History + Updates

Posted by elmernite on Feb. 23, 2007, 5:52 p.m.

For those that care I will give a brief history on the creation of Cell Burst.

Cell Burst started life out as a much requested sequel to Emoticon Tournament. For a time I tried it with emoticons and discover it just didn’t match the new darker style I was shooting for. I put the game aside and work on Explogen 2 instead. Then, after I finish that I decided I wanted to come up with a way to do it.

I come with the basic idea for the Cell like body and I found that worked pretty good. So I pick back up construction on the game and early 06 I release a very very early alpha. However, I kind of slacked off after that and nothing got done for a while.

Then, late 06, I pick back up the work on the game and manage to get out the second Alpha. This one was much better than the old alpha and by this time I had already designed the menus. This is the alpha posted here at 64digits.

Which brings us to the now.

I finished brawl mode and I pretty much finished Man Hunt mode. I also added a new game mode called “Eight Man.â€? Which as you can guess, is an eight man brawl mode. It’s a ton of fun! I have also, started tracking the stats of the player. You will be able to view your: Total games, Games won, Games lost, Kills, Deaths, Shots Fired, Shots hit, Hit %, and your number of badges[still not done yet].

Here's two screen shots.

Screen 1

Screen 2

I also spent some time lately optimizing my code. If anyone wants to know how I did this. I’ll take the time to explain how I did this in my next blog.

-Elmernite

Comments

Nighthawk 17 years, 11 months ago

Wow, screenshots look awesome! When does the demo with that stuff in it come out?

tylerthemiler 17 years, 11 months ago

Quit teasing us! :)

Seven men vs. tylerthemiler…Crazy. I remember fighting three at once in ye ole ET.

Graydon 17 years, 11 months ago

The screen shots look awesome, and I like the idea of tracking your stats. I have a question, is the game online? PM me the answer.

tylerthemiler 17 years, 11 months ago

@Graydon: That's the final goal, but he's still working on that.

elmernite 17 years, 11 months ago

Unknown for now. I'm still not sure what I want to be in the next demo. (However, you will get another demo, I won't make you wait till the game is finished.)

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

The game will be online if I can make it so. It's Like tylerthemiler said.

-Elmernite

Graydon 17 years, 11 months ago

Thanks for telling me because the game looks awesome and I would like to see another online game come out.

tylerthemiler 17 years, 11 months ago

Online, online, online! :)

I though you knew about my school situation. See my blog.

elmernite 17 years, 10 months ago

I do hope to do online.

Yeah, now that you mention it I kinda remember it.

-Elmernite

tylerthemiler 17 years, 10 months ago

Soccer hell week started today. It was pretty sweet. We had to do slide tackles in the rock-solid snow. A lot of bleeding.

elmernite 17 years, 10 months ago

The snow sounds fun! I hate soccor, though. Not being able to use my hands really bothers me. Goaly is the only thing I could play.

-Elmernite