{"id":458,"date":"2011-08-31T03:51:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T03:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/31\/cosmic-lander-a-new-minigame-project\/"},"modified":"2011-08-31T03:51:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T03:51:28","slug":"cosmic-lander-a-new-minigame-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/08\/31\/cosmic-lander-a-new-minigame-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Lander, a new minigame project"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently \u00a0started to work on a new indie game<\/strong> on my spare time.<\/p>\n

The initial goal was to develop a series of really small games<\/strong> within very short development cycles, in order to address a largest spectrum possible with my favorite game engine to date: GameStart<\/a><\/p>\n

It turns out that it rapidly evolved into something a bit more ambitious, even I’ve been able to prioritize<\/strong> the tasks, and especially to work on a gameplay before starting the real artworks.<\/p>\n

From a basic “Lunar<\/strong> Lander<\/strong>” it ought to be, it moved to a gameplay with a series of closed levels (caves ?) in which the player must seek<\/strong> for a list of items, while struggling against the gravity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The graphics are basic so far, as mentioned above, mainly because I want to focus on what I’m not confident with : the level<\/strong> design<\/strong>. The visual aspect of the caves might eventually get painted or textured, but the real challenge here is to create funny & challenging levels.<\/p>\n

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So far, the game features 4 levels, no score, the basic win\/die gameloop, a minimap and a few bonus & traps. The physics<\/strong> engine<\/strong> plays an important part in the gameplay.<\/p>\n

I’m currently wondering to what extent it could be relevant to create a level<\/strong> editor<\/strong> inside the game, in order to have people create their own levels… Want to share your opinion? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently \u00a0started to work on a new indie game on my spare time. The initial goal was to develop a series of really small games within very short development cycles, in order to address a largest spectrum possible with my favorite game engine to date: GameStart It turns out that it rapidly evolved into … Continue reading Cosmic Lander, a new minigame project<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}