Game Development

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2013, March 14 - 23:33

nmcarvalho

Game Development

Greetings,

I am starting the development of an action game using VRML/X3D and I need some help and advices. If anyone is doing something similiar work, or have any good tutorials to point me to, I would appreciate it very much.

About the game(help/tips are also welcome):

Game view: for the game view I would like the player to be able to switch from a first person to a 3rd person view.

Gathering/Crafting System: I would also want the game to have a crafting system, so the player can gather materials deployed in a random place in the world and use those materials to create new and more powerfull weapons, clothes and armour.

UI: Also I would like to know how can I create the UI for the game, mainly the health bars, some other bar for special attacks, some clickable buttons for other special attacks, a mini-map, and a compass, and when we select a enemy or mouse over it, i would like it to display some info about the enemy, being the health it have, or other information about it.

The player will have an inventory for the loot it gathers from killing other enemies, or materials from gathering, and some equipment slots to equip new items, beeing them from armor, shields, weapons, and so on to powerups.

Class System: I would as well to implement a RPG system, with classes for the player to develop his char.

Game Editor: The ideia is also to develop a game editor, so i can use it to place the assets(scripts,objects,music,etc), resize them, and create the levels by dragging them from a asset list to the scene. I woul also like the editor to allow the level designer to assign scripts to the NPC's so the NPC would give the player his missions, or quests, or assigning to some NPC the the ability to run shops, others to move from a place to another, AI, and so on.

Thanks in advance,

Nuno Carvalho

2013, March 15 - 16:10

vcard

VRML/X3D games basics

Hi Nuno,

Congrats for this ambitious and promising project

To start, here are 2 links with the basics of vrml gaming:

-Game Programming in VRML - a very basic text but with code and examples, nice and educational.

The basic demo page is now off but still available on Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020713105806/http://www.pd.org/~thatguy/games/mediainvaders3D/Nworld01demo3.wrl

- The text "Building Games in VRML" and the indispensable vrml proto library where you will find answers to some of your questions:
http://accad.osu.edu/~pgerstma/protolib/

Most of these protos work well in bs contact. A few generate errors due in most cases to minor syntax issues/differences (they where tested on cortona plugin).

It is time that someone organizes a convenient proto library for game development. Starting with this library and updating it with other vrml/x3d protos available in the net.

Good work!

vcard

2013, March 15 - 21:39

(Reply to #2) #3

nmcarvalho

Good evening vcard,

Thank you very much for your support and for the links, I will use them as a starting point to my game development.

Best regards,

Nuno Carvalho

2013, March 19 - 11:59

(Reply to #3) #4

vcard

The Kenkenen VRML games:

In the same "Arcade" line but with more more sophistication, the Kenkenen VRML games:

http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~kekenken/main/3d/game/game.htm

Enjoy,

vcard

2013, March 23 - 17:38

(Reply to #4) #5

vcard

Hi,

Aliens Amuck 3D Invaders Star5ield Gunner

A page with several vrml games by Stephen Guynup: http://www.pd.org/~thatguy/content_Virt03.html

Enjoy,

vcard

2013, March 17 - 19:51

vcard

Hi Nuno,

A game that shows, among other interesting aspects, how to collect/count items on the ground and displays a scores interface (HUD).

World: Crazy hydro

Crazy Hydro

http://antoine.pasquay.free.fr/

Document: Blaxxun 3d authoring manual

http://outside.revemonde.net/csadmin/doc/3dauthoring.pdf

Has a few years but still is the essential manual for blaxxun/bitmanagement technologies. Bitmanagement has not released a free update yet (only a paid SDK)

Good work!

vcard

2013, March 20 - 16:35

babelx3d

Hi,

A few interesting games and other resources on smeenk site:

http://www.smeenk.com/

Drangonstone is one to look at:

http://www.smeenk.com/vrml/dragonstone/dragonstone.wrl

Enjoy,

vcard

2013, March 20 - 19:08

nmcarvalho

Hi,

Thank you so much for those interesting examples, with so many good stuff to learn from.

I'm going to check Dragonstone as soon I'm near my PC, since I can't see wrl files on my IPad.

BTW, any chance anyone can point me to a good vrml viewer for IPad and IPhone.

Once again thanks for this great info!

2013, March 20 - 23:52

(Reply to #8) #9

babelx3d

Have you tried bs contact for

Have you tried bs contact for ios? Pick it from the menu:

http://www.bitmanagement.de/en/download

vcard

2013, March 23 - 08:36

(Reply to #9) #10

nmcarvalho

Hi,

tried to download bs contact for ios a while agor, but i got this mail from them:

Dear Nuno,

thank you for downloading the trial version of BS Contact iOS.

In case you need additional information - technical or commercial - please contact us and feel free to specify your requirements.
Our demo video shows examples of customer use cases (http://www.bitmanagement.de/download/media/final_master_720_400.wmv).
The trial version is for testing of the software. For use of the software for more than testing and for licensing, please contact sales@bitmanagement.com or go to our Online Shop at http://www.bitmanagement.de/en/shop .

Best Regards

Bitmanagement Software

but i didnt got the app. Yesterday I tried again and i noticed this message, after I clicked download:

Updates to the software are offered from time to time in the Download Center.

Available downloads

For testing of the BS Contact iOS version please send us your UUID of your iOS device via email. Hier is an external describtion to retrieve your UUID

Is this safe?

Thanks,

Nuno

2013, March 23 - 09:39

#11

vcard

"Is this safe?"

"Is this safe?"
I don't have an IOS device but bitmanagement is a serious company, a partner of the Web3D consortium wich is a W3C organism . You can email them asking about it.

vcard

2013, March 23 - 09:53

(Reply to #11) #12

nmcarvalho

:) I will send them an email.

The apps usually are downloaded via Apple Store, and this way is new for me.

2013, March 26 - 17:45

#13

vcard

Guns and Shooters

A simple shooter to understand the basic mechanism:

http://x-3-x.net/vrml/archive/cache/www.wildpeaks.com/vrml/no_cache/demo_shooter.wrl

A sophisticated game using shooters, in the FPS style

http://l-goulois.pagesperso-orange.fr/sommaire/concours_tdt3d/shoot/intro_shoot.html

Enjoy,

vcard

2013, April 22 - 12:54

#14

vcard

State of the art Massive Multiplayer X3D Game

It is the Leelh

leelh

url: http://www.leelh.com/

An image with some interface elements:

leelh interface

2013, May 8 - 17:35

#15

nmcarvalho

Greetings.

This post is to let you know about the progress of my game development.

I´ve finished the HUD development, and as you can see from the screenshots, the HUD art is not very fancy, but that will be tweeked at the end.

All the windows can be customized with other objects (other than the ugly placeholder rectangles), size, text, text size, anmd so on.

Some of the HUD windows (mostly buttons) can be hovered, and pressed and they will be highlited. In the future they will perform the corresponding action, but for now they just to the button animation and nothing more.

This HUD can be applied to any wrl file, so im using it over some old wrl file that i created not long ago.

Best wishes,

Nuno Carvalho HUD ScreenShot

2013, May 13 - 07:49

(Reply to #15) #16

artur

Pretty cool work! And i love

Pretty cool work! And i love the house. I suspect it looks wonderful textured :)

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