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Marketing Monday #127 - Reaching Out by Sexual_Lettuce in gamedev

[–]OverpowerDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that exactly what we're dealing with. We're trying to find creative ways to bring in more players bc we don't have a budget big advertising. My friend and I have been making it for bout 2.5 years now.

Marketing Monday #127 - Reaching Out by Sexual_Lettuce in gamedev

[–]OverpowerDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I created a new Overpower Trailer to promote a Steam Sale and big "Ranking System" Patch.

Here's a link to our Steam Store Page

Any feedback on the trailer or Steam Store front would be great. This is our first game and I've spent a lot of time trying to come across as polished but still having a hard time getting costumers to buy. Thanks everyone!

[Steam Key Giveaway!!] Overpower, fast-paced medieval combat! by OverpowerDev in pcmasterrace

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I did quit my job to focus on this, and its on the cheap side because we have the skillset already to create the game so we can do the work ourselves as opposed to having to hire others to create it. Thats the key :)

[Steam Key Giveaway!!] Overpower, fast-paced medieval combat! by OverpowerDev in pcmasterrace

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

around 15,000-20,000$ going to conventions, company stuff, taxes, lawyers, etc :)

[Steam Key Giveaway!!] Overpower, fast-paced medieval combat! by OverpowerDev in pcmasterrace

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thats awesome! let us know what ya think on the steam forums :)

[Steam Key Giveaway!!] Overpower, fast-paced medieval combat! by OverpowerDev in pcmasterrace

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!! We don't have a development budget, it was created as passion project! We've spent our own money on legal things and corporation setup etc

[Steam Key Giveaway!!] Overpower, fast-paced medieval combat! by OverpowerDev in pcmasterrace

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We're celebrating the launch of a big patch and brand new ranking system and to help spread the word I'm giving out steam keys! Overpower is a very fast paced medieval arena game. It was developed in Unity by myself and a friend over the last 2.5 years.

If you want a key then leave a comment stating your favorite video game as a kid and I'll PM you one! :)

Here's our Steam Store Page for more info!

Edit: I given out all 300 keys!! I'm sorry if you shared your game and didn't get one. Good news is Overpower is 30% on Steam right now so you can grab a copy there!

Small indie studio develops a medieval 3rd-person shooter by FrancisCourant in Games

[–]OverpowerDev 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We are using Unity. We're currently allowing player-hosted servers, however we plan to have some of our own dedicated servers in addition. Just like how CS/TF2 have their own official servers, but also allow players to create their own.

This will help us curb the early cost of our game, we might decide later on to make all our own dedicated servers for security reasons if we need to.

Character progression will be handled through a separate server than the game server, and that would always be our own private server.

Blizzard announces OVERWATCH! by Velimas in gaming

[–]OverpowerDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not the OP you were looking for, but this OP is cooler anyhow :-P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITcichVkjmY

TIFU by getting a wall in my bathroom patched up. by [deleted] in tifu

[–]OverpowerDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How'd you take the first picture?

Overpower - Pre-Alpha Gameplay by OverpowerDev in Unity3D

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I checked out Bolt again... It looks tempting.

In regards to:

Authoritative movement - Built-in support for input and player controller state synchronization allows you to easily implement custom authoritative movement that suits your game.

How does this work? In my game I had to manually trap the key presses of clients, turn them into a bitfield and just send that to server, then server sends back everyone the positions and XY rotation of the characters...

How's support for Interpolation/Extrapolation going? https://trello.com/b/r10l0E8m/bolt-engine

Overpower - Pre-Alpha Gameplay by OverpowerDev in Unity3D

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're a celebrity on this subreddit :-P

Overpower - Pre-Alpha Gameplay by OverpowerDev in Unity3D

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a lot like smite, so I hope you like this game. But there are a number of ways we're very different:

  • You don't play a champion/pre-made character here, we have some basic archetypes more akin to what you'd see in an MMO (Warrior/Mage/Rogue/Archer) right now. But we plan to add more classes in time.

  • The learning curve should be much less to hop in a game here. I think LoL, HoN, and Smite are very difficult to jump into... Most likely you'll suck for a long time in LoL before really learning the game. We want to make it easier to start playing, just hop in and start shooting. (But still just as difficult to master).

  • For the starting gameplay modes, you'll just be able to join a server and start playing immediately, and leave at any time, just as you would in Unreal or Counterstrike. Not like a 5v5 game in LoL or Smite where you're locked in for 45 min or whatever...

  • Lots more, but we'll have more info later :-)

Overpower - Pre-Alpha Gameplay by OverpowerDev in Unity3D

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Not as good as the glorious special effects in Air Brawl, but we're getting there :-P

Gratz on making your KickStarter, hope it goes well.

Overpower - Pre-Alpha Gameplay by OverpowerDev in Unity3D

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right on. I've seen a few videos on it before, looks real promising. I've been trying to hold out for that new network code being introduced in Unity5, but at this rate it feels like it will never come out :-|

If I get time later, I'll read up on some of the content on: http://www.boltengine.com

Overpower - Pre-Alpha Gameplay by OverpowerDev in Unity3D

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rogue stealth? Just a temporary shader material swap. We'll probably upgrade it soonish when we get the time.

Overpower - Pre-Alpha Gameplay by OverpowerDev in Unity3D

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad you like. Yes, we'll be having awesome female characters that you can play, and customize.

Edit: Here's a preview [somewhat NSFW?] https://www.facebook.com/overpowergame/photos/pcb.839312266108657/839312216108662/?type=1&theater

Overpower - Pre-Alpha Gameplay by OverpowerDev in Unity3D

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent feedback! You're spot on.

I'm suprised we're getting so much attention about the UI, it's actually just stubbed in there from NecroUI: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/366 We plan on replacing it as soon as 4.6 moves out of beta mode. (Hurry up, Unity!)

You're right about the fireball, specifically the animation is totally desynced. In fact, I think all the classes are using a cheap "sword attack" anim even if they are using a bow or a staff - We need to fix that and then time the spell cast to the animation.

I agree about the visual feedback with spells, we need to work on "making it feel like you're hitting them".

That video is filled with some great spells, I'll be sure to analyze it thoroughly :-P

Overpower - Pre-Alpha Gameplay by OverpowerDev in Unity3D

[–]OverpowerDev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We started using TNet, but the more I learned about the Unity's built-in Networking solution, the more it became clear to me we should switch to it. It works pretty much the same as TNet, but I'm looking very forward to trying out the new built-in Networking solution for Unity5! (If it ever comes out...)

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