspired)

[Doctory]

i am currently working on a gmod clone
its nothing much, i got addons done, im gonna make a github repository for them
i have to implement a lot of things tho

im using kikito's bump library

[Jimanzium]

Local co-op versus in spaceships (AI players in screenshot)

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Having trouble making a good looking player setup screen though

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[Germanunkol]

The game looks great, and local multiplayer is always cool!

As for the setup screen, some suggestions:

• Make buttons large enough to accomodate the entire text
• Loose the very strong blue tone as a background. Using black (as in the game) might work better
• Remove/simplify the outlines of the buttons and the player-fields. The way they are now, it looks like the borders are more important than the content.
• Why does each player have two boxes (one with the glowing outline, and then the inner box for the buttons)? I would remove the inner box entirely.
• Add simple, once-coloured icons for "rebind" (keyboard or controller?), the CPU/Player option (computer icon and person icon). Same goes for "Save setup" and "Play".
• Why are there 7 players? That makes the number of players per row uneven, and you scale the player fields' width to accomodate for that. I would make the player fields all the same.
• Karboom does a lot of these things right in its player setup screen. Maybe you can draw some insparation from there? Check out the second screenshot here.

[Ulydev]

Here's a screenshot of pOp, the party game I'm about to submit to the App Store :



Added trails behind players after seeing Jimanzium's post, it adds even more energy to the game ! Thank you.

[Jimanzium]

@Germanunkol: Thanks for the advice! It already looks a lot better, I'm not sure what I was thinking with that colour scheme. Also, the the width/height of the player boxes is based on how many players there are, not sure why I used 7 in the screenshot but if it was 6 there would be 3 in each row, 5 would put 2 on top and 3 underneath.

@Ulydev: Glad I could help.

[Doctory]

nother game!
this game is called thomas. its about a man who.. well i have no story so dotn hate :p
please tell me a story if you come up with one
i dont have any pictures but i do have some sketches i made.

this is in game.

this is level selection.

[Manio]

nother game!
this game is called thomas. its about a man who.. well i have no story so dotn hate :p
please tell me a story if you come up with one
i dont have any pictures but i do have some sketches i made.

this is in game.

this is level selection.

This looks a lot like Thomas Was Alone.

[Doctory]

yea, because it was inspired by it
it was supposed to be called tom, but a friend suggested the name thomas but i didnt know the name of the actual game

[Jasoco]

Believe it or not it took me all night last night to get this AI working right and in the end after a rewrite it was simple as pie.

[Doctory]

Believe it or not it took me all night last night to get this AI working right and in the end after a rewrite it was simple as pie.

cool