G.R.E.Y.: A Black and White Cartoon-Shooter [Archive]

Elcoo

06-30-2009, 07:53 PM

Hi,
I've started working on this a week ago, currently the only thing I've got are Ragdolls and some animations, but I think it's time for some first demonstration videos:
Ragdolls as usual:
http://blip.tv/file/2304471
And with tearable parts(unfortunately you can't see them very good, apart from the last ragdoll falling down):
http://blip.tv/file/2304484

Well, I hope you like the Idea

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EDIT: Alpha released, see post #15!
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EDIT 2: I started a remake with a mate, third page for a first screenshot!

Nate The Great

07-01-2009, 03:46 AM

nice idea but I cant see much gameplay concept yet. surprise us! :eek:

RayzaB

07-08-2009, 04:43 AM

Looks snazzy, keep at it!

Elcoo

10-27-2009, 07:59 PM

Ok, I stopped this for a long time but I restarted development on it again. Here's a video showing the progress:
http://blip.tv/file/2775797
No missions yet and unfortunately I didn't manage to get sound working in the videos.
PS. Jump the first seconds of the video, VDub kept crashing so I didn't cut the vid.

Gamerguy99

10-27-2009, 08:22 PM

Video wasn't working for me.
But, based off of the frozen parts of the video I couldn't play, it looks great.
It has this really clean feeling to it, which I like. Keep up the good work.

Elcoo

10-27-2009, 08:26 PM

Video wasn't working for me.
But, based off of the frozen parts of the video I couldn't play, it looks great.
It has this really clean feeling to it, which I like. Keep up the good work.

Thanks!
Funny the video didn't work for you. The first ten seconds there's only a grey screen, but thats because of the game that's loading there. Or maybe blip.tv was still generating the .flv while you were trying to watch it.

Gamerguy99

10-27-2009, 10:46 PM

That's probably it. It works now, and looks fantastic. The only thing I would fix is the sniper rifle. The distance from the butt to the scope seems really long.

killimanjaro23

10-28-2009, 07:03 AM

Nice Work there Elcoo
I realy like the Blood effects and the ragdolls,will there be a level editor?i would make some stairs and push a ragdoll or push the ragdoll of a huge building
anyway,will you give us beta versions or demos until the game is finished?

So its a realy good project,good luck with it

Elcoo

10-28-2009, 09:03 AM

Thanks for the feedback!
@GamerGuy99: I made the barret from a technical drawing. The distance looked pretty long to me also, but it's that long on the real barret too :P
The scope is modular btw, so u can decide where you want to put it ingame ;)
@killimanjaro23: Yes I'm currently thinking about a level editor. But probaply it's not going to be a "what you see is what you get" editor, as you'll probably know it from Age of Empires 3 or Crysis Sandbox, but one Editor to set the AI waypoints, another for placing buildings etc. This is just easier to make for me :)
Yes there will be a beta soon, with a hardcoded tiny mission I think. Just to let you guys play around with it.

I also made a small level where you can push down guys from a building already. It's pretty funny seeing them fall down screaming :D

killimanjaro23

10-28-2009, 05:32 PM

Now regarding the Sniping Video
I LOVED IT
i realy like the way you snipe people,and that they panic,i also like that cars controled by people can smash other people
I realy like how the game looks

UberGimp

10-28-2009, 06:14 PM

That's pretty cool!
Nice work!

Although, you should maybe do something to the recoil of the sniper, you can't really see the damage you're doing to the stickmen untill they're lying on the ground.

Elcoo

10-28-2009, 07:07 PM

you can't really see the damage you're doing to the stickmen untill they're lying on the ground.

Yes, that's a point I'll have try around with. There has to be some recoil, or it won't feel "realistic", but yes it's annoying not to see the damage instantly.

killimanjaro23

10-28-2009, 07:09 PM

Yes, that's a point I'll have try around with. There has to be some recoil, or it won't feel "realistic", but yes it's annoying not to see the damage instantly.

