WIP: 3D game with dinosaurs

AlienDjinn

Wow, very cool!

Dave

Oh my GOD!! This is so ridiculously exciting... Mega Turok vibes

Dave

@Keliot my jaw is officially on the floor... This is just outrageously brilliant.

waldron

@Dave Turok man of good taste !

Keliot

@Dave Haha Thank you Dave.
A small game similar to Turok is exactly what I'm trying to do.

PickleCatStars

Looks awesome :)

Keliot

I didn't have much time for Fuze lately but still I want to share with you the current state of my game.

Retrocade_media

@Keliot reminds me of serious Sam

Keliot

@Retrocade_media Only needs a screaming kamikaze dino

Keliot

Again I want to give you a small update on my game. I've been working on the level part of the game. Really time consuming. (For me)

Now i've to put the dinosaur project and the level generation together. shiver

PickleCatStars

That looks really awesome :D I like how you’ve got the rocks sticking up to give the illusion that it’s all still there. Quality update :)

Keliot

@toxibunny Thank you, glad you like it

Retrocade_media

Looks really good, other than some minor pop-in due to the way you're improving performance. I would recommend putting some form of fog around the player just before that pop-in to cover it up, as this will be especially noticeable if you ever have a long corridor made of multiple rooms

PickleCatStars

I don’t think fog’s going to go so well. The alpha transparency in Fuze 3d is weird... A little bit of pop-up is fine, imho..

Jongjungbu

I wouldn’t worry about the pop-in.
Keep it up, looking good.

Keliot

@Retrocade_media Thank you. Yes pop-in is a problem with this method. Would be great if Fuze had a build-in fog function.

spikey

@Keliot just have to tell you, since I showed your first few vids to my son to show him what others do with Fuze he asks me from time to time, out of the blue if that dinosaurs game is already available for downloading. 😄

Keliot

@spikey Wow that's nice to hear. I won't let little spikey down :D

Dave

These developments are exceptional - well done @Keliot you've done an incredible job. This project will no doubt be a... roaring success :)

Jonboy

Wow @Keliot this is incredible.

I had a few thoughts on the performance. You could possibly reduce to the visible rooms to two if you had solid fences in each entrance / exit. These could open when you're close and close when you're a certain distance away. It would even allow for just one visible room until you are close.

Other ideas: drawing a very thin transparent plane (very thin stretched cube!) might provide a fog effect. Multiple ones could be used for longer distances.

I am only suggesting these in case the addition of monsters running around and various other objects, collisions and AI etc. will of course slow things down.

Also consider, there's nothing wrong with targeting 30FPS. So many games, even today run at less than 60.

Many games run at much lower resolutions than we expect. Dropping down to 1280x720 even when docked is Ok. But you'd might be surprised to see how many games actually run at 940x540 and much lower. If you doubt this, check Fortnight, Doom, The Witcher and so on.

Finally, FUZE will get faster on the Switch. We're working on the Bytecode implementation which will help on the CPU side of things. So where you are currently being hit when accessing a lot of arrays and variables in loops this will improve very significantly.

My two cents worth..