GRIND : a Doom-like, first person shooter for a500!

[GWhizz]

cool release?

[eXeler0]

Originally Posted by GWhizz

cool release?

Probably late 2024 / early 2025

[Tsak]

News time!

A new coder has now joined the team and working on dynamic assets loading (which is a critical part of the engine currently missing). I am still looking for additional help on other stuff (most importantly music support) so anyone interested can take a look in this thread here : https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=116330

Also after an intense month of hard work (and much preparation before), the new Chaingun design is finally ready!



This one (especially the rotation frames) was extra difficult as these designs are done manually and from scratch with pixel art, without using 3d models, prerendered frames or other references.

[amifan]

Looks fantastic, thanks for the update! Good luck with the rest of the work.

[buzzybee]

Originally Posted by Tsak

News time!

A new coder has now joined the team and working on dynamic assets loading (which is a critical part of the engine currently missing). I am still looking for additional help on other stuff (most importantly music support) so anyone interested can take a look in this thread here : https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=116330

This one (especially the rotation frames) was extra difficult as these designs are done manually and from scratch with pixel art, without using 3d models, prerendered frames or other references.

Managing a team for such an ambitious project is no small feat. Therefore, congrats on the new team member. May the loading code always work bug-free and as intended.

Pixel art chaingun must have taken many hours and countless iterations until you got it right. Looks fantastic!

[nezumi]

Originally Posted by Tsak

as these designs are done manually and from scratch with pixel art, without using 3d models, prerendered frames or other references.

And it is definitely worth it as it looks absolutely gorgeous!

[grond]

The chaingun looks superb! I love the timing on the spin-down.

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by grond

The chaingun looks superb! I love the timing on the spin-down.

It's not often that I think vector weapons in TKG were a mistake, but artwork like this does make me wish the option existed.

[DisasterIncarna]

looking good....as always.

[vroom6sri]

I'm really looking forward to playing this! It already looks stunning and so damn professional! Truly great work being done here.

[Predseda]

Le Magnifique Gattling!!

[AlphaAmiga]

That chaingun looks amazing!

[malko]

A big KUDOS.
The animation and the details are simply so good that only a "whaou" came to mouth

[Adropac2]

really looking forward to playing this one day

[Tsak]

@everyone Thanks a lot guys!
If you like this I think you'll love the complete thing in action, along with its new sounds (getting very positive feedback about that as well)!

Originally Posted by buzzybee

Managing a team for such an ambitious project is no small feat. Therefore, congrats on the new team member. May the loading code always work bug-free and as intended.

Thanks mate
Well, honestly I'm not doing anything exceptional in regards to managing the team, except being always available and replying fast to whatever everyone needs. Other than that I am mostly focused on my stuff. Progress with the code also happens rather slowly, so there is not a whole lot of activity that requires constant attention anyhow.

Probably once I am done for good with the pressing issue of replacing the weapons I will focus on getting us better organized (with the help of the team of course).

Originally Posted by buzzybee

Pixel art chaingun must have taken many hours and countless iterations until you got it right.

Yup it sure did!
The Chaingun proved to be the most difficult weapon so far. I sincerely thought that crown would belong to the Shotgun but no, the Chaingun definitely was on a completely different difficulty level. There was a time I was thinking to compromise with a much more simple design. But -oh boy- I'm just glad I didn't eventually!

Originally Posted by Karlos

It's not often that I think vector weapons in TKG were a mistake, but artwork like this does make me wish the option existed.

Hah! Yup I know what you mean. Good sprites would also work fine with this game. I guess their choice to go with vector weapons was more of a nod to Quake than anything else. Decent enough though they still don't compare well with weapons from Genetic Species f.e. (which are probably the best in the entire Amiga library).

Speaking of which I really cannot stress enough how massively problematic the weapons issue has been with all Amiga fps games traditionally. Most either lacked in variety or just didn't have good enough designs (or did not include weapon sprites at all)! It baffles me really how much this absolutely crucial pillar of fps gunplay was neglected back then. Which is why I'm taking my time to get this right.

[samo79]

That chaingun is superb!

[roondar]

Grind has a great aesthetic and the new chain gun definitely fits brilliantly in this, great stuff

[Gzegzolka]

That animation looks hot

[Tigerskunk]

Amazing stuff as always, Tsak.

This game is shaping up to be great.

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by Tsak

Hah! Yup I know what you mean. Good sprites would also work fine with this game. I guess their choice to go with vector weapons was more of a nod to Quake than anything else. Decent enough though they still don't compare well with weapons from Genetic Species f.e. (which are probably the best in the entire Amiga library).

I think the vector models probably saved on memory too, since each frame is a relatively small amount of data. I does make me wonder what it could have looked like using the lightsourced bitmap rendering.