Walter Druck

Touch Device Game

walter druck — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:00:29 +0000

I’m working on a little something for touch screens. Going for something accessible and fast-paced, key feature is drawing symbols with your finger to cast spells.

You’ll shoot your way through hordes of monsters by tapping them on the screen and once you earned enough mana you can cast various fancy spells on the battlefield.

Mechanics for casting, shooting, spawning, inventory etc. are in place and I’ve got an early test level going. Now to tune gameplay some more, it’s not as fast and frantic as I’d like yet, I’ll see how far I get by adjusting some speeds and damage points.

I have a bunch more spells and enemies I want in there, so I’ve got some things to do before I think about how to deal with grafics.

Video #03

walter druck — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:15:41 +0000

Here’s the new video, documenting the development progress of my game project. The clip illustrates the core game ideas, all basic gameplay elements are now in place and working.

Quite a few ideas didn’t make it into this version, not sure whether to implement them just yet or rather move on and start modelling (plus a little more concepting ).

I’m quite pleased with interaction and movement, whereas combat might need some more variation – more and smarter enemies basically. I’ve also been thinking of additional ways to interact with the drone, e.g. “blind firing” it’s laser while beeing attached to it or wicked combo attacks and such. An additional research feature (similar to the existing harvest-feat.) could allow the drone to inspect specific environmental objects and upgrade it’s weapons or even level up certain abilities. Would add a nice gameplay layer and incite exploration and goody hunting. I might throw in some of those ideas occasionally, but most importantly I’ll get started with the graphics now. Should allow for more frequent updates – so long!

picking it up again

walter druck — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:38:26 +0000

been distracting myself for a while and now trying to get things going again. so I’m posting these older concepts before I completely abadon them.

in fact this is merely a teaser for things to come cause I’m in the middle of debugging my demo level right now. things have actually progressed quite a bit since the last video. will soon post a video of that and then finally move on to graphics!

Project Concepts

walter druck — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:10:38 +0000

I’m contributing some concepts to a good friends game project, a steampunkish medieval horror shooter using unreal engine 3. Gonna be pretty badass and hi-res, be sure to check his blog here

Some more scribbles

walter druck — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:39:52 +0000

Getting closer. I think number three on this sheet is pretty close to what I was looking for. Imagine that one popping out of the ground in front of you, getting on it’s hind legs, it’s underbelly opening up (S.King’s Dreamcatcher anyone?), revealing the full lenght of those alleged tiny feet. Already afraid of animating that..

some scribbles

walter druck — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:04:23 +0000

Some scribbles of what those red enemy dots (see video below) might look like. Not quite there yet, I think these need some shovel-like arms for digging

More scribbles. This is the direction I’ll be going with the fuelplants, those blue cylinders in the clip where the drone can harvest liquid it then uses as booster fuel.

prototype clip 2 ready

walter druck — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:14:53 +0000

So this is where I’m at with the game: been working on the enemy AI and the spawning system lately (and there’s still a lot to do) and started thinking about a demo level. Melee combat and enemy behaviours are still incomplete but gameplay is taking shape already. Here’s what it looks like at the moment:

I think I need to speed up the overall pacing, especially picking up the player with the drone is still pretty stiff. I might automate the pickup a little more and streamline the whole drone interaction further. In general I’m aiming to drive the player into evasive drone jumping and smart use of the drones ranged attack, so the pickup and enemy AI need work towards that.

Another thing I’d like to tackle asap is the camera which I’ll make a little more dynamic and dramatic.

Btw everything here is still dummy objects, I intend to take this thing the whole way grafics-wise, so the clips don’t say anything about the actual look of the game yet

Concepts

walter druck — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:44:46 +0000

Some of the later concepts I contributed to the MMO Celetania for Vulcando Games

Hello world!

walter druck — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:46:57 +0000

Here I’ll be posting my progress on this project of mine, a game prototype I’m working on whenever I find the time. Hopefully I’ll be able to make a small video of it’s progression every now and then. First one is already more than half a year old and a lot has happened since then, so in fact it’s about time to mold all the goodness into a new clip…

First one to start things off:

It’s basicly a third person action game featuring a flying drone-bot which is also your strongest weapon. While your character is pretty much limited to meele weapons you can always instruct your drone to attack or to carry you out of danger or over deadly cliffs (limited by the amount of fuel you find).

Don’t want to explain too much here, lots of ideas that need testing before I promise anything and hopefully the videos are going to be revealing enough.