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, 9 months ago

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

tylerthemiler 17 years, 9 months ago

Quit teasing us! :)

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

Graydon 17 years, 9 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, 9 months ago

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

elmernite 17 years, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago

Online, online, online! :)

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

elmernite 17 years, 9 months ago

I do hope to do online.

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

-Elmernite

tylerthemiler 17 years, 9 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, 9 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