My Pico Day '09 Project

[cHunter]

Well, being the ambitious person I am, I have decided to start working on a fairly extensive Pico Day game over my Holiday Break. You may be wondering why I'm starting this early. Well the answer is simpe...I plan I remaking Pico's School in full 3D and have it be a sexy FPS with RPG elements (the story line will have to be expanded a tad). I will also be working on this by myself (so the artwork and music will suck, lol).

I wasn't sure if worklog type posts are allowed in the programming forum or not, but I decided to go for it anyways. I'm working with Blitz3D (oh haha, a BASIC language, aren't I cool?) due to the time constraint as I hope to get this all done before break's over. If not, I've left myself plenty of time between then and Pico Day.

Today I worked on just the level editor. Starting from scratch I think I got a fair bit done. Included is a screenshot of the level editor in action. Tomorrow I'll work up a way to add all the different objects like chairs, desks, chalkboards, and whatnot. Maybe I'll even add some lighting. But for now:

[WoogieNoogie]

That's actually a pretty cool idea. It's too bad you wouldn't be able to submit it to the portal.

[blah569]

This looks very nice so far. Good luck with the project. ;)

[cHunter]

At 12/20/08 04:59 AM, WoogieNoogie wrote: That's actually a pretty cool idea. It's too bad you wouldn't be able to submit it to the portal.

Yeah, I was thinking about that. I'm not too sure how I will get the word out about it on Pico Day. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to make FP posts by that time.

At 12/20/08 05:00 AM, blah569 wrote: This looks very nice so far. Good luck with the project. ;)

Thanks, I'll probably be needing all the luck I can get, lol.

[Jon-86]

Well this is insanley ambitious, but I hope you stick with it. You could make a quick animation to promote it and submit that to the portal, but we will always be here to check out non-flash greatness :)

[cHunter]

At 12/20/08 09:19 AM, Jon-86 wrote: Well this is insanley ambitious, but I hope you stick with it. You could make a quick animation to promote it and submit that to the portal, but we will always be here to check out non-flash greatness :)

Yeah, I was thinking of making a quick little promotion. Maybe I can get away with showing an embedded trailer for the game, haha. =D

[cHunter]

Sorry but there's only a small update today because I had to finish up some work for school. In the hour that I was working I added a couple more items and changed around the item selection screen to make more room for other various objects. At least now I can whip up a quick screenshot of a classroom in mere seconds.

Critz and comments are always welcome. Having 60+ views and only 3 replies makes baby Jesus cry.

Oh, and what do you guys think of this as the theme?

[liaaaam]

Wow, great progress. Don't worry about "publicity", Tom is always willing to help promote any NG members work (flash or not) in his news posts and this will be of incredibly high interest to him so if you finish it I'm sure you'll get plenty of well deserved attention. I don't think you'll need to expand the story too much, simplicity isn't always a bad thing !

Good luck with building the engine :)

[cHunter]

At 12/21/08 01:49 AM, liaaaam wrote: Wow, great progress. Don't worry about "publicity", Tom is always willing to help promote any NG members work (flash or not) in his news posts and this will be of incredibly high interest to him so if you finish it I'm sure you'll get plenty of well deserved attention. I don't think you'll need to expand the story too much, simplicity isn't always a bad thing !

Good luck with building the engine :)

Thanks man. But yeah, I think it'd be boring to run around the school aimlessly killing goths. There needs to be more things to do. If I'm building this game then I want there to be more than just 10 minutes of gameplay, haha. Darnell needs a bigger part in the final product as well. From what I can tell he was only in the beginning of Pico's School and then got killed instantly. He definitely needs to have a flamethrower in my game. :3

[cHunter]

Just a quick update, here's a basic classroom and bathroom. Any comments or suggestions?

[killer0ed]

At 12/21/08 02:37 PM, cHunter wrote: Just a quick update, here's a basic classroom and bathroom. Any comments or suggestions?

Damn, that looks pretty good.
Is there any way you can give us a closer look at the school? Like a First person perspective of it and not a birds eye view?

[cHunter]

At 12/21/08 04:47 PM, killer0ed wrote: Damn, that looks pretty good.
Is there any way you can give us a closer look at the school? Like a First person perspective of it and not a birds eye view?

Well this is just the level editor so I sorta hacked it into FPS view. It will look better in the final product I hope, heh. I need new models/textures for pretty much everything as well, but yeah, enjoy.

The room still needs a ceiling, lol

[Aceilikeeggs]

Oh....wow.

Not too shabby in the map editor, but up close.....um....yarg.

