Vector-Y

Just before I'm leaving on vacation, I wanted to post some shots of my
contest entry, Vector-Y. I've chosen a steam-time factory look,
somewhat inspired by Oddworlds factories (for those that played Abe's
Exodus and such).

Of course, it had to be surrealistic at some point, so I decided to
twist parts of the map in terms of orientation. Expect walking on
ceilings and walls and using a tube-system as a fast transport method
(teleport styled probably).

Some shots:



The first area, normally oriented, features a open lying RPG. I'm
trying to make it hard to reach in terms of cover and moveability to
some extend.



Second area, this one's flipped on the side. You'll be walking on the
sides of transport belts, while crates come by in an endless stream.
Might be usefull as a transport system to reach hidden area's.



Leading from the previous area, this is a normal hallway with some
transport belts leading outside. I'll probably take the hall to a
flipped train station or something similar. I'll see what that turns
into later.

Notice the transport belt, well, going weird.

So far, I've done only basic architecture for half of the map, plus some entity testing and basic textures/lighting choices.

Feel free to comment or critisize. I'll try to check back as soon as possible.

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One question Captain, are all the odd gravity area's just made so that
players are always walking normally, it just doesn't look like it; or
have you figured out some incredible way to manipulate gravity within
the game, ala Serious Sam :smile: .

Apart from that, could do with some more detail, seems sparse, and some
more complex brush work I think, but you've already said that stuff is
on its way, so good stuff so far :smile: .

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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

Just a thought. Why not call it "Victor-Y" for now and after you finish you can take out the hyphen and call it Victory?

As for the map, I cannot say much, its all better than I can make. I have one question. The box, is it glued to the curve? It seems to be sliding off.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

It's supposed to be a non-realistic map...

I personally like it. Good replacement for my comp entry which will never come to pass...

Until Later...

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Dark_Kilauea
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i like the verticalism in the first shot, will make for good gameplay
imo. nice architecture in the 3rd shot, and the transport belt turning
vertical is idd a nice twist

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Walls could use breaking up, particularly in the first shot. Having the
same brick texture all the way up, particularly one so small, really
makes it too repetitive. As you said its early days with the detail and
whatnot, but it looks like an interesting start :smile:

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Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net

Thanks for the replies, I'm back from vacation now so I'm productive again... :razz:

I've worked out some of the other area's while I was on vacation (a
boat trip on the Main and the Rhine, on a ship owned by some friends of
us. A transport vessel, yes). Expect shots of a rotated train-station
soon.

The twisted area's won't have a different gravity for the players, I
think it's more surreal to have people running on walls and ceilings.
Plus it's less investigating into physics and forces and such (if
different gravity directions are even possible)... :wink:

The transport belts will function like expected, or something like
that. That means there's no box sliding off but a box moving on, along
the curve, and onwards.

I also hope to finish a beta version this, or next, week, so I can do some playtests before finishing the map for the compo.

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