Dark basic game ..... CollegeCarnage :)

[stephen0205]

thought id throw this up on the site, it is a development i guess, wether anyone is interested or not is a different story, anyhow im posting

anyhow

for my hnc games development i have been put in a team with 3 other people.

out task, create a 3 level game, anything we wish, and paperwork to follow.

Well i decided i was taking the team leader role, well kind of , i took the sheet and ran

well i decided we were making a third person shooter, called college carnage, based in our college (james watt college kilwinning campus)
well basicly the janitor locks up the college on a friday afternoon,locking all students and lecturers in, then from a remote he releases a toxic gass throught the venting system, infecting everyone inside, turning them into mindless zombies, well the liveing dead, same thing. 4 comp techies were called to come in for a saturday job, they arive let them self in with a key from a side door, unrelizing they have left the key in the door, making there way to the top floor they encounter no one, once in the room there is a scratch on the door, looking throught the window and relizing what they have say then decide one will go look for a way to get the the next level safely and he leaves the group, at the center stairway you will have to fight a boss, being a lecturer. Once u win u drop a level in the college getting closer to getting out, u play as 3 characters for the 3 levels, and the 4th becomes infected and u have to fight him to complete the game and leave the building. Could u kill a colleague to save 2 others and ur own liffe ???

anyhow well exzageration there, we started making the game, 2 people in my group are experts with 3ds, great modelers, i havent recieved any of there work yet but from what we did first simester it was awsome, i have been choosen to do the programming, we decided dark basic.

Dark basic pro to be procice, so far i have a basic menu, havent done anythig much yet, but is there anyone who knows darkbasic who i could ask for pointers.

I know this should be in the db forums but i thought hey there are some talented people here.

Anyhow ill keep u posted on my progress, ill have some pics, of the menu and my company logo, video cube enjoy

[eagle5953]

I'd say your odds of getting an 'A' pale in comparison to getting expelled.

A first-person shooter "based on your college"? That's just asking for trouble. Seriously.

[XCVG]

Use WASD instead of the arrow keys. It makes reaching for the numbers easier. And you should have to improvise weapons, McGuyver style.

[stephen0205]

McGuyver style. nice

no its all kl, we were to come up with an idea and then pitch it, and told weather or not we were allowed, and it was approved, they think i was a creative idea, and want to know what lecturers we were going to use for bosses.

and yes wasd is much easier, ill change that later on.

[stephen0205]

Gonna get the basics layed down tonight, the fps style, map the camera, add in a bad guy, some ai, then later then the models are made just change them

[64M320N3]

Use WASD instead of the arrow keys. It makes reaching for the numbers easier. And you should have to improvise weapons, McGuyver style.

I was thinking more of Condemned, but that's just me...

[palmertech]

Do you have any idea how you will pull this off, coding wise?

[grossaffe]

I once made a doom3 level to represent one of the rooms in my high school. Filled it with a bunch of zombies and one demon in front of the white-board as the teacher. Planned on expanding to a greater portion of the school but its tough working from memory to model that stuff when you lack the skills.

anyways, your project sounds like fun. keep us posted on how it goes.

[ghosstt]

Do you have any idea how you will pull this off, coding wise?

Dark basic is a rather simple coding language, as well as being an engine type deal for 3D games.

[antrock101]

I'm a games development student from England. I could help you, i would not recommend dark basic tho. The syntax is awful and the engine is buggy as hell, I'd recommend torque game engine only around 200 dollars aswell. Syntax is c# so you can learn it in an hour thanks to microsoft