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  • New devlog available : Pixel Art : The Cruiser

    Back in 2020, I was sketching many sci-fi stuff without any real purpose. At some point, I realized that I had created many little spaceship pieces. These modular parts can be arranged in many ways, allowing various iterations of the same spaceship.

    I repurposed this system and decided to use it as a basis for Voidborne's visual identity.

    Every section between the thruster and the nose can be placed in any order. Also, each section's "upper" and "side" parts are separate sprites and can be shuffled at will. You can flip every sprite horizontally or vertically to get even more variations.

    Experimentations went a bit further in 2021 as I sketched new ship designs. Here's a sneak peek of them:

    This feature will probably stay purely aesthetic. The battlecruiser will have a dedicated upgrade system to improve its combat abilities, but it will be a different feature. I do not want the player to feel compelled to choose between the "coolest ship" and the "best stats."

  • New devlog available : Feature focus - Tags & Missiles

    The battleship is equipped with two missile bays. In the current prototype of the game, only one type of missile is fully functional. Thus, the ship is always shown with two identical bays in videos and screenshots. These bays are composed of six tubes, each containing a heavy homing warhead.

    This type of missile must be locked on an enemy section before being launched. Locking a target is performed with the turrets projectiles: each projectile that hits a section will progressively stack "tags" on it. Every turret will add tags with different efficiency, depending on its base damage value, range, or rate of fire. An enemy ship's section can have a maximum of five tags at the same time.

    The "Tag" feature

    Homing missiles can be launched by pressing a key on the keyboard if an enemy section has at least two tags. The warhead will lock any enemy section that fulfills this condition and consumes the two tags. If more than one section is available for targeting, it will prioritize its target by selecting the last section hit by a turret.

    Heavy missiles and heavy turrets are designed to work in tandem: while turrets are your main damage dealers, missiles act more like ship killers. They are also very efficient at intercepting fleeing or hiding targets, thanks to their ability to navigate over every obstacle and bypass energy shields.

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    We will add other types of missiles in the future, allowing the player to simultaneously select two different launch bays for his ship. Every kind of missile will have a specific role on the battlefield, using the tag system in its own way.

  • Wow, love your project. It looks really cool.

    Thanks ! I will post updates here to explain the game's key features, show some assets, and so on. Feel free to follow !

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  • New devlog available : forever-a-clam.itch.io/voidborne/devlog/454934/feature-focus-heavy-turrets

    The battle cruiser embarks two heavy turrets. These weapons are your primary damage source against all medium and heavy class ships.

    Two different turrets are currently operational in the game's prototype: a 180 mm artillery canon and a 75 mm full automatic canon. While the first shoots powerful explosive projectiles with high range and accuracy, the second is more suited for devastating bursts at short range.

    You can deploy only one turret at a time, and each has its own ammo capacity. Reloading such massive weapons is a long process, so keep an eye on the ammo counter before rushing into the fray.

    Turrets are designed to synergize with the ship's missile launchers. Every successful shot will "tag" the target's section it hits. These tags can stack and be consumed to launch guided missiles on the target quickly.

    A future dev log will explain this feature further.

  • In Voidborne, many spaceships are built around a "destructible system" feature. Those ships are made up of different sections, each one being dedicated to a specific role: thruster, weapon, defense, sensors, etc.

    For example, this frigate has three sections: Weapon, Shield and Thruster.

    If a ship is taking damage, the section that takes the hit will also be damaged. If the section is destroyed, then the ship will lose the abilities associated with it.

    This rule is also true for the player's battlecruiser.

    Wrecks

    When a ship is destroyed, the section that takes the killing blow gets annihilated. The rest of the ship will turn into a wreck and stays on the battlefield.

    Wrecks are harmless but can resist a few hits, making them a temporary cover for a wise pilot.

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  • Voidborne has now a dedicated page on itch.io :

    forever-a-clam.itch.io/voidborne

    Feel free to follow the devlogs in order to see the updates an get more informations about the game.

    here is also a new gameplay video :

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  • jobelI will try to post some progression here from time to time, but the main thread will be on itch.io under the name "Voidborne". The game is still in active developpement but unfortunately my communication skills are not the best...

    I will post here as soon as the games page will be public on itch.io

  • Thanks, this could be a good way to create some kind of audio groups and subgroups ! I will try to adapt it to my needs and see what I can get.

  • Hello,

    I want to prevent the games audio volume to exceed a certain value. Im familiar with audio and I know how to use a compressor, but I want to apply the compressor to the master volume, or even better, to some groups of sound in particular.

    I already use tags for my sounds, for different reasons (effects, postionning, etc.), but it seems that a sound cannot have more than one tag, which means that I cannot create "tracks" which contains sounds that already have different tags.

  • 1 divided by A = the numbers you want

    Daaaamn, that was so easy... my brain cells should commit suicide.

    Im as grateful as Im sorry XD Thanks !

  • Hello,

    I try to figure out how to increase the value from "Every 1 seconds" by a factor A, so that :

    -If A = 0.9, then it gives me "Every 1.1 sec"

    -If A = 0.5, then "Every 2 sec"

    -If A = 0.25, then "Every 4 sec"

    -If A = 0.1, then "Every 10 sec"

    -If A = 0, then "Every infinite sec"

    I need to find out the math to obtain the good value for "ervery X seconds" for every A between 0 and 1, following the same logic.

    Any ideas ? :D

  • Thanks, this means a lot !

  • Thank you ! Feedbacks are always helpful, and good feedbacks are also pleasant ^^

  • Hello everyone,

    Im currently working with a couple of friends on some kind of Topdown shooter where the player controls a capital ship.

    Here's a video from the current prototype, showing some gameplay :

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    A lot of things are still missing, like the majority of the sound design.

    The gameplay aims to be very arcade with some basic "aim & shoot" system, but with a variety of offensive and defensive abilities, all quickly accessible and easy to use.

    As you can see in the last part of the video (starting around 3:45), larger enemy ships have a dedicated damage system : you can damage and destroy the different parts of the ships in order to cripple them. This is also true for the players ship : every part of the ship can be destroyed separately, leaving the player with malfunctionning weapons, thrusters and even some HUD elements like the radar.

    The game still needs a lot of work and many gameplay elements needs to be refined, but Im planing to release a playable version of the prototype this year in order to have some feedback !

    I will also try to post updates here from time to time.

  • Hello everyone,

    Im trying to use the "set tile with brush" action in order to let construct draw tilmaps quickly on startup, based on a minimalist tilemap that serves as some king of guide for a more comlpex one. Its working just fine, but only if I use just one 16 and one 47 brush.

    For exemple, if I create a second 47 tiles brush for the same tilemap object, the "set tile with brush" action on startup will either not work or results in a black screen on startup.

    I create a minimalist Capx where this problem can be tested :

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    On startup, every tiles are tested on a first tilemap that serve as a reference for a second tilemap. The first tilemap stays invisible and the second one "draws" with its own tiles in order to copy the first one.

    Try to change the brush in the action "Set Tile with brush". Brushe 0 will not work at all, Brush 1 will work and Brush 2 will show a black screen.

    All this 3 brushes are yet exactly the same 47 brushs.

    [EDIT] i updated the capx