NIGHTMARE TV - Project + Screenshots

Hi !

We are students of a French game design & project management school (SUPINFOGAME). During our last years, we have developed a demo of a game called Nightmare TV.
Our project began in December 2003 and will finish in June 2004. We worked 2 months on pre-production (Game design, Level design, scenario, …) and 6 months on production.
We began our project on Virtools, but we have a poor framerate so we change our engine for Blitz 3D.

Genre:
Nightmare TV is a First Person Infiltration.

Synopsis:
You play a candidate of real TV show who must survive in an hostile environment full of robots. You can hack and control robots.

Level and enemies :
The game takes place in a port.
There are two type of robots:
- Flying robot
- Biped

The Team:
Sylvain AMI - Programmer
Mathieu AUDRAIN - Level Design, Programmer
Christophe DELABROUHE – 3D modeler, Project Manager
Hadrien GRANDRY - 3D modeler, Sound Designer
Thomas JACQUEMIN - Level designer, Scripter
Jean Philippe MOTTIER - Game Designer, Programmer


Engine features :

- Two 3D real time render in the same Frame.
- Avi video in Player Personal Computer
- Real Time Sound FX ( Reverb, Flanger )
- Fast particle System ( Particule Candy )
- Integration of Tokamak ( Physic Entity, Ragdoll)
- Script Engine
- Control robots in First Person View
- IA based on A*
- Motion Blur, Lens Flare, Cubic environment mapping, spherical environment mapping …
- Radiosity Static lightmap ( Gile[s] )

Screenshots (WORK IN PROGRESS) :

looks very impressive!

wow, looks cool!

Looks very cool. Sorta like a mix of Splinter Cell and System Shock 2.

Demo soon?

we can't plan a demo still the project isn't finished.

Wesh wow! Your game/demo is looking very good indeed - excellent work.

I particularly like the lighting - it works so well in your environments.

The boxes physics looks cool too, is that Tokamak in action?

The crane looks like it can do some serious damage too, I gues you can get up to it?


Oh I have a faovur to ask...do you do lessons in Virtools?

I could really do with someone to help me with it, I have 2.5 and 3.0 but I am still struggling with some of the basic knowledge, which seems to be hidden from users.

Please e-mail me if you can help on the Virtools front.

Regards,

IPete2.

looking nice so far

I dunno what to make of this. As screenshots, very nice indeed.

As a game.... the fact that you only have two different types of enemy/robot troubles me. Is that all there's going to be in the full game? If so it will be in danger of becoming very repetitive very quickly.

Yeah, we have used Tokamak for the physic. We have several physic entity like crate, boxes and can.
Yes, We can use and controle the crane. We have special gameplay with it...

@IPete2
yes, I will email you when I will have time. But I'm not keen of Virtools. I can help you, though ;)
We used the 2.5 version and changed for blitz.

thanks for your compliment :)

Looks very nice man. Don't you even have a very small demo? please!

What spec of pc was the above run on?

NTV is not a full game, we develop a demo which demonstrate some gameplay and level design. Our aim is to make a demo which last 10 min.
If we don't modelise more than two type of robots is because we don't have enough time. Officially, we have only 2 days per weeks to work on this project during 5 month. It's few and we have to respect planning.

We can't upload a demo still we don't have the permission of our school. I'm sorry for that! :(

It runs on a Athlon 1.33Ghz, Geforce 4 and 512 Mo

That's cool :) Look good anyways.

GeForce 4 MX, or Ti?

Geforce 4 Ti 4200 ;)

Ah, not a bad frame rate, for the look of the game :)

Cool Wesh, ravi de te revoir.
Vous bossez comme des ouff ds cette école. :)

The idea reminds me a bit of Smash TV

Smash TV, and the movie "The Running Man" :).

The pictures have lots of atmosphere. I liked the game "Terminator Future Shock" for it's cold blooded robots, this look a bit like that game, only better. :)

Looks very nice. Good atmosphere!