If I could suggest FPSCreator, or something of the like, it'd really add to the FPS rather than the whole "short blocky builiding bleh" feel. Adds textures and such :3

But yeah, coming along really well. Bravo

and yes, I know it says that FPS is around 50 USD, but I could discreetly send you a torrent.
Discreetly

[cHunter]

Ugh, not FPSC again. That thing is rubbish. I want to actually make this game, not drag and drop it. :P

[Aceilikeeggs]

Haha, yeah.

I know what you mean, but it's not half bad.

It's actually pretty open to modifications (to a degree, anyway), and works sorta well with 'em.

I actually tried making a demo (sans drag and drop) and it didn't come out half bad.

[cHunter]

At 12/21/08 10:43 PM, Aceilikeeggs wrote: Haha, yeah.

I know what you mean, but it's not half bad.

It's actually pretty open to modifications (to a degree, anyway), and works sorta well with 'em.

I actually tried making a demo (sans drag and drop) and it didn't come out half bad.

If you want your game to look and play like every other FPSC game out there then use it. It's really a very bad program to get mixed up with. :3

[DanielZ]

Nice job, man. How about adding some better lighting, it feels like a cave inside the classroom.

[cHunter]

At 12/22/08 04:34 PM, DanielZ wrote: Nice job, man. How about adding some better lighting, it feels like a cave inside the classroom.

Haha, yeah, but keep in mind this is just the editor. I hope to have a decent lighting engine in place for the normal game.

[linkinparkpie43]

a urinal in a classroom nice

are you gonna have the bug-boss from the orignal in it?

[RKthrilla]

At 12/23/08 02:11 PM, linkinparkpie43 wrote: a urinal in a classroom nice

Why is that even in there?

[sirtom93]

Wow that's pretty awesome. I am always interested in the projects people make around here, whatever media type they are. I await updates on this.

[UtkuProduction]

Looks Good .. I Love It

[cHunter]

At 12/23/08 02:11 PM, linkinparkpie43 wrote: a urinal in a classroom nice

are you gonna have the bug-boss from the orignal in it?

I plan on having the story have all the key points from the original but be a little broader. I plan on having Darnell and lots of fire in mine. :3

At 12/23/08 10:04 PM, RKThrilla wrote:

At 12/23/08 02:11 PM, linkinparkpie43 wrote: a urinal in a classroom nice

Why is that even in there?

It's not, I just had my brush set to urinal so when I went in to take the screenshot and the mouse was positioned over that wall, a urinal showed up, lol.

At 12/24/08 10:41 AM, sirtom93 wrote: Wow that's pretty awesome. I am always interested in the projects people make around here, whatever media type they are. I await updates on this.

I haven't had much time to work on this these past few days because I was with my Jewish grandparent's house for Hanukkah and now I just got back from my Christian grandmother's house for Christmas. I did, however, get a music player coded into the game so you can have user tracks playing in the background during the game.

At 12/26/08 04:03 PM, UtkuProduction wrote: Looks Good .. I Love It

Why thank you. =D

Sorry I don't have a screenshot of the music player (I call it an iP.O.S.) to include with this post. The code is on my laptop and I'm currently on my desktop. I am also slowly realizing I need to find a graphics artist soon, haha.

[RKthrilla]

This looks like it's going to be pimpen I cant wait for it good work

insert lots of support to be put in credits :)

It actually does look cool, hopefully it turns out well.

[uSux65]

NO SHADOWS????

[cHunter]

At 12/26/08 10:24 PM, RKThrilla wrote: This looks like it's going to be pimpen I cant wait for it good work

insert lots of support to be put in credits :)

It actually does look cool, hopefully it turns out well.

Haha, I plan on adding a bunch of people in the credits to make me feel popular. :3

At 12/27/08 02:15 AM, uSux65 wrote: NO SHADOWS????

You're a shadow. And no, I probably won't ever add shadows. If anything they'd be just the lame circles under objects, heh.

[linkinparkpie43]

don't forget picos ability to fly when he shits incorpate that into the game and its all the more awesome

[cHunter]

At 12/27/08 08:38 PM, linkinparkpie43 wrote: don't forget picos ability to fly when he shits incorpate that into the game and its all the more awesome

Oh god, not Pico's shitty power. For some reason I don't think that will be available in the final release, lol.

[Bapabooiee]

I haven't got much to say, so I'll just say this: Looks good, and good luck - maybe saying this will somehow make you get your project done faster =D

[cHunter]

At 12/27/08 08:43 PM, Bapabooiee wrote: I haven't got much to say, so I'll just say this: Looks good, and good luck - maybe saying this will somehow make you get your project done faster =D

Haha, well it's hard to find time to work on this project in between all the video games and porn, ya know?