My Lba 1 remake

[Angelus]

Sure why not I don't mind drinking good coffee :] But of course first I would need to visit Dublin or you Montreal :P

Yeah for me coffee right now mean this few minutes of break from work but at the same time mobilization to work.

[Angelus]

Another post: http://coffemonsters.blogspot.ca/201...s-stories.html

[Angelus]

Well and another post : http://coffemonsters.blogspot.ca/201...ch-time-1.html.
This time more technical one. But there to make it less boring I put there some
"unique" pictures like the one you see in this post.

[Proxx]

Really nice drawings! Do you already have a release plan for your remake? I'd love to test your game and see it live.

[Angelus]

Sadly not. Creation of game is very hard task. In my case I try also to create technology behind it. So I have at least twice as much hard task.

Right now I slowly moving in direction of finishing but it's a little bit to early to talk about any specific date.

[Proxx]

I agree. What development platform/environment do you use? I use Visual Studio for my project and in combination with Wix Toolset it's quite straightforward to build and publish.
It's the technology we also use in my company to release installers and updaters for our software. I can highly recommend it.

[Angelus]

Whole project is written in C++, graphic library is OpenGL, audio OpenAL and for UI in tools I use QT. My development tool are :

• On Windows Visual Studio
• On Linux Clang compiler and VIM editor + plugins to it.

All my projects/makes are right now generated from configuration file (something like CMake). So changes on one platform affecting other. I doing that mostly
because right now I have ~28 projects and changing configuration for each of it separately would be pain.

I use also Jenkins for continuous builds. Right now it's just compilation so I don't have final package building process. I have it in plans but first I need
to figure out flow of this process and do some research. I will check then Wix, previously for Pirate's crystals I were using Inno Setup.

[Angelus]

There is new short but I think important post (http://coffemonsters.blogspot.ca/201...g-special.html). Have a nice reading.

[SpaceGuitarist]

Just saw this thread and some of the screenshots. Looks top-notch. Keep up.


PS: lovin' the doodles in your blog with literal-comical analogies.

[lba07]

This is some top notch stuff, really appreciate what you're doing!

[Angelus]

If you like Rabbibunnie anatomy you will probably like also new post about Spheros anatomy

Have a fun reading and watching what you can find there

[Angelus]

So this day came when I decided to make contest for LBA remake :] more details:

http://coffemonsters.blogspot.co.uk/...ter-break.html

Maybe some of you will be interested :]

[Darkflame]

I'm going to assume I cant just post a link to the LBA Swede I made many many years ago?

[Angelus]

Hehe, You can try :P everything depend what in the end will be the best.

[DCLeadboot]

Heh, a remake, eh?
I know I'd be interested to see how that comes out.
LBA1's a great game, but if the visuals and sound gained an HD upgrade, as well as possible improved voice-acting... it could become brilliant!

What little I've seen so far seems to head in the right direction.

One concern I always had with the first game and the interior scenes of the second, though. The isometric viewpoint meant I'd be constantly missing my mark with the magic ball leaving me at the mercy of the clones while I had to wait for its bounce to peter out and return to me. It was the one constant annoyance I'd have - hence I'd favour using the sword, once I had it.
Maybe the remake could add something to remedy that? Say, a trajectory-guide...

[Angelus]

Yeah I will probably add trajectory of ball like in the android re-release with option to disable its visualization for people who still want have fell of old game.

My goal is to improve quality of graphics that I presented in all movies. But well first I want to release small pre-alpha demo with current graphics containing only prison level. I want to test few things thanks to it and check how it will behave on different machines.

With voice-acting I will need to figure out this somehow because I'm not the best in that :/

[DCLeadboot]

Would there be a PC port of some sort too?
(Sorry if that's been asked before - I only recently joined)

[Angelus]

Yep there will be PC version (Win/Linux). The re-release of LBA1 I talking about was done to Android/iOS by DotEmu (Commercial). Remake that I doing is just first island of original game and this will be released for free.

(No problems if you have any concerns or want to know something just ask I'm happy to answer them)

[DCLeadboot]

Thanks!
No problem, of course. Just PC is more convenient for me. I do have a Smartphone these days, but it's only a small thing and it struggles and labours to even play Angry Birds smoothly.

[leoboe]

Originally Posted by Angelus

With voice-acting I will need to figure out this somehow because I'm not the best in that :/

If You need help with that leave me a message, I have studio-Equipment and could make some voicings (if you don't mind a slight german accent).

[DCLeadboot]

Well, I'm sure those of us who have microphones would like to help out there...
I've done voices in the past myself for friends on deviantART.

YouTube

[Darkflame]

You know, I only just now realized hes the professor from Sliders. [/slow]

[Angelus]

Hi, yep when I will get to point when I will need voice acting (I need to rewrite some dialog) I will contact you guys for sure This will help me really a lot.

[Angelus]

Well a lot of content this weekend but well :] Anatomy of Little Big Adventure Part 3:

http://coffemonsters.blogspot.co.uk/...ba-part-3.html

[Angelus]

This week the last of races:
http://coffemonsters.blogspot.co.uk/...ba-part-4.html