Maybe makes some blood splash outa the ragdolls neck?
What weapons will you have in the game?i hope shotguns are included :p,along with grenades and a melee weapon(AXE!)

Elcoo

10-28-2009, 08:31 PM

There's already blood spraying out of the hole you shot through the ragdolls, the problem is, that the recoil thumps up the gun and you can't see it because you view gets up too ;)

I actually planned sniper rifles only, but it'll be probably modable anyway.

Elcoo

11-02-2009, 09:57 PM

Ok, so here is the pre-alpha version:
http://www.elcoomedia.ch/download/grey/

Sorry, but no mission yet. Just to let you play around :)
And don't forget to read the ReadMe!

Farbror Fazer

11-03-2009, 05:33 AM

Ok, so here is the pre-alpha version:
http://www.elcoomedia.ch/download/grey/

Sorry, but no mission yet. Just to let you play around :)
And don't forget to read the ReadMe!

I got killed twice for "not reading the readme" so I'll just not play, if that's what you want.

Elcoo

11-03-2009, 06:24 AM

Meh, I knew there would be some that just can't stand being caught :rolleyes:

It's just that I hate it to answer thousands of posts that could be solved by simply reading the readme. I had enough of it, so I built in that protection.

Farbror Fazer

11-03-2009, 06:38 AM

killimanjaro23

11-03-2009, 07:22 AM

So if you dont read the readme,you will get insta killed?
LIKE IN STUNTS?!

Elcoo

11-03-2009, 08:32 AM

Well you obviously didn't read it through correctly or you knew what to do.
Mhh maybe this protection is a bit to hard :)

Farbror Fazer

11-03-2009, 10:05 AM

Well you obviously didn't read it through correctly or you knew what to do.
Mhh maybe this protection is a bit to hard :)

Or maybe it's just stupid? If you want people to play the game, this is not a smart thing to put in it

I read the controls because I'm not a retard so it usually aint to hard to find the playbutton.

timelimit123

11-03-2009, 12:32 PM

Visual Studio Just-in-Time debugger popped up and said that an unhandeld win32 exception occurred. even though I uninstalled Visual Studio 3 days ago...

Elcoo

11-04-2009, 09:20 PM

Visual studio? Can you make a screenshot maybe?

timelimit123

11-05-2009, 03:06 PM

ya I could if I still had that debugger. I changed debugger to Dr. Watson, but he just crashes the program without warning. there's probably some weird "win32 exception", because that's what Visual studio JIT said.

juju02

12-22-2009, 09:37 PM

so is this dead now?

Elcoo

12-24-2009, 09:39 PM

Ah, not exactly, I just had to do much stuff for school and hadn't got the time to go on in development.
I'm gonna continue dev now as we got holidays :)

Edit: And I canceled the readme protection;)

Infalot09

12-28-2009, 04:38 PM

Yeah.....could be better...Just try to experiment a little more.....and slowly but surely you will get there

Best of Luck

Elcoo

12-28-2009, 08:09 PM

Yeah.....could be better...Just try to experiment a little more.....and slowly but surely you will get there

Best of Luck

Can you explain what could be better? This would help me to tune it ;)

EDIT: Hell, just recognised its that stupid spambot! Thought that I heard that name before oO

geel9

12-28-2009, 10:40 PM

Any new stuff?

Elcoo

12-29-2009, 12:38 PM

Nothing that I could show yet. I'm currently working on AI wearing weapons and I'm doing a 3d model of a MP5SD6

smithno13

12-30-2009, 07:01 PM

Feels like it has a lot of potential, but it is just way too buggy. On windows seven, black screen with some white noise then crash. Compatibility mode Windows XP SP3, constant crashes.

ss2man44

12-31-2009, 06:59 PM

Are you saying that it has no potential because it doesn't work on your computer?

It's hard to program something that complex and have it work on all hardware and all versions of Windows at first.

