Igneous (student game)

[SpuD]

Igneous has been accepted into the IGF Student Showcase!

Watch the latest trailer here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nICd6W9d0i4)
Download for free here (http://www.igneousgame.com/)

Thanks for playing and giving us feedback everyone!

[Wrestler#1]

HOLY! The physics and grafics look just AWESOME for a student team! I think the gameplay will be kinda boring but everything else looks just incredibly well done!

[UberGimp]

Holy buttsex! It looks amazing!

[SpuD]

HOLY! The physics and grafics look just AWESOME for a student team! I think the gameplay will be kinda boring but everything else looks just incredibly well done!

Yeah gameplay ideas are really our main focus at the moment. Right now it's just kill blobs and advance. We're looking to branch out and make new levels that incorporate more physics.

[Cries]

It is very cool. I hope this won't create uber-lags...

[AquaGeneral]

Looks excellent SpuD. I am a little concerned aswell about the longetivity of the game but still it looks like heaps of fun.

[starsky]

Holy buttsex! It looks amazing!
Thats disgusting, and immature. But the game looks interesting.

[UberGimp]

Thats disgusting, and immature. But the game looks interesting.

Don't call me immature. Im simply excited about this game, and this is the way i express myself. Don't come calling that disguisting, like you never in your life said sh*t f*ck or even m*th*rf*ck*r.
You are buttsex.

[dawesy121]

Wow! That is one of the best looking DigiPen games Ive seen so far. Definatly looks like its gonna be awesome!

[Kirby]

Other than the immature flaming here, the game looks like its going to be pretty damn good.

[SpuD]

So the game has changed quite a bit since I posted the first video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx5k4a3imrU

We thought the path we were taking the game wasn't going to be the best it could be, so we scrapped the combat entirely, and the game is now.

Expect an early downloadable version in the summer, and the full version in November!

[BiT]

WTF is up with the quality?!
C'mon people, we're in 2009.

[BlackNecro]

Mhh just a suggestion scrap the new path and go back to the old one - this looks boring like hell

[Kirby]

I think the escape game looks pretty cool, anyway, its too late to go back now.

[UberGimp]

This looks fucking awesome!!
Damn! Reminds me of the best levels from Crash Bandicoot. :D

[geel9]

Did anyone think, "April fools!"?

[Nintendo-Guy]

Did anyone think, "April fools!"?

You really think they made a whole new concept and gameplay and stuff and recorded it just for april fools?

[SpuD]

Mhh just a suggestion scrap the new path and go back to the old one - this looks boring like hell

Unfortunately, I can't release builds right now. But if you were to play both versions, I think you'd change your opinion. Everyone that played our game before thought it was pretty cool, but didn't have much desire to continue playing more than a single run through. However, the new direction has had people sitting over a half hour trying to beat this level, and enjoying it (the video makes it look REALLY easy, but it's actually extremely hard).

[TheMoose]

I think this looks damn fine. Only things I'm worried about: Levels being repetitive, seems like if you were to have the same kind of 'walkway breaking underneath you' kind of thing, it would eventually get really annoying. I'm also worried that having the same lava theme for a long time could get tiring.

Besides those points, which I'm sure you have something planned for anyways, the game looks incredible.

[Manic790]

Looks awesome, The physics are amazing, graphics are Nice. The actual gameplay doesn't look like something I, personally, would enjoy, but I will give it a go.
In the second video is it just me or does that music sound like the music from Team Fortress 2 called The Art of War?

PS, When exactly is Summer for you? I live in South Africa and our summer is just about to end.

[UberGimp]

Looks awesome, The physics are amazing, graphics are Nice. The actual gameplay doesn't look like something I, personally, would enjoy, but I will give it a go.
In the second video is it just me or does that music sound like the music from Team Fortress 2 called The Art of War?

PS, When exactly is Summer for you? I live in South Africa and our summer is just about to end.

Here in Denmark we're in the second month of spring (:

[Colescheffler]

Here in Denmark we're in the second month of spring (:
Spring began on March 21st here in the US, can't wait until summer though. I won't be locked up on my computer all the time!
I also think this is very good for a student game, I look forward to playing it.

[GreyMario]

Ruined the game.

[geel9]

I agree. The lack of combat ruined it.

