Sneak Peak @ Holiday Bonus

Here you go:



Artwork by IPete2 from these forums (+logo by me).

Work is progressing well. Expect to see a beta in the showcase by the end of next week.

I'm really excited about this as it uses the OZ engine but with totally new media, more levels, some other tweaks, some extra polish extra and it's produced and published by me, which is nice :-)

Hope you like the screenie.

Very nice grey... It looks warm and comfy... Definitly a 'roast chestnut' feel to it. :)

Dabz

Looks great. Can't wait to check it out! Good work!

Barney

The music is fab too and all the buttons have special glows and there will be animation on that screen as well...+ a fancy intro. All this before the game starts, let's hope the game is just as good ;-)

w000! it gets my vote already ... :P :P

animate the fire.. :)

And make sure the ambient light changes in accordance :)

Any examples? :) - How much is this going to be when its complete? and finally, if it has my fave christmas tune, sleigh ride, I'll be uber tempted :)

I did say it was going to be animated and UBER POLISHED didn't I?

Qube: Sorry you'll have to wait for the beta to hear the lush music composed by Film/TV composer! (wonder who?) Game will be $19.95 for 100 levels of slick match-3 with a crazy bonus system that's gonna be sooo cool ('scuse the pun). Not sure I know what sleigh ride is. It's got it's own "theme", which I'm sure you'll like.

The font and such looks really nice, but I think that the white glow looks a tad cold compared with the rest of the image... Might want to give a little more of a yellow/orangish hue to it.

I think he just wants to hear those dzingdzingdzingdzingdzingdzingdzingdzingdzingdzingdzingdzingdzing sleighbells.. :P

xlsior: The gold glow looked cheesy and the white glow was needed to make it stand out from the background a bit. I hear you though. Anyway the in-game images are all snowy and cold brrrr.

CS_TBL: U bet I do, getting anxious now ... ;-)

You need a comma before the name. It's the little things customers notice, not the months you spend programming the big stuff!

Looks nice, kinda reminds me of the microsoft sam thing.

I believe it's optional (my partner is a science writer/editor) but I may add it to please people :-)

I assume you mean Microsoft Bob?

Gates ended up marrying its project leader. That's probably the only reason that thing ever got greenlit. ;-)

Just out of interest, why isn't is called "Christmas Bonus" as it's clearly a Christmas theme based game?

This artwork is great, will be a great piece/hit on Xmas season.

Wow, that font is stunning! I love it! That looks GREEEEEEEAT!!!

@Qube
There was a long thread on this:

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=64479

Ahh, I see now. Over the top political correctness strikes again.

Thanks for the link BB :)

Thanks everyone. I hope this does well.

Qube: Yeah it's to appeak to the American's. My last Christmas game was called Xmas Bonus.

Looking good Mr Grey. :)

Now, after this is done and finished, please continue work on the Match 3 Game framework. ;)

GREAT. As always Grey!!!

Amon: I know you are only kidding, but I'm not going to sell the match-3 code as it's too lucrative and I'd be shooting myself in the foot. But the framework has improved again whilst making Holiday Bonus (added in scripted particle effects amongst other things). Then next year I aim to be making arcade-style games, platformers and shooters etc and will add this code into the framework so watch this space!

Cyg: thanks dude. Keep an eye out for the beta later this week.

BOB, yes thats the one.

Wtf, gates married a dog called bob ? ;)

I've never heard ofit but a quick wiki (qwiki) and google image search revealed all. I assume you mean this screen:

"added in scripted particle effects"

Sounds interesting. Can you give us some more details please.
Regarding the screen shots they look really nice. The font came out great too. How was that done?

Jason.

Grey, that be the one yarrr harr. You can see the resemblance there quite a bit. I read this page about it a while back and there were tons of screenshots. Can't find it right now. But there was a christmas themed one.

BOB was hailed by Gates as the next big thing... It was supposed to make computers 'less confusing' and 'intimidating' to the average user.

Needless to say, it failed miserably.

QuickSilva: Basically when you create a particle you can now create phases, so for example you can say Phase 1) remain invisible for x millisecs, Phase 2) fade in and move to this location Phase 3) start rotating and move over here Phase 4) fade out. The phases are not limited. Each phases allows control over movement, rotation, fading, scaling and visibility. I've used it in HB to magic magic flow out of a point in a stream (by random delay oneach particle before appearing) and then when it hits the destination it stops and fades :-) It's not mega advanced but it does allow some pretty cool stuff.

Sounds cool. Thanks for the explanation.

Jason.

So...

will there be particles in the fireplace then?

IPete2.

maybe...maybe not. Time is running short :-(

oh, Ok

I was just imagining them...lush.


IPete2

When are you hoping to release this? I assume it`s soon judging by your last comment.

Jason.

I think he's currently out, buying a cherry to put on the cake. And when the cake is done, someone will put more notes on it.. ^^

was planning to release beta today but looks like it will be at the weekend. Full version *HAS* to be Monday or Tuesday or the portals will start saying NO.

Yeah I was out but I'm back on the case now.

...and I can say that the cherry is looking rather nice too, and from what I have heard of the music so far it is fabulous too, I can't wait to hear the rest...

IPete2.

Been testing Mark's new DX7 driver and it's been slowing me up a lot but it's needed to ensure the game can recover from a Screensaver with password protect or Ctrl+Alt+Del on XP Pro/Win2K.