Elcoo

01-02-2010, 12:30 AM

My brother got Windows 7 2 days ago so I can check that out. Sounds like a problem with DirectX or something. Thanks for reporting. What do you mean with constant crashes btw? Is it working and then crashing or can't you even play?

Str4fe

01-03-2010, 09:21 AM

OH MY GOD! you know these online flash games where you play as a stickman and you must assasinate someone? make it a 3d WITH physics like in that mission where you must shoot the chandelier on the stickman. OMGOMGOMGOMG. serioisly, i would buy your game with an serious prize if it was like that...

Gamerguy99

01-03-2010, 04:26 PM

Did you even read the original post? That's practically what this game is.

jenygs09

01-05-2010, 02:09 AM

sakiskid

01-05-2010, 12:31 PM

Spaaaaam! And if you do it backwards its, maaaaapS! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX

Elcoo

01-05-2010, 10:43 PM

Lol, you guys really know how to motivate me:D Even those spambots...

And yes, one of those Flashgames somehow inspired me.

Edit:
Just made up a small concept art. This is how the so assumed "bad guys" could look like:

http://s8.directupload.net/images/100106/9ki5r6oh.png

Gamerguy99

01-06-2010, 01:15 AM

Nice. I love the simple and clean look of the game. Then no one can complain about the graphics.

timelimit123

02-01-2010, 03:42 PM

Oh. My. God.

Got an extra drive for christmas, and (dunno why) I can now play the game!
... So it WAS my extra drive crashing, woot!

You should definately make a respawn button, and maybe a button to add more stickmen? also, it would be cool to have a demo where you can push some dude of a rooftop! XD
btw, sometimes it seems like I did a perfect headshot, and it didn't count. explanation please?
also, that red dot that appears after you shoot, why isn't is showing up all the time? it would really help out aiming. maybe it could be turn-off-able, and the sticks could see it and run away? lol

anyway, I hope you continue developing!

Elcoo

02-03-2010, 06:02 PM

You can push down a man in the demo already. He's standing right on the roof you are on, but he jumps as soon as you shoot, cause he's panicing. You're right of course, a restart button's missing.
The red dot that appears is the bullet, not an aiming help, I know it's not really fitting in.
If the men are running around you have to calculate that the bullet's speed is not infinite, so you'll have to shoot in front of the men.

Elcoo

02-12-2010, 08:22 PM

Update:
I actually planned to send a video of this again but capturing somehow lags on Windows 7 for some reason so I'll post this screen until I got it working:
http://www9.picfront.org/token/y4KU/2010/02/12/1760726.png

There's a lot of new stuff:
- Glow effects on cars, windows, lights etc.
- Realtime Cubemapped reflections
- Animated Blood splashes (Blood sliding down walls etc.)
- Day/Night change
- Lot's of bugs fixed
- Menu added

I'm still not quite finished with the AI and the first mission, so you still have to wait for the next release a bit. Not sure when it'll be ready but it's gonna be in about the next few weeks.

Farbror Fazer

02-13-2010, 07:35 PM

Nice. I love the simple and clean look of the game. Then no one can complain about the graphics.

You can complain because it's too simple and "boring-looking"?

starsky

02-18-2010, 03:56 AM

it keeps crashing D: probably because of my shitty vista -_-

Elcoo

02-20-2010, 09:44 PM

Any error messages maybe? When does it crash?
I just recognized that I forgot to mention that physx drivers are required. You can download them on nvidia's homepage.

starsky

02-22-2010, 11:53 PM

Any error messages maybe? When does it crash?
I just recognized that I forgot to mention that physx drivers are required. You can download them on nvidia's homepage. thanks man. EDIT: I have ati...

