Hi there Leo

The gameplay in your demo looks very smooth and very capable for a tablet game. You have a lot of games currently in development 🙂 Do you plan on connecting both your Darkdawm games together? Did you train mostly on the Unity engine in school?

You have a great site that shows off what you have been working on and some of your levels are detailed nicely.

Welcome to SSC.

Hello, DarkOne! Thanks for the welcome!

Darkdawn is a kind of a long-running project for me; its a fictional universe that has become my own little mental playground. The adventure game "Echoes of Terra" available on my site is also a Darkdawn game. Lost Worlds is more of a tech demo than a game though; think of it as a proposal or experiment. In reality, the full game as I wrote out on my game design document would take at least a dozen people and something like 2M to make. But I've turned a little slice of it into my final school project to demonstrate my combined art, design, and coding knowledge.

Oh, and the Niferung Jungle level and the Viriel character are also Darkdawn projects. I would LOVE to make a much larger game that featured the various play modes and captured the scope of the universe as it exists in my head. Maybe someday, eh? I've planed out about 3000 years of backstory and about 100 years of future events after the era of the games I'm working on now.

SCAD uses UDK more than Unity in its classes, though because of Unity's ability to export to a variety of platforms and because its easier to manage for small teams, there has been some movement towards Unity recently. I'd like to think that as a grad student I'm helping to lead the charge; I'd been poking at Unity for a couple of years with an eye towards making web projects (not necessarily games; I was a pro web designer and archviz modeler for a few years) and I'm pretty experienced with it. There are also a couple of augmented reality games (like Citadel Omega) on my site that were made in cooperation with Georgia Tech's Augmented Reality labs and use Qualcomm's Vuforia AR plugin for Unity .

Heh short answer, yes, I mostly trained with Unity, but to some degree that was by choice. Grad students have a fair bit of latitude in terms of the projects we take on (as do undergrads as they approach graduation).

One last bit about Encounters: while its definitely more fun on a tablet, I've gone a bit out of my way to optimize it for somewhat older hardware. I'm testing it on an HTC Evo 4G, which is about two years old now, and though it can show a bit of slowdown here and there, for the most part it holds up pretty well.

Welcome to the forum Leoceballos

The game looking pretty solid from the demo but one thing I would change is the pew pew laser sound, that starwars sound effect is a bit overused.

Thats some great music you have with the game.

Hey PINBACK 🙂

I agree that the sound effects are not the best at the moment. Audio is definitely not my strong suit. Those are some generic, royalty-free sounds that I downloaded and tweaked a bit; I'm hoping to get an actual sound designer to help me out with that.

The music is also royalty free, and I feel compelled to give credit to Kevin MacLeod; I've used his compositions on a lot of his projects and he really has some amazing stuff. His site is at www.incompetech.com.