Clusteration of Everything

This post is going to be hugeeee so be sure to grab a packet of crisps whilst reading .

Firstly I would like to apologies to everyone for me not posting in a while. I had exams.  On the other hand, I added some new stuff to my blog and I was working hard on an engine for Crimson Knights first official game.

Before I begin talking about our new game, I would like to introduce our team:

Michael Smith: Room Provider, Guider and Adviser of Crimson Knights

Gary Forbes: Room Provider, Guider and Adviser of Crimson Knights

Jaspal Atwal: Programmer, Web Designer

ME: Programmer

Rayner O’Brian: Programmer (Still in training)

Lewis “Spuddy” Easton: Concept development and paper artist

Jacob Kew:Idea Development, Concept Development, Computer Artist and Gameplay designer

Alexander Hall: Music

Kyle Medford-Hawkins: Music

Now to move on to our game.

The game is currently called Project X until someone can think of a name for it. At the moment there are still many ideas being thrown around everywhere depending on how the game play would work. First I will announce the things which are defiantly happening:

The game would involve you playing as a jelly cube which carries weapons. It has to survive as long as it can from eye-shaped enemies which attack it. The enemies change as the levels progress and more of them appear. We would also include an option for the player to set their own difficulty level. The game would have other modes like Infection and Capture/Defend the flag, however those two modes would be an online exclusive (Yes we are adding online play ).

Now for the ideas which we are constantly changing :S

1) The jelly blob will either have exclusive attacks depending on what character you choose, or they would have six different faces, with their own different weapon. Those weapons would lose in strength the longer you use a face.

2) You may have to suck jelly to stay alive (crazy idea)

The game idea/’s have come from inspiration given from our team and Rob Miles.

The engine for this all is being developed by me and Jazz based on things we have learned from Rob Mile’s awesome book .

Now for the best news to sum all of this up.  We received an XBOX 360 from Microsoft. Not just any 360, an XBOX 360 ELITE. We were practically drooling at the sight of it. We plugged it in and played some Halo 3 in order to get me inspiration and to generally have fun with the team. We haven’t installed XNA on it yet because we still need to connect to the internet and get XBOX LIVE.

P.S. were receiving a cable from Microsoft in order to help us get the best experience with the 360 on Monday.

I unfortunately am going on holiday next Friday, so I wont be able to keep you up to date until after the summer holidays

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