Dusty Sprocket - A Side Scrolling RTS

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Hey there, everyone! Just wanted to stop in and mention my game, Dusty Sprocket! Dusty’s a side-scrolling steampunk RTS currently in development. We’ve made the jump from our own proprietary engine to Unity and we couldn’t be happier! I am so amazed at how quickly Unity can pump out prototype after prototype. If only I could go back in time and slap myself into using Unity sooner… :?

Anyways, look for a lot more updates here soon. If you want to check out day-to-day progress, you can always check out www.dustysprocket.com

Also, here’s a little video I created that shows off the art direction I’m going for.

Thanks for lookin’!

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The environment work you’ve done so far looks great, very polished.

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Thank you very much! Greatly appreciated! :slight_smile:

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This looks absolutely lovely. Not much of gameplay seeable unfortunately, but the artdesign is heartwarmingly stunning.

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Really beautiful artwork, and i love the level select screen. Great job :slight_smile:

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This looks great!

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I love it! Can’t wait for more.

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This is beautiful. Really. The cutscene tests are looking amazing. And the level select is too beautiful.

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Thanks so much, everyone!

Yeah, not too much in the way of gameplay videos yet, but hopefully I’ll put up a few soon explaining a bit about our unique approach to RTS’s! :smile:

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Did you see Swords Soldiers already? As far as I know the first sidescrolling RTS. Works nicely too!

http://www.swordsandsoldiers.com/

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Sure have! It’s a really fun game! Totally love the art style! The genre works really well on the Wii too!

Side-Scrolling RTS’s are pretty hard to find, but I think the earliest is a little game from 1984 called ‘Rescue Raiders’. Pretty brilliant for its time! I also did the artwork for a 2006 side-scrolling RTS game called ‘Steam-Brigade’. It’s great that side-scrolling RTS’s are getting more and more attention these days, especially with the release of ‘Swords and Soldiers’. I think the genre has a HUGE amount of potential.

Anyways, hopefully I’ll be back soon with a video or two featuring the gameplay. It’s definitely a break from the traditional RTS gamestyle, and quite the mashup of genres! Stay tuned! :smile:

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Looks like an extremely beautiful game! :slight_smile:

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Simply beautiful artwork. Very inspiring!

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Cool, thanks for the history lesson! =)

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Thanks, Knives and Maker!

Hey there, Dylan! Glad to help! I think Swords and Soldiers is definitely the most polished out there. There’s also Patapon, which probably qualifies under the polished side-scrolling RTS banner. :slight_smile:

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The art is excellent. It looks so beautiful when you scroll across.

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Thanks, Sinu!

Animating the transitions between levels has been a huge addiction for me. And that’s just stage 1! The game has me going through a large forest fire, and scaling a bubbling volcano. I hope to capture those scene changes in the level select menu itself. We’ll see! :slight_smile:

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Oh man, this looks so beautifull, thanks for showing us!
Do you have any timeframe in mind?
Anyway I will keep an eye on this one, I’m sure it will be an inspiration to many.

Regards, Robert

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Absolutely loving this. Even showed a friend and read the whole blog so far. As a digital painter and designer, I absolutely love the idea of making art come to live through games, and yours does a fantastic job of it. I’d love to see how you are implementing the characters (2d planes, 3d models, etc). A assume the parallax-scrolling background is based off of the level width, scrolling a percentage as you advance? Keep up the inspirational work.

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Thanks, Robert! No timeline I can announce. Look for it sometime next year though!

And thank you, David! Glad you’re enjoying the blog! Perhaps sometime I’ll compile a video of me working on a level from scratch. Then all the mysteries will be revealed!