I render particles to a texture in greyscale, and then feed that, along with the scene buffer, into a post process shader that does some simple refraction of the image based on the greyscale data.
just wrote about your game in a forum, and remembered i wrote to you here. my feedback would be simple changes to be made (but i wouldn't be surprised if your reaction to this is that making these changes is changing your game in a way you do not wish to do), but here goes anyway:
1) regular dual-stick shooter controls.
2) no internia.
3) faster fire (makes aiming easier).
4) somewhat of spread shot but default (makes aiming easier).
It was on "The Next Level", in the community games thread. Someone had already commented that your game had hopes but the controls were bad. I was actually quite disappointed about this, because the technology behind your game was very promising. I responded there before even playing (I have played it now) because I already knew I would not have that "total control" I was expecting from a standard dual-stick shooter.
Curious, was this game originally a mouse-controlled PC game?
The mouse controls were only ever put in for PC testing.
daphydthebard 2 years ago
I'm really curious on how did you get the particle effects to blend in with the background like that? ^^
It looks so sweet and I really want to learn how! ^^
SimonAJager 2 years ago
It's a post process effect.
I render particles to a texture in greyscale, and then feed that, along with the scene buffer, into a post process shader that does some simple refraction of the image based on the greyscale data.
Simple stuff, but the effect is nice.
daphydthebard 2 years ago
good luck with this. what's that bar at the top of the screen?
matthewdoucette 2 years ago
Hey Matt
The bar at the top of the screen is a weapon energy meter.
You can now download and play Nebulon from the Creators.XNA website (it's in playtest).
Would love to get your feedback.
DarkOmenGames 2 years ago
just wrote about your game in a forum, and remembered i wrote to you here. my feedback would be simple changes to be made (but i wouldn't be surprised if your reaction to this is that making these changes is changing your game in a way you do not wish to do), but here goes anyway:
1) regular dual-stick shooter controls.
2) no internia.
3) faster fire (makes aiming easier).
4) somewhat of spread shot but default (makes aiming easier).
5) no weapon power enery metter, infinite energy.
matthewdoucette 2 years ago
Cool, on what forum did you put your original comment?
DarkOmenGames 2 years ago
It was on "The Next Level", in the community games thread. Someone had already commented that your game had hopes but the controls were bad. I was actually quite disappointed about this, because the technology behind your game was very promising. I responded there before even playing (I have played it now) because I already knew I would not have that "total control" I was expecting from a standard dual-stick shooter.
Curious, was this game originally a mouse-controlled PC game?
matthewdoucette 2 years ago
apologies for the spelling errors lol (*inertia, meter, etc.)
matthewdoucette 2 years ago
i thought about writing this to you personally, but i'd love to hear what other think about this, too...
matthewdoucette 2 years ago