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Tetraformer (Cancelled)

Posted: July 25th, 2011, 10:58 am
by cork279
Okay, I know I'm working on 2 games (and anothe non-sandbox game) already, but this is a side project :)

I'll make it in the Sandbox SSP mode, and it will be a puzzle game. I may need quite a bit of coding for this idea, but I need some practice in cubescript, so this is good.

The idea is, it's like any other platformer, mixed with a bit of Tetris. It is a puzzle game, where everything is made up of tetris blocks, at certain locations tetris blocks will fall which you can control, to fit into a gap on the map, this will hopefully complete a line of blocks, breaaking the line, maybe opening a new entrance.
If you are confused, look at this 2D concept image:
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I will model all of the tetris blocks, instead of using the terrain cubes stuff.

Comment below if you want to help! :D

Re: Tetraformer (Tetris Platformer)

Posted: July 25th, 2011, 3:24 pm
by chocolatepie33
This has an interesting concept, I'm just not sure how you would pull off the blocks in Sandbox.

Re: Tetraformer (Tetris Platformer)

Posted: July 25th, 2011, 3:43 pm
by cork279
The blocks will be models (obj), or .md5 models animated to move, with different keys pressed.

Re: Tetraformer (Tetris Platformer)

Posted: July 29th, 2011, 4:18 am
by cork279
UPDATE! :D
I've started the map where the game starts; You are in a room of a house, when suddenly you are shrunk, and sucked into a handheld games console laying on the table. On this console is the game "Tetraformer".
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The map is about 10% complete so far :P
And then I also need to make the normal sized version of the map, for before he is shrunk.

Re: Tetraformer (Tetris Platformer)

Posted: July 29th, 2011, 11:27 am
by arcones
Looking good Cork!

Re: Tetraformer (Tetris Platformer)

Posted: July 29th, 2011, 7:19 pm
by chocolatepie33
maybe you could make the console a mapmodel, then later make a teleporter with it.

Re: Tetraformer (Tetris Platformer)

Posted: July 30th, 2011, 12:15 am
by DrChef
in case you didn't know, if you select everything you made in your map, copy it, and then decrease your grid size, (g+scroll) and then paste it, you could easily make a smaller map, as long as it's not too small, or else you lose detail

Re: Tetraformer (Tetris Platformer)

Posted: August 4th, 2011, 12:51 pm
by cork279
Cool, I didn't know that :D
Although, some things were made in the smallest grid size, so it might just disappear...
Might try that for some things though :)

@CP That's a good idea too, I might try it!

Re: Tetraformer (Tetris Platformer)

Posted: August 5th, 2011, 9:03 am
by cork279
I'm canceling this project, due to lotsa other stuffs to do (such as orkmoth, revelade revolution, and lotsa musics to make) , and I get easily distracted :P

Re: Tetraformer (Cancelled)

Posted: August 5th, 2011, 8:08 pm
by chocolatepie33
That's too bad, Cork, seemed like a great idea. Maybe once you finish your other projects...