Comments on: Swarm Racer 3000 at Tokyo Game Show

By: Will

Will — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:10:25 +0000

I am currently studying abroad this semester in Japan and I was able to be a volunteer during business day. (I was the guy with the ponytail and beard serving drinks.)
I was fortunate enough to have some free time and was able to watch your presentation. I thought the gameplay was really creative! I’m an aspiring game programmer, and I feel I gained a lot from watching the presentations, especially yours.
I can’t wait to play Swarm Racer 3000 someday!

By: GBGames

GBGames — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:07:14 +0000

Congratulations!

By: lexaloffle

lexaloffle — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:20:18 +0000

Aw, shucks. Thanks everyone.

The 3d dotted background are just regular projected dots with a 90 degree fov. I tried all kinds of things for the background, but went back to exactly the same code I used in the LD version. LD-power. Algorithm: set dots to z = z_max, clamp wall-adjacent dots to 0 and then blur/smooth the z values.

The foreground blocks are 3d, rendered in a 2 channel colour space (intensity and hue) and converted to rgb each frame. So it’s possible to alter just the hue channel for a cellophane-like effect, or just the intensity channel for things like bloom, sparkles and lighting.

By: HybridMind

HybridMind — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:43:38 +0000

@Arowx: I was wondering the same thing. I love the style of the (3d?) dotted backgrounds. Its almost fish-eye lens in the depth of field behind the play space. Really unique looking.

By: Arowx

Arowx — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:19:43 +0000

Cool looks great, is that a 3d engine in 2d or just good use of parrallax scrolling?

By: Ariel Yust

Ariel Yust — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:39:04 +0000

Trully I think it looks great good job =] comeon let the 15LD start allready =D

By: Edge

Edge — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:28:43 +0000

That looks really sweet. I mean gameplay-wise and the stylized graphics / audio. Watching the video makes me wanna play it.

Congrats Lexaloffle.

By: Codexus

Codexus — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:22:32 +0000

Congrats, Lexaloffle! That’s really awesome!

By: Kimau

Kimau — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:51:54 +0000

Saw this on Gamasutra. AWESOME news.
That Swarm LD was the first LD I took part in. It was an awesome theme, and from it came one of my favourite entries.

Swarm Racer & Sky Full of Stars.
Both brilliant

By: HybridMind

HybridMind — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:12:24 +0000

Awesome, this looks like a really fun game… I wanna play!

By: mrfun

mrfun — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:51:12 +0000

Woot!