Sky Sky Panic

nickavv · February 9, 2009, 10:30pm

Sky Sky Panic
Hey everyone. Sky Sky Panic is a souped up replacement for Wanilla’s first arcade game, Sky Sky Panic 3D, released February 19th 2008. Sky Sky Panic will be much more polished and visually appealing than its predecessor, as well as having improved gameplay mechanics to make playing more fun. Until the official release, enjoy screenshots and details revealed below!

Screenshots

NEW, MARCH 9 2009 (click to enlarge)
Game Over Playfield

Left - Desert Playfield
Right - Grassland Playfield

brianjkd · February 9, 2009, 11:12pm

I like it. Are you going to add shadows to the tree and cacti, other than that it looks great.

nickavv · February 9, 2009, 11:18pm

I could add shadows, yeah. I hadn’t thought of that.

User340 · February 10, 2009, 3:43am

Looking good!

theinfomercial · February 10, 2009, 6:29am

What’s the target hardware? I’d imagine you could increase the polycount on the cactus/trees since they look a bit low poly. The terrain that you got there is great, very stylish.

And yes, don’t forget shadows!

Dreamora · February 10, 2009, 6:57am

I agree looks very nice

But it could seriously benefit from “toonish lightmaps” to add a fair amount of depth.

Potentially that was meant with above shadows but wanted to add that in case above was targeted at realtime shadows

nickavv · February 10, 2009, 11:34am

Infomercial - Target hardware is any computer. This game will be played in the Web Player.

Dreamora - I’ve never done a lightmap before, but yeah, I don’t have Pro; so I didn’t even consider realtime shadows.

theinfomercial · February 10, 2009, 5:08pm

You don’t need realtime shadows for this kind of game. Those shadow blobs will do just fine.

Merries · February 10, 2009, 6:30pm

I like the artist style, makes it look fun and easy going. Keep up the good work.

nickavv · February 10, 2009, 8:15pm

Thanks everyone.

Also, info, you think I should just blob shadow the cacti and tree? I did already do one for the cursor, and that looks pretty good. I could even do a different texture on the shadow projector to get a semblance of realtime shadows.

theinfomercial · February 10, 2009, 11:31pm

It depends really. If your have lots of objects that won’t move or have their lighting changed, then baking a shadow map for the scenery will do wonders. But for your scenery, a shadow blob works just as well.

nickavv · March 9, 2009, 10:32pm

I overhauled this whole topic, and added a new screenshot of the “Game Over Graveyard”. Neat, huh?

I nearly just started work on it, so it will be a little nicer than it is now.