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First Dudebro II in-game screenshots finally released, shit just got fucked up!
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hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
cuyahoga said:
If you popularized the term "dudebro" on GAF, then I regret your role in promoting an adjective that people throw around like it means something useful or descriptive. I do not begrudge the creation of this video game, however.
Oh, also that HUD looks pro as hell. Dudepro.
Kud(br)os to all involved.
ElectricBlue187
Member
GOTY I'm calling here
Yeah, I can see that. They play very differently, though.MNC said:
Gun Bros has arenas and weapon enhancements, Dudebro instead has larger environments and missions.
1. Backwards compatibility!kamspy said:
2. Unity actually uses PhysX for the physics engine. No idea about hardware support, honestly.
3. He should be voicing everyone.
4. I'm sure he'd love to rock out some beard metal.
5. My shitty laptop from 5 years ago runs it smoothly! Switching to sprites also means lower system requirements (and a higher enemy count).
6. It's planned, but it's early to tell if/how it's going to be implemented. It will depend on our resources later on, and how the netcode fares with the gameplay being pretty physics intensive.Yasae said:
7. Same as above. I believe there's some potential for competitive multiplayer, but it's early to tell.
8. No DRM, it's free!
AnkhWeasel
Member
Dude, that looks awesome. Straight-up.
Bro.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
thetrin said:
If you want to pass it off to me, you can
JK, I don't really like the idea of someone finishing someone else's script unless it's a last resort. Really looking forward to it and how you're gonna execute the "twist".
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Zeliard said:
Yes sir. The superstar voice of Doug Huggem is still voicing Dudebro.
cosmicblizzard said:If you want to pass it off to me, you can
JK, I don't really like the idea of someone finishing someone else's script unless it's a last resort. Really looking forward to it and how you're gonna execute the "twist".
I'll give it to you to finish if I die before the script is finished, because you'll have to pry it out of my COLD DEAD HANDS!
diztrukted
Member
good job so far guys!
italianfreak240
Member
This game has changed so much. Keep up the good work guys. Can't wait.
cartman414
Member
Wanted to try out, but was embarassed at the thought of failing to say brodiocity/brodaciousness in character properly.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
NDS.jufonuk said:
Bundled with a copy of Babiez.
cooljeanius
Member
Yeah, it still exists... we just haven't made enough progress for another major testing round yet.yencid said:
Flying_Phoenix
Banned
The sprites look great.
You know. After reading your comment, we spent the next 6 months thinking of what could we make to evolve, to go one step further than every other single company has ever gone. To make the game thrilling again!.MacBosse said:
We introduce you... the cardboard boxes!
You can grab 'em, throw 'em and even kick 'em!. Cardboard boxes. The future, is now.
(nah really, I was thinking about what to add in a certain environment and made these boxes while having some snacks)
A few articles about yesterday's screenshots:
http://shogungamer.com/news/amount-dudebroness-simply-too-much-these-new-screens-dudebro-ii
http://www.destructoid.com/first-dudebro-ii-screenshots-show-promise-194398.phtml
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2011/02/its_straightup_dawg_time_first.php
http://shogungamer.com/news/amount-dudebroness-simply-too-much-these-new-screens-dudebro-ii
http://www.destructoid.com/first-dudebro-ii-screenshots-show-promise-194398.phtml
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2011/02/its_straightup_dawg_time_first.php
Thanks, man.Oblivion said:
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Jocchan said:
I like some of the comments. Glad we finally got these out since it seems like a lot of people didn't know what the game was about at all.
It's been decided already, and even if we took profit from the game, Evilore has nothing to do with this, just the people actually working on it.besiktas1 said:
Either way, we will release it for browsers and hopefully one day release it for iOS and charge just the smallest amount and use that for charity.
The bigger problem would be sharing eventual profits with whoever contributed, even marginally, in a way that satisfies everyone (nearly impossible). When money starts getting involved, things get messy. So I firmly believe we need to avoid that.besiktas1 said:
Charity was actually considered from the very beginning, regardless of later ports: the idea is to add a button somewhere on the website, to allow everyone who liked the game to donate money to a charity organization (the one we'd like to use is, coincidentally, Child's Play, but with the game being far from done we haven't really looked into any specific solution yet).
