UA 2009: Dumpster Town (Daily UPdated)

Hi community, my team decided to join the UA 2009, its our first time. We just set up a development blog and hoping to gather comments and feedback for the game. Hoping to make a fun game to let everyone play.

Game Name: Dumpster Town

Game Description:

The game is about Orca, the main character, on his quest to save his brother which is captured by a evil organization. And you as Orca will have to fight your way to save your brother. A simple and straight forward storyline.
The gameplay will be have a free roam function and play will be moving around helping the town folks, earning gold and buying an entry ticket to fight the boss which capture your brother. You as the player will be doing mini games and
upgrading your weapon to defeat strong monster and boss.

Features:

  • Free roam : Player is able to move to wherever they want and do whatever they like, there is no fix path
    -Mini Games: Something like quest but we put it as a main feature of the game. Helping people to earn karma points to for bonus…
    -Type of Game: Each mini games are of different genre, player can choice what they like and play whichever they want.
    -Upgrades: Each mini games have their own unique upgrade, a demo of the Mer game will have a upgrade function in a few days time.
    -Environment: The town is a little fantasy as we are presenting the game in a chibi( big head small body) style, so doing fantasy and mech genre is what we are aimming for.
    -Monsters: Each robots that player face are unique and has their own abilites, a guide will be presented soon.

Here’s a sneak peek of the game characters. :slight_smile:

*Ps: Press “o” to hide cursor.
Protect your boxes.
Robots with red cudes are able to heal your boxes hp

The demo is at: www.boxheadteam.bravehost.com
Developer’s blog: www.boxheadteam.wordpress.com

Enjoy. :slight_smile:

Boxheadteam

Got some concept about the enivronment. Arts are drawn on A3 paper, thus use a camera to shoot it.


Visit the developers’ blog for more pictures and updates. :slight_smile:

Some here are some updates from the team, we have been changing some stuff and improving the game here and there. Put some textures in and the following is the imrpovise, Defence of the Mer mini game, its one of the mini game in Dumpster Town.


Version 3 Description:

-Mission: Protect Yellow Boxes
-Press “o” to hide cursor

  • Added start button by pressing “e”
  • Added reset button by pressing “r”
  • Added texture
  • Refine shooting
  • Total of 5 waves of robots
  • Shoot white boxes to recover HP

Demo : www.boxheadteam.bravehost.com
Developer’s Blog: www.boxheadteam.wordpress.com

All feedbacks are welcome. :slight_smile:

Dumpster Town Roaming Feature

Description: A sample of how the free roam will feel like in the game. Will be adding mouse camera movement as we found out its quite hard to move without the mouse.



Controls:Controls:

  • WASD to move
  • Press ‘j’ to attack
  • Press ‘e’ to talk to NPCs
  • Press ‘q’ to reset camera angle.

*Ps: the game take quiet awhile to load due to its drawcall, a improvise version will be coming soon.

Demo: boxheadteam.bravehost.com/section4_.html
Developer’s Blog: www.boxheadteam.wordpress.com

Visit Developer’s Blog for more updates!

Here are some updates of the town/environment.
Texture and more sections will be coming soon. Here are section 1 and 4.


Visit the developer’s blog for more updates!
Developers’ Blog: www.boxheadteam.wordpress.com

I really like the look and feel of the buildings and environment. Nice job!

Everything looks great and professional. The graphics are stunning as well. What are you using for modeling?

Thanks for the compliment, its very nice of you guys. The program use to model is maya.

Ok, so we present you the Version 5 of the game. We added in gold and score. New upgrading feature to increase the attack power.


Description: Since the last update, we have added in a demo upgrading shop, highscore and a total of 10 waves.

Try to beat the developers: highscore of 4560!

Controls:

  • Mouse To Turn
  • Left Click to shoot
  • Press ‘e’ to start game
  • Press ‘r’ to reset game
  • Press ‘u’ to go upgrade after each wave

Standalone Mac: http://www.mediafire.com/?5wfjm0dhzdt
Standalone Wins: http://www.mediafire.com/?5nixik1oz4m
Web-Player: www.boxheadteam.bravehost.com/version5.html

Developers’ Blog: www.boxheadteam.wordpress.com

You keep impressing me with this game. I’m looking forward to its next release.

thanks you. :slight_smile:

Wow, nice concept drawings. Looking forward to watching the 3D progress on this.

