Alien Fan Project

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Alien Trilogy is an old but nice shooter i reviewed recently and started a small fan project in Unity.

It is not much at the moment, but maybe you could give some suggestions.

Models from gamebanana.

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Finish it! I’d totally play it if you did. Keep it quiet and desolate and don’t change the art :slight_smile:

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Thanks for your feedback. The art is very low to get an old school look on the one hand, and to have good performance for mobile on the other hand. The next video will have more content.

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Small update with crosshair, muzzle flash and impact effects.

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Xenomorph added.

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I was expecting to see a Xenomorph to crawl on the roof then jump onto the player. Looking good though.

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Thanks. It is just sensing and then following the player at the moment. A better behaviour is following soon.

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Nice, this looks really promising, but you should add some lighting effects for more dramatic atmosphere to it.

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You are right. This will improve the scenery a lot.

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I remember AT! Looks great. Though, and I’m sure it’s not a final thing, the alien looks teeny. Like a chess-piece alien puppy :slight_smile:

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Thanks. Yeah it is a smaller one. It may be a weaker drone at the beginning. The real warriors will come later. :slight_smile:

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I don’t want to be that guy, but 20th. Century Fox has, in the past 20 years, axed many, if not all, fan-made games based on the Aliens franchise, citing IP infringement and sending out C&D letters to developers. In the late 90s, this practice even became universally known as “being foxed”. I’m just telling you his so you aren’t disappointed when you have to scrap your hard work in fear of a possibly lawsuit. So if you wish to share your game at some point of time, you might have to create your own IP.

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Thank you for the information, and you are right. Due to this point i will have to replace the models, i know. And it is sad but true, because then it is just another shooter.

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It doesn’t have to be “just another shooter”. If you add something different it can be much more then “just another shooter”. Its up to you.

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I’d hardy say it has to be just another shooter. loosing the xenomorphs might loose a bit of the surface identity, but keeping the theme of having the player being hunted by a smart, potent enemy which can outmaneuver the player if they’re not on their toes still gives the game an identity

and it does let you make your own funky alien variations :slight_smile:

that aside though, the current scale of enemy to player looks pretty off, since your looking down on the enemy, which makes it seem more cute and friendly than scary

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I love the Aliens franchise, too and would love to see what a fan could do with it. Aliens has had a big impact on Sci-Fi media so it’s not hard to see that one can take the basic premise of supposedly superior firepower and technology being mired in a hostile, dark environment against a foe well-suited to fight in it. Examples are the Alien Breed and Natural Selection games, as well as the Space Hulk boardgame.

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As soon as I read, “Make your own funky alien” all I could think of was a disco alien with an awesome afro getting funky.

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and now that’s all I can think of

I don’t know ether that’s glorious or horrifying o.0

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Thank you for your interest and comments. I am trying around with a different approach and will post as soon as i have something worth seeing.

Have a nice day / evening (depending on your time zone) :slight_smile: