Ask HN: What game(s) are you working on?
I've very recently started writing a HTML5 game inspired by Teeworlds.
https://imgur.com/a/0iyFmBm
I'm curious to hear what you guys are working on.
I'm curious to hear what you guys are working on.
I'm still in game design/database design which in this game are very closely linked. My goal is to be able to play the full game by invoking SQL scripts, which I'll turn into apis, and then start the web UI.
As far as theme it's spy fiction with the usual scifi/occult features. You manage a spy agency on the world map and have agents and resources of various types. You use the agents and resources to develop investigations and collect evidence. All the players' agencies are in competition for limited resources and limited rewards for solving cases.
The investigations are strictly speaking puzzles. Any investigation for which you already know the solution can be done trivially.
My goal is to create a sort of information race metagame which makes the players practice real information security and spying. The perfect result would encourage information sharing within a small trusted group of players (big enough to tackle complex investigations) but discourage information sharing in public (if you leak all your investigation solutions to gamefaqs then every single player can now progress to your level and compete with you for the next level).
It's a cute idea but I don't know how much players will like it. It already exists on some level in EVE and I'm not sure opsec is that fun.
I've started to make a Tron clone where the playing field is a polyhedron instead of a plane[1] but as usual with my projects it's been lying around unfinished in a corner for quite a while now.
There is also a puzzle game about creating clones that repeat player movements starting with their first[2]. It was created for a game jam together with one other person and has also not been touched since then, although we agreed that it might be worth polishing.
[1] https://imgur.com/a/lYJ3F4t
[2] https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzIzNTUxMzIuZ2lm/347x500/9j4LcL.gi...
Your game is looking extremely interesting!
explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxaSwbv7y4k
link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.org.tropic....
and I'm open to collaborating to take spy thriller further.
One is a browser game make with node.js (there's no code yet so this could change) and websockets. It's about space exploration with a lot of RPG features like killing for loot, skills, professions, huuuuuuuuugue marketplace. Of course it's a real time multiplayer game. Trading with other players is a MUST. Every player has a limited number of professions (from simple ones like agriculture and mining to nuclear weapons manufacturing or software programming) and most of them need things that only others can provice, hence the need of trading.
Imagine an Eve Online without the 3D, where you only manage stuff and the stuff you do works even when you're offline.
The second game is a mixture of a rogulike, Skyrim with graphics like Graveyard Keeper. I won't lie. This is a tough game to code. I have the music covered but not the graphics but I'm not worried about that as the game would run with a basic tileset until late development. The problem is making it work. I don't have any kind of experience in this kind of game so I don't know. Maybe I'll use an existing engine (thinking in Godot), maybe I'll make my own or maybe I won't do anything at all. There would be no ROI in a very long time and would make unable to spend my time on more profitable things. We'll see.
Just imagine you're sitting at your desk and set up a space exploration company. There you have a nice interface from where you manage your ships, your workers and everything.
The game mechanics are very well-suited for mobile devices (click & drag to move blocks), but the puzzle grids are 14x14 and with the surrounding UI in its current form, the screen is a bit too busy and it makes it difficult to click on the block you want to click on using touch controls on smaller screens like a phone. So I'm trying to create a simplified UI in preparation for releasing the game on mobile.
The game is currently available for PC & Mac on Steam[1], itch.io[2], and the Windows Store[3]. I'm sure there are some puzzle aficionados here on HN, and I would be delighted if you'd check it out!
[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/800860/Omnicube
[2] https://trykon.itch.io/omnicube
[3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/omnicube/9njcwkrx4mm...
The concept is pretty simple: Take a piece of paper and divide it into three parts. Now, Player 1 draws a face on the first part of the paper, folds it over and passes it to Player 2. Player 2 then draws the body, folds it again and passes it to Player 3. Player 3 draws the legs or feet on the third part of the paper.
In the end, you unfold the paper and a funny creature reveals itself! Now imagine this, just on your smartphone – the possibilities are endless ;)
Currently I'm working on tileset loading (and eventually autotiling) with C and SDL2 and hopefully will have random dungeon generation ported over from the python version eventually.
It's hard to demonstrate without having it in hands, but here's some screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/BNbv613
If that is the case, awesome. Great game idea! If it's not the case, maybe it's worth looking into. And also I'd like to know how you do let the player play this game.
Browser based action RPG with optional cryptocurrency rewards. Kill 3 players or 33 NPCs to cashout in NANO. Bid back your NANO to resume your saved game. Authentication happens via your wallet address.
It's a lot harder to find the time while juggling work and family responsibilities and a new serious hobby of board game design (I have one game signed by a publisher and have gotten interest in several other designs of mine), though, but I've made good progress.
Adding 1080p support, adding localization support, adding support for more players, adding more modes and maps, adding a single player mode, adding achievements, cleaning up the UI, and hopefully sneak in a few other things. Maybe online multiplayer, but not sure if I can support that yet (maybe a later version of it will have it).
This year has just been too crazy to hope to get it finished, but I'm hoping to get it released on at least one platform (probably PC to start) by the end of the year next year, then as many more platforms as I can after that.
Here's a video of the Xbox game if you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqe0hS7AvOE
Most of the programs I've written up to this point have been quite small, so this is my first large, ambitious project. I'm having a good time so far.
I'm developing a Real time strategy game inspired by the immune system and the science behind that.
It's called H.O.P.E Nanocell squad and is inspired by saturday morning cartoons, and RTS games like Tooth & Tail and Dawn of War 2.
http://random-character-generator.com
Though not originally planned to be a game, it could well be one. The engine can basically do anything that a d100 table would do and make sure the results doesn't conflict. Not just characters but teams, dungeons, building designs, town districts, plots and plot hooks, and so on.
One day, I'd love to be able to generate a full plot - hero, villain, intro scene, the call to adventure, training montage, conflict, initial defeat, climactic last battle against all odds, victory and rewards. What I'd like to do is have the users fill in a few blanks like monster type, conflict type (e.g. war, comedy, romantic) and then have the algorithm search for a story that meets those conditions, as well as the dramatic inflection points.
The bottleneck now is the speed of adding content. I'm currently retiring the current prototype to build it properly, and allow others to make their customized story content.
I am developing my first ever game! I think the mobile gaming market is missing actual games that try something new and that are not built around milking money and putting some standard game mechanics around it.
My game is called Neon Sling: This video shows a much older built than I have right now but shows the core gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhmjATLaSk
You can also play a more recent build from the play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.OlafEsSaad...
I think it is a lot of fun, although there is not much progression at the moment.
This is what I am gonna add till release: A "tutorial", I want to unlock new mechanics with every level and explain them first. Right now you start with every mechanic available and it is confusing for new player who don't even know what to do at all.
Second I want to add different ball/background skins that change the gameplay up. For example, the time power up would add one more second or each combo gives 5 points more. You can buy these unlocks with the points that act as your score. The idea was that you can experiment with different combinations to find the one which gets you the highest score. Also leaderboards are missing.
I would love if anyone wants to try it out, give feedback and/or ideas!
https://packetpirate.itch.io/gravewave
Eventually I'm planning to get it onto Steam, but there's a lot more work to be done.
The songs are just placeholders during early development. I'm planning to overhaul those after the graphics.
More up-to-date gameplay can be seen on my Twitter:
https://blog.codefor.cash/2019/08/09/announcing-v0-2-of-crou...
The most exciting thing is that while people have built bots to play the game, the game is still actively playable through its human UX.
It's a very simple game mechanic with some complex supporting features. There is a game play area of ~500k pixels with hidden tokens behind some of them. Users earn 'stamina' throughout the day in attempt to find the larger prizes.
It's been getting nice traction with ~100 daily active users and growing.
I'm also building a Tradewars 2002 clone, trying to get everything as close as I possibly can to the original. Again, probably won't get it to deployment, but it's a fun thing to work on when I'm on a plane or don't have much else to do.
I'm also actively developing a social web game where players work together to build a story by submitting words and voting in a common word bank. One of my servers is down right now so I don't have a playable link, but the game (and domain) is Rauk.us and is connected to an associated Twitter account that shares completed "stories" (@Rauk_us). I'm aiming to have the game back up next week. Developed in Node.js with Socket.io for real-time gameplay.
I've also designed & developed multiple commercial releases in the digital space (i.e. Steam + Itch.io), but since those are past projects I'll leave them out.