As far as ports go, we'll have to wait till the game is done before evaluating the best course of action.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
BloodySinner
Banned
I thought this was going to be a side-scrolling shooter?
cartman414
Member
BloodySinner said:
Nope. Always been a top-down shooter.
Always-honest
Banned
well done. nice.
^^^ Thanks!
Jokes aside, just a mix up. Happens all the time, no biggie! Hopefully it will get fixed
Ultim8p00 kindly offered his side-scrolling engine in Game Maker but, with the large amount of 3D artists that joined and Will's experience with Unity, we ended up choosing the latter and going top-down as originally planned.
My very first pitch was, in fact, a basic top-down shooter akin to Minigore, just 2D and with different levels with some basic props (like rocks and trees). And with chicks as human shields.
You can pick up and throw several props, and the mechanic is integral part of the gameplay. For example, you can pick up a barrel, throw it to a pack of pissed off yetis and blow it up, or they can pick up a metallic crate and throw it on your head, or
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Without physics their behavior would be very different.
They're from the super-secret chapter set in Feudal Japan.cosmicblizzard said:
Jokes aside, just a mix up. Happens all the time, no biggie! Hopefully it will get fixed
Actually, the side-scrolling shooter route was indeed evaluated for a bit in the very beginning.BloodySinner said:
Ultim8p00 kindly offered his side-scrolling engine in Game Maker but, with the large amount of 3D artists that joined and Will's experience with Unity, we ended up choosing the latter and going top-down as originally planned.
My very first pitch was, in fact, a basic top-down shooter akin to Minigore, just 2D and with different levels with some basic props (like rocks and trees). And with chicks as human shields.
Actually, there's a reason for that: physics.CryptiK said:
You can pick up and throw several props, and the mechanic is integral part of the gameplay. For example, you can pick up a barrel, throw it to a pack of pissed off yetis and blow it up, or they can pick up a metallic crate and throw it on your head, or
you can walk by an innocent-looking heap of cardboard boxes and have one enemy pop up from inside with boxes flying everywhere
Without physics their behavior would be very different.
If we make everything sprite-based though, going with a 3D environment is almost worthless, we would be much better working on a full 2D game.Wichu said:
What we are doing is just making characters, weapons and HUD sprite-based, and some of the effects as sprites, the rest as full 3D. It's an actual design decision, not just a technical barrier of any sort.
It's not like we are the first game to ever do this though, there are games like Ragnarok Online that have been doing this since many years ago, and the system is practically the same:
Environment-related stuff - 3D
Player and enemies-related stuff (this includes items too) - Sprites
As for boxes and stuff that explodes, you could say they are related to the player (he can grab 'em), but it's also related to the environment, so that's why we are making them 3D.
There would be a performance hit, especially with many of them on screen. But actually, even if we added them, they would probably feel inconsistent with the rest of the environment (that doesn't have outlines), and I'm afraid they'd stick out more (which is both good and bad). When you're mixing two very different styles it's hard to keep consistency. You need to lay down some rules and stick religiously to them, because every time you break - or bend - one the player will be the first to notice and, unless it's intentional (for example, to stress interactive elements that would otherwise go unnoticed), get turned off (most likely outcome in most situations, actually).Wichu said:
The rule we've been going by is pixelated characters, "realistic" 3D world (well, as realistic as our resources allow us to be). Sounds simple enough in theory, but there's plenty of instances where it's hard to classify something as one or the other 100% of the time. The difference is rarely always clear cut, and it often depends on the nature of what it's going to interact with/come out from.
Quick example: blood. We have blood spurts coming out from characters that get hurt, and bloodstains projected on the environment after you kill them. The blood spurts, coming from the characters, should be pixelated to look right. Bloodstains, instead, become part of the environment, so they should be "realistic". Same for effects like flames or explosions, who can have both sprites or 3D models as their source. What's the best choice? Hard to tell, but one eventually needs to be made, and often you need to see the results in practice to make sure you're going on the right path.
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