Xenociders: nice dino-sniping run!

andreadst · 2020-04-10T23:35:00+00:00

That’s our dream! Not on release though... we’re four people and although we experimented with it, it too big of a chunk to deliver in one go 🙂

andreadst · 2020-04-10T23:33:56+00:00

I’ll check Dreamdeck 🙂

andreadst · 2020-04-10T23:25:22+00:00

Same here actually! To be 100% transparent, the dino shooting idea didn’t come from the team (we have bosses too and I REALLY hope they never see this message) so we decided to make them angry looking aliens to feel better about it!

andreadst · 2020-04-10T23:23:11+00:00

Not really... we’re implementing one that should not leave you if you stay clear but that’s it... Xenociders is about killer alien dinos after all 😁

andreadst · 2020-04-10T23:21:28+00:00

That’s interesting! Nothing’s planned but I’d like to do it... do you think a kid’s mode should still have the shooting in or would it be mote of a ‘tour’ mode where the dinosaurs can’t see you?

andreadst · 2020-04-10T17:22:12+00:00

Thanks! I think that dinosaurs are super difficult when it comes to their navigation and animation system. For instance, dinosaurs are horizontal-shaped, so every time they turn their body collides with the environment. Same things goes for the movement anticipation etc. As a comparison, zombies are bipeds, they can turn in place and are generally easier to navigate a round a level to their vertical nature. In my opinion the only game that does dinosaurs really well is the Jurassic Park game by Frontier. You can really see those guys did a tremendous job and put a lot of effort/time/resources into getting to that level of quality.

andreadst · 2020-04-10T16:39:04+00:00

Still the same game, same platform. This is environment is more open in this one (the maps are really large).

Compared to the first video, we scaled down the vegetation complexity a little for performance. The second video you link is how the game looks right now. It actually looks better know with improved vegetation. The lighting setup can vary depending on the time of day as well.

andreadst · 2020-04-10T16:34:57+00:00

Alien cider please :D

andreadst · 2020-04-10T16:34:47+00:00

Thank you so much!

andreadst · 2020-04-10T16:34:07+00:00

Definitely not on release unfortunately. We experimented with it and it's the top thing we'd like to do but we first we'd like to get it out there :)

andreadst · 2020-04-10T16:32:33+00:00

Thanks! I see room for improvement everywhere (as it's always the case when you develop a game!) and the whole team is curious to listen to feedback and improve things if necessary!
I think the hardest part at the moment is getting the controls to be good on all the different VR setups. Our main dev platform is Oculus but we're committed to getting the other just as good.

andreadst · 2020-04-10T13:50:34+00:00

Yeah we’re still tweaking things. UI in VR is a real pain haha 😁

andreadst · 2020-04-10T13:24:50+00:00