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"Those Funny Funguloids!" -- v1.06 [+ Linux ver]

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:33 pm
by mh
Greetings! I'd like to finally announce our latest game: "Those Funny Funguloids!" :) I'm quoting the official blurb here:

Never before has collecting mushrooms been this mildly entertaining. At least not in outer space. It's more of a lifestyle than a game, really. Now with graphics and sound, too!

It's not completely ready yet, but very close to completion. We just need a couple of sound effects more, and some little adjustments to the code here and there. :P I'd estimate we can release it in a week or two. 8) I did the code and artwork, my friend did the game design and sound effects. My first Ogre game, btw. Thanks to all concerned, Ogre is awesome - this game wouldn't have been possible (for me) without Ogre! :)

In fact, just a moment ago I uploaded the website, so do check it out if you're curious! :) Here are a few hi-res screenshots from the game. There's more on the website. :) Click for a full size view.
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Thanks for your time! Comments are always welcome! :)

UPDATE: The game is finished:
http://funguloids.sourceforge.net

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:55 am
by Aladrin
-starts chanting- Download, download, download!

Screenies are nice. Looking forward to trying this!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:57 am
by mh
Aladrin wrote:-starts chanting- Download, download, download!

Screenies are nice. Looking forward to trying this!
:D Hehe, thanks! We'll try to get it done soon(ish)! :)

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:34 am
by cybereality
Wow. Nice screenshots. I can't wait to see the game in action.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:51 am
by celic
Nice screens!! :)

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:01 pm
by mh
Thank you! :) Hopefully you'll like the gameplay as well! ;)

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:57 pm
by sinbad
Looking good, looking forward to a hands-on :) I'm sure people will find the fact that it's open source useful too.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:37 pm
by mh
sinbad wrote:Looking good, looking forward to a hands-on :) I'm sure people will find the fact that it's open source useful too.
Thanks, and I hope so! :)

I doubled the amount of background pictures today; the game has two variations of each color now. Here's a sampler of the new blue level:
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UPDATE: The documentation is now (almost) written, as is the installer script. Basically what's missing is a couple of sound effects and some testing & tweaking. 8)

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:51 am
by yuriythebest
mushrooms in space? sure hope they are the special kind! Graphics look awsome, the texturing is very well done and overall the style is very elaborate. Can't wait to play.


EDIT: at the site-
User comments:

"Excellent gameplay! It's like I'm wearing nothing at all!"
ahahaha! you guys have a good sence of humor!

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:05 am
by mh
yuriythebest wrote:mushrooms in space? sure hope they are the special kind! Graphics look awsome, the texturing is very well done and overall the style is very elaborate. Can't wait to play.
They sure are, look at 'em glow! :D Hehe, thank you for your comments! Yep, I'm very pleased with the visuals of this game - I did my first properly UV mapped models here and painted the textures + normal maps too, which was very time consuming but turned out quite nicely. :) From the technical side the game is also my best so far, mostly thanks to Ogre.

ahahaha! you guys have a good sence of humor!
Thanks again. :D Hopefully nobody takes those comments too seriously.. ;)

Status update: It's 99.9% done. 8) With some luck we get it out this weekend. Stay tuned!

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:41 pm
by Aladrin
mh wrote: Status update: It's 99.9% done. 8) With some luck we get it out this weekend. Stay tuned!
Gah, SW2E or Funguloids... You're going to make me choose!? Well, maybe I can find time for both...

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:46 am
by mh
Status update:
The release is set for Sunday. Hopefully all goes well. :)

Whee, mushrooms!

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:52 pm
by Sslaxx
Hope they aren't like Mycon...

Re: Whee, mushrooms!

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:37 pm
by mh
Sslaxx wrote:Hope they aren't like Mycon...
Not at all, ours are quite harmless.. :)

UPDATE: The downloads are up! Get your own while it's hot! :D
http://funguloids.sourceforge.net

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:34 pm
by rUmbl3
Downloads available for Windows only at the moment.
Sounds like your going to support linux as well? :)
I'll have a look at the code .. maybe i can help ;)

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:43 pm
by mh
rUmbl3 wrote:Sounds like your going to support linux as well? :)
I'll have a look at the code .. maybe i can help ;)
Absolutely. :) Well, I cannot do them ports myself, so I'm hoping someone more experienced with Linux / MacOS X / etc. would contribute the builds.. :) All kind of help is welcome!

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:03 pm
by rUmbl3
Congrats ;) your app is pretty portable (at least it seems like).
I only got some problems with two HINSTANCE's but that shouldn't be a too big problem.

One thing i was missing is the ConvertUTF.h file that SimpleIni needs. Maybe you can add that file with the next source release.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:18 pm
by mh
rUmbl3 wrote:Congrats ;) your app is pretty portable (at least it seems like).
I only got some problems with two HINSTANCE's but that shouldn't be a too big problem.

One thing i was missing is the ConvertUTF.h file that SimpleIni needs. Maybe you can add that file with the next source release.
Yeah, I tried to make it portable. Seems I missed the HINSTANCEs though.. :)

Strange thing about that ConvertUTF.h. I don't have such file and it builds fine. I'm not using Unicode either since I have SimpleIni to store only basic strings, no special chars etc. which would need UTF.. :? You can however get the ConvertUTF stuff from SimpleIni site, if you need them.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:03 pm
by yuriythebest
yay downloading!

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:27 pm
by yuriythebest
bravo dude! this is probably the prettiest & most addictive finished game made in ogre. Whatever you were trying to accomplish you succeeded, cheers!

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:48 pm
by mh
yuriythebest wrote:bravo dude! this is probably the prettiest & most addictive finished game made in ogre. Whatever you were trying to accomplish you succeeded, cheers!
Hey, thanks a lot! :D Good to hear you enjoyed the game! :) Although surely there are other prettier Ogre games.. ;)

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:16 pm
by jacmoe
Groovie game! :D

Just wished you had three lives .. :(
Well, well .. :P

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:28 pm
by Aladrin
That's a great game!

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:41 pm
by rUmbl3
Okay, it was only a minor problem. You just need to move one of your own includes in front of the #if OGRE_PLATFORM == ... then its working.
Really cool game you made there. Congrats.

If someone wants to have the makefile or binary just tell me.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:06 pm
by mh
Thank you for the feedback! :)
jacmoe wrote:Just wished you had three lives .. :(
Well, well .. :P
Hehe, well.. Practise is the key! ;)

rUmbl3 wrote:Okay, it was only a minor problem. You just need to move one of your own includes in front of the #if OGRE_PLATFORM == ... then its working.
Cool, you got it up and running? Would you mind elaborating what needs to be changed? #Includes in which file? :)