[Drü-B]

Ruined the game.

Nah, It looks far more polished now, and is probably a lot more fun.
Also, why must everyone make such rash remarks about almost every game here?
Are we all really that picky?

[SpuD]

new video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNWJKZUHFak&feature=channel_page

this build will be available for download soon

[Wrestler#1]

Woha, that looks good! But I hope there will be some checkpoints :D

[UberGimp]

This looks so promosing!
I love the boulder comming from behind at 4:06, smashing the floor beneath it.

What are the required specs for this? (:

[Nintendo-Guy]

I really doubt my laptop will be able to run this :(

[monkeyboy1245]

I seriously hope the people that said the game is ruined without combat, were kidding.
When I first saw this, it looked good, and the physics were nice, but that was about it.
The gameplay just looked extremely dull and uninteresting.

Someone posted this on Facepunch, so I figured I might take a look at it again, even though I had no interest in the first place, I was a tad curious, now.

I'm very glad I did.
This looks much much much more fun than the original Alpha build.

Now I'm actually looking foward to it, and I'll be following this closely.

Good work.


edit: And just to clear things up, yes, the gameplay before was obviously more complex, but it just seemed to be missing something.
Maybe it was the adrenaline rush, and speediness of the beta.
I'm not sure, I just know I like the simple Beta gameplay much more than the Alpha.

[Nintendo-Guy]

I seriously hope the people that said the game is ruined without combat, were kidding.
When I first saw this, it looked good, and the physics were nice, but that was about it.
The gameplay just looked extremely dull and uninteresting.

Someone posted this on Facepunch, so I figured I might take a look at it again, even though I had no interest in the first place, I was a tad curious, now.

I'm very glad I did.
This looks much much much more fun than the original Alpha build.

Now I'm actually looking foward to it, and I'll be following this closely.

Good work.


edit: And just to clear things up, yes, the gameplay before was obviously more complex, but it just seemed to be missing something.
Maybe it was the adrenaline rush, and speediness of the beta.
I'm not sure, I just know I like the simple Beta gameplay much more than the Alpha.

I posted it on facepunch. Williamsuger is my alt.

[ShnitzelKiller]

Wow, that game looks amazingly fun! But the sound you make when you jump is kind of anti-climatic. "yough! Yough!"

[SpuD]

What are the required specs for this? (:

We haven't really tested it on a lot of machines, but it runs pretty well on my 3 year old laptop (T2600, 2gb Ram, 7900 GS Go).

Here's the DL: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W85R2KIJ

Couple comments:

You can press 1, 2, 3, 4 to change levels. 1 and 2 are the ones shown in the video, 3 is a basic platforming level, 4 is a scrapped lava river level that isn't functional.

The game is much more enjoyable on an Xbox360 controller, so if you have one of those to connect to you computer, please do it =D.

Pressing new game from the in game menu will loop your sound, a bug that didn't get spotted before the deadline, but that's what happens when you're crunching at 5am the night before =P.

And if the game doesn't run on your comp, I'm sorry. We haven't put the time into testing it on multiple machines yet, something we'll be doing before next November.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it =D

[UberGimp]

Fuck Me Sideways Yes!!!

EDIT: That was truly awesome! The standards of the levels are very different though. Level 1 and 2 very superior (mostly level 2) while level 3 was very bland, and boring tbh. Love the soundtrack! Love the intensity! Need more identification with the character and i need more epic.!

This was no disappointment at all! Feels good to finally try the game (:
Good work!

[SpuD]

Level 3 was only made to test platforming controls =D. 1 and 2 are the official levels, 3 and 4 are just there for shits

And yeah we'll be working with some artists over the summer to make some real assets (That's all programmer art in the game), so our character will have a lot more effort put into him.

[Fox-Fool]

Pretty fun.
It actually looks pretty good.
I have to agree though.
Level 2 is the best.

[samysam]

can't get working all i get is black screen after logos...

[Nintendo-Guy]

I can't even launch the game. I get an error saying i should reinstall the game. I've done it twice already.

[SpuD]

=( what are your specs/operating system etc?

[ShnitzelKiller]

What other possible operating system could he have? It's a windows-only game, after all.