Elcoo

02-23-2010, 03:15 PM

It doesn't matter if you have an ATI card or not, I'm also running it on both, ATI and NVidea.
Just download this file:
http://www.nvidia.de/object/physx_8.09.04_whql_de.html

starsky

02-24-2010, 03:27 AM

It doesn't matter if you have an ATI card or not, I'm also running it on both, ATI and NVidea.
Just download this file:
http://www.nvidia.de/object/physx_8.09.04_whql_de.html Thanks, everything works now.

geel9

03-08-2010, 05:52 AM

This reminds me of a game idea I had. It was called "free 2 kill". Shut up.

You basically could go around doing anything--but most of the game design time was spent working on adding new interactions. Want to attach an IED to a curb and launch a car into a building? I guess we could do that.

SHADR

03-14-2010, 07:58 PM

So ummm... when will this gets realeased?
yay 100th post!!! i am a senior member now

Elcoo

03-15-2010, 06:14 PM

I know I said "in a few weeks" but unfortunately I have much to do for school and I wasn't able to work on. I've got other projects to work on too, so this is kinda paused.

flyboy95

03-16-2010, 06:01 AM

So ummm... when will this gets realeased?
yay 100th post!!! i am a senior member now
May God have pity on our souls.

Str4fe

04-30-2010, 02:54 PM

I guess this is dead now. :/

Fox-Fool

04-30-2010, 07:09 PM

You've got to be reasonable, school can be hectic, especially as the final weeks are coming.

Zcool31

04-30-2010, 08:03 PM

You've got to be reasonable, school can be hectic, especially as the final weeks are coming.

And coming they are indeed. They will come so hard, and leave you sore. You will be violated!

Fox-Fool

04-30-2010, 08:41 PM

I remember the days when simple words like come wouldn't be take perversely.
Oh well, it's still freaking funny.

EDIT: On topic: A new update, at the very least telling us the situation, would be nice.

EDIT2: Heh, I made a picture out of the demo.

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/Fox-Fool/Grey.png

Elcoo

05-02-2010, 01:37 AM

Well, I'm still here and the last weeks were pretty stressful. I must admit, that I somehow forgot about this one. I looked in the code again and recognized that there are many things done wrong. I've got three options now: Firstly I could just give up and declare this one dead officialy. Secondly, I could try to make the best out of what I've done so far. And Thirdly I could throw away the code and start again.
I actually think that option 3 is the best. I just learn with everyday I'm coding and I'm sure I can do better that I did in the code of G.R.E.Y.
Don't expect updates in near time, I'm gonna write my last test this month in a few days, but I don't know if I'm gonna have much more time after it.

Still, I'm happy that you're interested in this game. I hope this will motivate me enough to go on and finish this one, cause to be honest, I never managed to finish a game yet apart from some really small ones.

Fox-Fool

05-15-2010, 07:37 PM

(Somehow I missed the update)

The demo is really quite fun.
I think if you simply polish it up, you can make it a presentable game.

All I really need to have to be content would be a crouch button for added stability, a quarry system (telling you who to kill), and possibly an ammo system (restrains the ability to spam bullets).

Elcoo

05-16-2010, 11:20 AM

You're right of course, some things seem pretty simple. The biggest problem is the level design and how it can be realized and that's currently the thing that impedes me to get on.

Fox-Fool

05-18-2010, 04:11 AM

I like the rooftop idea.
Perhaps you could start at the sidewalk, allowing access to the building.
It might be fun if you could choose the floor you're at.

Wrestler#1

05-19-2010, 02:23 PM

The movement seems pretty slow and needs some polishment. And it would be cool if you could zoom in a little more so you can actually hit those stickmen.

And please make the stickmen calm down after a while because after just some minutes I had a really big traffic jam with people running around and cars flying through the sky :D

Elcoo

06-04-2010, 05:38 PM

After several hours of just sitting in my room thinking I made a decision now. I'll start G.R.E.Y. from scratch and it will use the Unreal Engine 3. No it won't be a mod, but a standalone game using UDK.
I decided not to use my own "game engine" as I would need my own Level-Editor, Scripting interpreter etc. and that would simply cost much time.

