#1 Jun 26, 2015 2:56 PM

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Spyro Project Prototype(s) (Fan Game)

Hi...

Since March this year, I have been working on this Spyro project of mine, and it has been coming along nicely. I will most likely be able to finish it sometime this year maybe so that's exciting. I have been posting progress videos and updates over at both dS and YouTube for a while now and so why not share it here?

I keep calling these prototypes for some reason because I wanted to experiment in keeping with a real life development cycle, but that didn't last long and the game is more or less in a "first playable" or "alpha" stage by now

The links to their downloadable .exe files are in the video descriptions, but I might post a link directly to them here to avoid a kerfuffle. I FEED OFF FEEDBACK <------Feed me!

Controls are currently: WASD to move (although S doesn't move you), <Space> to flame and hold <Shift> to dash/charge.

The videos show how the game has progressed, from earliest to latest. Some earlier versions may be outdated and obsolete so there's no real need to play those

_prototype_070315:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG_7IbvFxCk
Downloadable .exe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9-diU … VaS0k/view

_prototype_210315:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BTqQY4f8Ss
Downloadable .exe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9-diU … BTak0/view

_prototype_300315:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXw2Ol57_Bs
Downloadable .exe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9-diU … NfTkE/view

_prototype_050415:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_iIvRDHk8s
Downloadable .exe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9-diU … E5SEE/view

And then there's a couple of glitch videos I made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpfSCJAYvvY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRmMVgsqTUo

The next update is BIG and not far off. I made some screen shots of it but no viedo yet:

New night level with new enemy

Locked chest with key. Explodes with gems when touched if a key has been collected (no image for that happening though)

As you can see, two sheep are visible. The big red thing is a spawner which will be invisible in the actual game. There will always be at least two sheep per spawner.

There is this funny animation I made for when sheep die by fire, similar to the one found in Spyro: Fusion/Orange There is also a special butterfly with magical sparkles smilie. These spawn when 10 fodder are killed but I put these two here for the purpose of testing. There's also now a lives counter with an image of lives from Spyro the Dragon

And here's a snippet from my changelog :

+ Added animations for sheep sprite    21/06/2015
+ Added AI for fodder and a sheep object    21/06/2015
+ Added butterflies which restore hp    21/06/2015
+ Added a fodder spawner    21/06/2015
+ Added special butterfly which spawns every 10 fodder kills    21/06/2015
+ Added lives counter in the HUD with an icon    21/06/2015

I probably don't need any help making this currently, but later on I may need resources like sounds so we'll see

Hope this doesn't lag with all the content I've put up

EDIT - 20:06 on 05/07/2015

I'm posting a new update here, as well as moving the previous one up to this main post.

Old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sbS2fMpdVs

New: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-0qLoEpzgQ

EDIT - 18:54 on 27/07/2015

Update!
I won't embed another YouTube video as that would take yet more processing and work for the internet to load.

Have a link instead...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9xfcaTy6Js

Not much in the way of added features this time, but it does smooth out controls a little and adds sound. that's right...SOUND
Oh, and there's also pausing.

EDIT - 16:00 on 17/08/2015

MOAR UPDATES!

Now, the first two videos are old news, but the third is brand spanking new

Slightly old news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cco4iZu2XtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcCW40jDAJI

New stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSby7ZB8VQ

BE HAPPY!

(Also I should change some of these <youtube> tags to <url> tags to clean this page up a bit).

EDIT - 14:26 on 20/09/2015

Thus far, I've posted a few videos featuring tidbits of updates, but I made this big 29 minute video which sums some of it up. This is a bit out date, though, as this was made over a week ago from now.

https://youtu.be/ETtNC8GXj2c

Last edited by Waffled (Jul 29, 2016 5:58 PM)

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Re: Spyro Project Prototype(s) (Fan Game)

Looks nice, gonna download it and check out.

//Edit - So far so good. If you were to ask me, it could use a bit faster movement and better/faster walking animation. Also, the time it takes to walk after bumping into something is nearly painful. but wait, it could be caused by my pc actually. In your recordings it seems slightly faster. If so, then I don't have any problem :v

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Re: Spyro Project Prototype(s) (Fan Game)

The game runs at 60 fps. Perhaps your PC may be running it at 30? I have no idea if that is the case or not. ;/

I also wanted to redo movement with faster movement and friction and stuff, more alike Spyro: Fusion/Orange (the game may not be good but movement and controls were great for a 2D platformer approach to Spyro)

Because here at...Waffled company(?)...we value your opinion

Edit: I hate having to edit my latest post, but here is the latest development...

[video now moved to the main post at the top]

Edit 2: yet another update, check at the top for details - Edited at 20:05 on 05/07/2015

Last edited by Waffled (Jul 05, 2015 7:13 PM)

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Re: Spyro Project Prototype(s) (Fan Game)

This game is really good! I like how spyro is using your avatar, if this gets finished, it's gonna be really unique and really good!

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Re: Spyro Project Prototype(s) (Fan Game)

UPDATE TIME

This update is pretty late and I wanted to get it out there since I have AS exams approaching. It's been delayed a little by one last week and there's gonna be lot more where that came from

Right, onto the details! Hopefully this video will cover it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4ad4pIJ1DI

Also, may I recommend the game's new Game Jolt Page...

http://gamejolt.com/games/spyro-project-fan-game/130936

If you want to download this latest demo ant tr it out for yourself, here's the link...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9-diU … sp=sharing

Enjoy

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Re: Spyro Project Prototype(s) (Fan Game)

Well done. You done really well with this project.

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Re: Spyro Project Prototype(s) (Fan Game)

Looks pretty neat! Could you release this for phone too?

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Re: Spyro Project Prototype(s) (Fan Game)

Sadly, I'm not quite sure about that

Firstly, I don't have any mobile export modules, and secondly, doing so would require publishing it legally to mobile app stores which of course would breach copyright law (which fan games naturally do just by existing anyway but bringing it to a public mobile market, whether it is free or not, would threaten the copyright holder more and/or bring it more unwanted publicity) .

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Just a vid of some exciting new developments...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNKZnqs … oz1v5qjsgc

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booyah

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A little test to see what this game would look like in 3D (or 2.5D)!

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9V3ibZ_iic

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O O F What's this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9elUnQ0Ac-g

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