[SpuD]

xp, vista, 7, there are a variety of windows in case you didn't know

[Shanethe13]

The game ran flawlessly on 64 Bit Vista, and that's saying a lot, Overall, the game was great, if unforgiving at times. Level two was awesome, however in both the first and the second, one mistake usually meant you were starting over from the beginning of the level; it would be nice to see a checkpoint system (Is there already? I didn't die too often in the first level, but I didn't notice any checkpoints in the second)

[TheMoose]

http://content.screencast.com/users/TheMoose/folders/Jing/media/99c3596e-ec04-4638-a874-101e635fddde/2009-04-19_1356.png

:(

I get this error whenever I try to run the game. Sucks.

[DarkJee]

I fucking love the level 2

Graphics are so delicious :)

[ShnitzelKiller]

http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt222/ShnitzelKiller/Mybaby.png

:(

I get this error whenever I try to run the game. Sucks.

I guess you have to get that Microsoft C++ redistributable package thingy or whatever.

[SpuD]

yeah that might be it, we don't check for / install anything else during installation (that will come in the next few months).

[BigNerfGun]

Looks BA, Love the 3-D, go go power of youth

[ShnitzelKiller]

Damn, the second level is apparantly more fun, but I can't get past the stupid running up in a spiral part :(.. Can't there be a level select?

[monkeyboy1245]

Damn, the second level is apparantly more fun, but I can't get past the stupid running up in a spiral part :(.. Can't there be a level select?

You just press "2" on your keyboard..
Silly c:

[MACINTOSH USER]

Downloading right now, 12 minutes till playing.
FRIIIIIIICK! "This application has failed to start because the application configuration in incorrect. Reinstalling the Application may fix this problem" and I've installed it twice, Anyone have a fix?

[NinjaNinja7]

hehehehehHEEHEHEHEHEHEEHEHEHEH YAY!!!!!!!!!! SO EXCITED hope it works...:D
EDIT: man, it's amazing. it is pretty slow on my computer though T-T ahh well, great work!!!!!! excellent graphics + excellent physics + excellent intensity = PWNT

[SpuD]

Downloading right now, 12 minutes till playing.
FRIIIIIIICK! "This application has failed to start because the application configuration in incorrect. Reinstalling the Application may fix this problem" and I've installed it twice, Anyone have a fix?

try this:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en

[MACINTOSH USER]

Yay!! I got a different error now!
"This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information."

[lord_of_sausage]

The game looks extreemely awesome =)

How long have you been working on it?

downloading....

[SpuD]

Hey all, just thought I'd drop in and tell you PAX-bound people to come check out the DigiPen booth in the Freeplay area and playtest the latest build of Igneous for us ;).

We've got 2 months of work left on the game and are currently in the polishing stage, but we're always looking for more input on the game.

Latest video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3IiNRyFQxU&feature=channel_page), it's a bit old and bad framerate, but it demonstrates where we're at.

Come check out the game, maybe even get a super sweet Igneous button! (lol)

[Nintendo-Guy]

Looks great, just a question tho. Is there some kind of story for this game?

[SpuD]

lol the "story" is that you're a Tiki Totem trying to escape from a raging volcano, that's about it.

[UberGimp]

lol the "story" is that you're a Tiki Totem trying to escape from a raging volcano, that's about it.

Wow..
Intense :D

[ShnitzelKiller]

What? What do you mean by digipen booth?? This thread is the first thing that pops up when I search that! Where is the download for this new beta??

[SpuD]

What do you mean by digipen booth??

I mean the booth that DigiPen will have set up at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle this weekend.

Where is the download for this new beta??

2 months and the game will be complete and downloadable.

[Connor]

Will it work on Mac computers?

[SpuD]

Okay so I lied when I said you'd have to wait until November for the latest build. I have a build, figured why not put it out there ;)

New Trailier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZYh-MStp8)
New Build (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y3T7QTW5)

Will it work on Mac computers?

No sorry =(

[ShnitzelKiller]

Will it work on Mac computers?

Well, what did you expect...

[kuhfi]

igneous.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.

I wantz play? Any idea on how to fix that?

I already reinstalled it and I have the C++ Redistributable

[UberGimp]

I'd always thought it would be cool if it was something living. Rather than a totem.

Like an Armadillo?