Fox-Fool

06-05-2010, 12:46 AM

Hopefully it works out for you.

sakiskid

06-05-2010, 02:10 AM

B-b-b-b-BOT!

Fox-Fool

06-05-2010, 03:42 AM

Just report, you aren't helping by spamming "B-b-b-bot!" whenever the bot spams.

starsky

03-08-2011, 09:34 PM

so is this project gonna be continued?

spikerdude111

04-05-2011, 07:37 AM

i Think that this game has super potential, this could be so good that it might be like Minecraft, a simple idea that everybody loves!!

i have full hope in you Elcoo even though it has been quite a few months since you last posted, dont let this game drop! it can really be something!! ;)

timelimit123

04-14-2011, 03:55 PM

Quite a few months?
It's been a year..

Elcoo

01-14-2012, 01:51 PM

Quite a few months?
It's been a year..

But is it over yet?
http://image-upload.de/thumb/ubXzwr/a0da717d2d.png (http://image-upload.de/file/ubXzwr/a0da717d2d.png)

Lifeinsteps

01-14-2012, 08:35 PM

But is it over yet?
http://image-upload.de/thumb/ubXzwr/a0da717d2d.png (http://image-upload.de/file/ubXzwr/a0da717d2d.png)

That was an epic return.

I hope not.

Zero_Ctrl

01-15-2012, 12:42 AM

:D
Yaaay!

Elcoo

01-15-2012, 08:56 PM

Glad to see these reactions :)
As soon as we got a first mission running you may expect a video or maybe even a small demo again. Maybe I'll post some more screenshots as soon as we got enough to show.

Be prepared for some unusual causes of death ;)

Zero_Ctrl

01-15-2012, 09:01 PM

I still have that prototype installed.
Looking forward to more.

antotabo

01-28-2012, 01:00 AM

Nice to see this moving, I'll be waiting....!

J S

02-27-2012, 05:31 PM

According to the research, it should be well worth starting over with all new paintball gear. .50 caliber balls are not only cheaper and less painful, but they outperform .68 caliber by far. Since .50 caliber paintballs are much smaller, they require less force to shoot, resulting in 60% less impact than with the .68 caliber.

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Elcoo

02-27-2012, 05:52 PM

spikerdude111

03-02-2012, 09:12 AM

oh bruh!, i knew you could do it!. like i said, it has some of the best potential for a indie game.

oh and btw, what are you using? visual basic C++? UDK?
I really like the concept of simplistic 3d game development.

and again, this is great.

Elcoo

03-08-2012, 07:30 PM

Thx spikerdude!
We are using BlitzMax+Blide for programming, Xors3d (DirectX 9, good engine with even better developers!) for graphics, Nvidia Physx as physics engine and some selfmade tools.
Btw. our semester break started this weak, so we'll be able to invest more time in development now.
We actually pulled off quite much in the meantime, though there is not too much to show in a video or something. It's more the kind of backend stuff, like basic AI behaivior, weapon- and scripting mechanics. All this is finished or at least near finished. We now have to focus on actual level design and as soon as we've got our first real level running, you'll be first to know.

Zero_Ctrl

03-08-2012, 10:32 PM

Woohoo !

Elcoo

03-12-2012, 07:19 PM

We've just got this new kind of stuff running, it's called a "blog" and it's in the internetz! :D

http://grey-game.blogspot.com/

spikerdude111

03-13-2012, 04:05 AM

Awesome! i really like the style of the game.

BTW: Do you guys have programming knowledge? how long? cause i want to get into game Development sometime soon.. :D and the more knowledge i have of programming, the better i can learn.

Zero_Ctrl

03-13-2012, 04:14 AM

That's a shnazzy favicon.

Elcoo

03-13-2012, 11:57 AM

Thx!
@spikerdude: We've both been programming for about six years. If you have any questions regarding game development in general, modelling, texturing or programming feel free to contact me via PM, I'll give my best to help you.

spikerdude111

03-15-2012, 06:46 AM