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System Scan - Bare Minimum EGP competition -

I just saw the new competition on the Experimental gameplay project website, and decided to enter it. Don't know if this idea was tackled before, but I don't care. I just wanted to do something that is simple, interesting and somehow a little different.

Name: System Scan
Description: In this game, you are a virus scanning software, and your job is to scan through the files on drive C. You don't have to exterminate anything, just enter a file, 'take notes' and leave. In the game, each file is represented by a number of tiles. Your job is to get to the exit, which is high above you, and the only way you can do that, is by raising the tile floor. But be careful, hence viruses are bound to appear, and you wouldn't want to be infected by one of them, do you?

Smiling - Done
Laughing out loud - Almost done [a few bugs left]
Eye-wink - Working on
Evil - Planned

To Do:
Tile system - Smiling
Picking, raising, lowering and selecting tiles - Smiling
Re-Spawning[In case of falling] - Smiling
Gravity and collision - Laughing out loud
Camera Modes - Laughing out loud
Enemies - Eye-wink
Save System - Evil

This is all I have on my list for now. Also, keep in mind, the idea of the competition is to have a bare minimum game, so I will just be using premades for characters, and only 1-2 ambient sounds.

Characters:
Blue Cube - Player
Grey Cones - Flying viruses that may hit you, while you are 'climbing' towards the next file
Red Spheres - Ground viruses, that walk on certain paths
Grey Tiles - Spywares! Don't step on them...

I also made a small video of what I did today. Just uploaded it on youtube, so it may take a while for it to be process. Let's just hope the quality will be ok.

Videos

Day 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c56x2pl2Nec

Screenshots

http://www.imagesl.info/imagine/Anonymous/Anonymous/3_1.png

http://www.imagesl.info/imagine/Anonymous/Anonymous/2_2.png

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Submitted by zapakitul
Sun, 08/02/2009 - 20:11

Looks good I guess the

Looks good Smiling

I guess the actual gameplay is to carefully arrange and move between the tiles to reach the top exit?

I like the clean style of the game, somehow it reminds me of the matrix movie.

Anyway, good work and good luck in the compo Smiling

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Submitted by hObbE
Tue, 08/04/2009 - 12:04

Arange and move between the

Arange and move between the tiles yes, but also avoid all those kinda of viruses that 'fly' by.
Thanks for the comments. The game should be done by tomorrow [I hope].

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Submitted by zapakitul
Tue, 08/04/2009 - 16:30

Cool! I just saw on the site

Cool! I just saw on the site that you only get 7 days to "complete" the game. That's a really cool rule. Though it could be discussed what is actually meant 7 * 24h working time, 7 calendar days?

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Submitted by hObbE
Tue, 08/04/2009 - 18:44

I don't know, but I'm

I don't know, but I'm thinking of it like: If I open up the project, then that's one day! So each day I code - 1 day! It only has two days right now, hence today I added another level, and worked on the 'enemies'. I'll code some more when I'll be back from the sea side!

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Submitted by zapakitul
Tue, 08/04/2009 - 21:13

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