You could call it Armadillo Run?? :D

[Iluza]

I've also encountered a problem, it's the same as kuhfi's. What could be wrong? :(

[SpuD]

If you guys are using ATI cards, that's most likely it. We don't have any ATI cards to test on at school, just nVidia. It's something we're going to have to take care of in the next two months, but right now there's nothing I can do, sorry.

I'd always thought it would be cool if it was something living. Rather than a totem.

Like an Armadillo?

You could call it Armadillo Run??

Lol yeah we thought about having the player be something organic, but since we don't have any real artists, we needed to go with something easy to make, and a cube is pretty damn easy =P

[b0xman]

looks like a classier sonic the hedgehog (you even made him blue...kinda)

downloading now..

[geel9]

SpuD, you lie!

[kuhfi]

Hey SpuD, I have a nVidia Geforce 8600 GT, I'm using WinXP, 4800+ 64x AMD Athlon CPU, 2 GB Ram. Hope you can help me :/

[jaybud4]

Quick question: Why in the world are you using XInput, thus limiting yourself to the actually-very-much-a-minority group of PC gamers with 360 game
pads, when your game makes no use of the only real advantages it has over DirectInput?
The sheer number of players you could get (I'm thinking double, maybe triple) far outweighs the (small) amount of work needed to use DI.
As I understand it (crashes on the only computer I've tested on thus far), the game works with keyboard/mouse, but really, this is the kind of game that begs for a gamepad.
When that is the case, limiting yourself to just one type of gamepad amid the hundreds is a deadly thing.

[SpuD]

Quick question: Why in the world are you using XInput, thus limiting yourself to the actually-very-much-a-minority group of PC gamers with 360 game
pads, when your game makes no use of the only real advantages it has over DirectInput?
The sheer number of players you could get (I'm thinking double, maybe triple) far outweighs the (small) amount of work needed to use DI.
As I understand it (crashes on the only computer I've tested on thus far), the game works with keyboard/mouse, but really, this is the kind of game that begs for a gamepad.
When that is the case, limiting yourself to just one type of gamepad amid the hundreds is a deadly thing.

Some reasons why we only support 360 controller:
- I only own a 360 controller.
- My team only owns 360 controllers.
- The school only owns 360 controllers.
- I don't know anyone who has a gamepad other than a 360 controller.
- The game we started developing wasn't going to support any gamepads, but as the game evolved I decided to add it. At the time I was already using xInput, and opted to build upon my current input engine rather than build a new one for all gamepads (I honestly didn't even think about other types of pads).

I'll do some research for other pads, but the reality is that even if I do decide to support more, I don't have any way of testing without buying some. I've also got a lot of other things to do like making sure the game works on all machines (something you've already ran into as well), content tweaks and polish, and re-factoring the input system is not very high priority.

Basically, I don't have the time or access to remake the input system, but I will still think about it.

[apina]

Stupid game! It wont work:(

[jaybud4]

Okay, I can understand where you're coming from with the fact that you only have 360 controllers.
But XInput and 360 controller are not mutually exclusive.
With a few exceptions, none of which would probably have any impact on this anyway, 360 support on DirectInput == XInput.
Walaber had a similar issue when developing Gymnast, he opened the DirectInput mappings in a text file for the users to make it work with their controller themselves.

On a different note, Megaupload is the crappiest downloading system I've ever seen.
The only things I've done with it in the past month is the 114MB installer on my laptop, but now it's trying to tell me I downloaded 350MB in the past hour.
On top of that, after waiting for that to change, it's not even downloading the installer on my desktop at all.
Gah.

[Nate The Great]

it doesnt work here on vista 32 bit :( just opens a window and says Igneous.exe has stopped working

[jaybud4]

Now that I got it to download.. Works flawlessly for me, also on 32bit Vista.

[zalo]

SpuD you should be proud. This game is absolutely amazing in every aspect.

If there were two things I could do to make it infinitesimally better, it would be to mix up the jumping sound, and make the part where the ground keeps falling away a little easier.

[Take-Out_Ninja]

Just watched the video...

The most orgasmic thing I've ever seen.

[SpuD]

Everyone that cannot run the game, sorry about that. For the last month and a half we've been taking a break, 12 months of hard work for no pay kind of drains a person (also with 4-5 other classes), but once we start school again this next week, we're back in to high gear and getting everything ironed out. Over the next two months we're doing heavy compatibility testing to make sure that these things don't happen again, but as of right now I can't help you.