Ok folks! we got some updates, not major but still its a update! We tweak with the upgrading shop and thanks to our programmer for making it happen.



Add in semi-trans model, as the main focus is the weapon and sounds to tell users what are they clicking.
Texture and proper sound will be coming soon.

Demo: www.boxheadteam.bravehost.com/testUpgrade5.html

Some updates with the art. The followings are art of npc which players will see in the game.



*Ps: is there a max resolution to post on the form? If so i will resize it.

Demo of the upgrade feature is at: www.boxheadteam.bravehost.com/testUpgrade5.html

Please visit www.boxheadteam.wordpress.com for more updates.

Looking really good! Nice to see some more people from Singapore in here!!

lol. Thanks alot. I think there are other singaporeans joining these too . But i do not know who are they…

Description: A few updates since the last version. New environment and more waves. A total of 10. Boss waves are in the middle of the waves and upgrade shop have a few changes. A side scroller bar to change the rotation of the model. There is no amount for the upgrade yet but the prices are the same.

Some screenshots.


The upgrade shop is under construction, the prices of the upgrade are the followings.

Upgrade 1 cost 100.
Upgrade 2 cost 250.
Upgrade 3 cost 400.

Webplayer:www.boxheadteam.bravehost.com/mers.html
Mac Stand:www.mediafire.com/download.php?t2titmmmqtl
Win Stand:http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jvmdd1d2nxn

Visit The developer’s Blog for more updates!

Here is some of the colour for the buildings in the game but i feel that smt is amiss. So as my team mate. We are gathering feedback. Hope we get some comments and make a nicer environment. :slight_smile:

Please throw what you think at us.

Visit www.boxheadteam.wordpress.com for more updates.

Ok, we are getting close to finishing the first mini game in Dumpster town. The post beta build we have here.

Since the last update, the upgrade shop has been missing a few features and we got them in this time.



So as you can see this are the visuals that the upgrade shop has. We got our main web at : www.boxheadteam.com but it is still under construction.

Dowload stanealone at: www.boxheadteam.com/download
Web Player: http://boxheadteam.com/download/DOFM_postbuild_web.html

Please feedback to us if you have any question.

Hi all, here comes the beta build for our game . We’ve added CG movie, free-roam environment/4 sections, a main protagonist (Orca), GUI, and fitted nicely together with minigame.

Instructions:

  • Recommended Resolution - 1024*768 with FullScreen
  • Hit ‘Enter’ after the CG movie play finished, upon seeing a flashing box.
  • The GUI closes and opens upon loading.
  • Press ‘E’ to interact with the gates, which can transport the player to other sections. (A total of 4).
  • Press ‘E’ around the black box at the first section. A chat box will appeared. Hit ‘E’ all the way, and you will be brought to the , or ‘C’ to cancel.
  • Press ‘Space’ to start the wave, ‘u’ to go upgrade shop.
  • When the game finishes, you will be brought to a gameOver Screen.

Web Player:
http://www.boxheadteam.com/download/PostBetaBuild_v2_web.html
Mac Standalone:
http://www.boxheadteam.com/download/PostBetaBuild_v2_mac.zip
Windows Standalone:
http://www.boxheadteam.com/download/PostBetaBuild_v2_win.zip

We need your feedback, and constructive criticism. Thanks.

Ok folks, we have final done the product for the contest and although it’s not 100% completed, we decided to still submit it.

The game and the screensshot are below. Download the standalone to give it and shot. Comments and feedback are all welcome.

Cg Trailler:














The game:







Instructions:

  • Recommended Resolution – 1024*768 with FullScreen
  • Press the button after the CG movie play finished, upon seeing a flashing box.
  • The GUI closes and opens upon loading.
  • Press ‘E’ to interact with the gates, which can transport the player to other sections. (A total of 4).
  • Press ‘E’ around the black box at the first section. A chat box will appeared. Hit ‘E’ all the way, and you will be brought to the , or ‘C’ to cancel.
  • Press ‘Space’ to start the wave, ‘u’ to go upgrade shop.
  • When the game finishes, you will be brought to a gameOver Screen.
    -Have Fun
    -Wish us luck in the compition.

Download:
http://www.boxheadteam.com/download/PostBetaBuild_v4_mac.zip
http://www.boxheadteam.com/download/PostBetaBuild_v4_win.zip