Onionman's coding blog

[sscadmin]

Is Venn Stone doing your mission briefings? And happy b-day Rusty!

[Onionman77]

Yea, we still have him on board. Plus a few more voice actors added to the team as well, actually.

[Onionman77]

Working on AI now, but it's proving to be really hard. With the kind of freedom the ships have, it's getting hard to program a computer to pilot them..

[sscadmin]

I'm not a developer, but I would guess that creating a AI would be quite a undertaking. Especially since it would need tweaking a lot during the process because you could make them too good. Will there be friendly AI in the game Onionman?

[Onionman77]

Yes, I'm hoping to have at least a few missions where you have a wingman or even a squadron.

[Onionman77]

Got some AI in and some recorded lines in the game. Oh also some nebulae! Next up I think I'm going to improve the gun play a bit. Maybe add some enemies to the FPS areas. Rusty is hard at work on Mission1 as we speak.

[Onionman77]

Got FPS enemies nicely walking around on patrol. I'm quite happy with it Some of these enemies are happy flying around and it looks kind of cool. Going to be working on giving them proper exhaust on their thrusters and proper gatling gun fire now.-Onion

[Onionman77]

Just thought I'd fill in on what I've been up to lately. Been adding a bit of hud information so that enemy ships are highlighted on screen.Also just added in 2 laser types for the fighter, one that damages shields and one that damages hull. There's also laser cooldown now. So you'll need to switch between the two efficiently if you hope to take down an enemy fighter.Now I'm going to work on displaying information about the next targeted enemy.

[Onionman77]

Alright got saving and loading into the game, and 2 different difficulty levels. Guess I'll work on missiles next? Then fine tune all that FPS play stuff.

[Onionman77]

Got missiles into the game! They are fun!

[Onionman77]

And here is a video of those missiles in action!

[Pinback]

That's brilliant “He’s toast -burnt toast” nice one guys.

[Onionman77]

Hahah, glad you like that ;)So I'm pretty happy with how the space part of the game is playing, at least for the alpha. I've been playing the first few missions and I'm having a really good time, so I think I'll leave that like it is now. I'm going to start focusing on the FPS part of the game, is there anything you guys would like to see? Otherwise I'll try to draw inspiration from Halo and Resistance, try and come up with something fun.

[Pinback]

The space section looking very smooth although it may be a bit on the green side.
Onionman wrote:
I'm going to start focusing on the FPS part of the game, is there anything you guys would like to see? Otherwise I'll try to draw inspiration from Halo and Resistance, try and come up with something fun.
Are you looking for suggestions on weapons or features Not sure if this possible to do but would there be any way to turn the gravity off in the station/ship.

[Onionman77]

Oh that's actually a really good idea.

[Onionman77]

Alright, I think the game is working pretty well! Got a nice menu in, and really cleaned up the FPS part of the game. That's playing much better now. The engine is more or less ready for an alpha release I think. We've got some odds and ends to tie up, but then I'm hoping we can submit to Desura by the end of the week!

[Onionman77]

Alpha is ready!!! Submitting to Desura now, lets hope it makes it!

[sscadmin]

Congrats on the milestone Onionman!

[Pinback]

Likewise Onionman congratulations

[Onionman77]

Thanks guys, that happened a lot faster than I thought it would but.http://www.desura.com/games/ensign-1/