Aside from that, thanks a lot for all the support over the development cycle and I'm glad that those of you that can play it have enjoyed it.

If there were two things I could do to make it infinitesimally better, it would be to mix up the jumping sound, and make the part where the ground keeps falling away a little easier.

Jump sound: very easy to change and we most likely will. We just have to talk about what we want it to sound like, but for the most part it should be a little more subtle and less annoying ;)

Bridge level difficulty: I'm definitely going to tone this down on the normal difficulty, while keeping "Impossible Mode" insanely hard. Yesterday we had a bunch of people attempting this level on impossible mode at PAX, and I think 3 people beat it, but it took them quite a while (one of them played for over an hour on the same level).

[coolmzn222]

Everyone that cannot run the game, sorry about that. For the last month and a half we've been taking a break, 12 months of hard work for no pay kind of drains a person (also with 4-5 other classes), but once we start school again this next week, we're back in to high gear and getting everything ironed out. Over the next two months we're doing heavy compatibility testing to make sure that these things don't happen again, but as of right now I can't help you.

Aside from that, thanks a lot for all the support over the development cycle and I'm glad that those of you that can play it have enjoyed it.



Jump sound: very easy to change and we most likely will. We just have to talk about what we want it to sound like, but for the most part it should be a little more subtle and less annoying ;)

Bridge level difficulty: I'm definitely going to tone this down on the normal difficulty, while keeping "Impossible Mode" insanely hard. Yesterday we had a bunch of people attempting this level on impossible mode at PAX, and I think 3 people beat it, but it took them quite a while (one of them played for over an hour on the same level).i am having problems playing it,it says i need vertex shader model 3 or better,download link please?

[jaybud4]

i am having problems playing it,it says i need vertex shader model 3 or better,download link please?
..Ehem.
If you don't have shader 3.0, you can't get shader 3.0 without upgrading your graphics card.

[coolmzn222]

dangit,well i just waste space until i get a new one

[AKWolf]

www.igneousgame.com

Check it out for the trailer and beta download. Final version will be out November 1st.

[geel9]

Could someone like...download the game, install it, zip up the installed archive and upload it to filefront? Damn UAC. DAMN YOU!

[NinjaNinja7]

i love you.

[SpuD]

Final Build! (unless someone can't run it and we'll try to fix)

Download (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U1G3L6WR)

I know it's a crappy megaupload link, DigiPen will have the real one up soon.

Our pitch video for the Indie Game Challenge. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep69caxg4pk)

Yeah, so everything is done, that's the build we're shipping to IGF this week.

Hope you enjoy!

[GameXtra]

ok so here is my though~
first of all, this as the most epic game I have ever played~
now for thing u can still improve:
- the second lvl in "the inferno" was more arcade like in the demo, u should do a "Easy" mode which u should put the game in a more arcade like state~
and for the end:
PLZ watch "The lazer collection" episode 1-3 in youtube and find out urself what u should put there XD

Doctor OCTOGANAPUS
BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

or at least write in english "IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER!!! BAHHHHHH!"

[rocketeer]

1. Fucking beautiful
2. Fucking fun
3. Fucking short

That is all.

[Confused111]

4. Fucking second level is possibly the best thing on Earth to grace the users of Fun-Motion's computers

[timelimit123]

just-in-time debugger says win32 exception occurred! even though I un-installed visual studio 4 days ago! please help!

[SpuD]

Igneous has been accepted into the IGF Student Showcase!

Watch the latest trailer here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nICd6W9d0i4)
Download for free here (http://www.igneousgame.com/)

Thanks for playing and giving us feedback everyone!

[UberGimp]

Congratulations :D

[Shalafi]

BSOD...

Something related to the driver...

I'm on XP, ATI x1950 PRO, latest ATI driver (since they won't update anymore).

[MACINTOSH USER]

Installing it again now, hope it works. *Prays*
Doesn't work because something about Vertex.

[Colescheffler]

Installing it again now, hope it works. *Prays*
Doesn't work because something about Vertex.
Vertex Shader? Your graphics card isn't sufficient to run it because it doesn't meet the Vertex Shader requirements.