New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

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kazade
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New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Post#1 » Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:36 am

Hi everyone!

This is my submission for the Dream On Game Jam. It's a demo of a larger game I'm working on and the first true test of my Simulant Game Engine.

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Known Issues:
  • It's a little slow, I'm going to spend the next month or so profiling and optimising Simulant to improve this.
  • It occasionally crashes/freezes on load. This is a race condition I didn't get to track down before the jam deadline. - Fixed.
  • The controller deadzones aren't quite right. - Fixed.
  • If you fly off the map, you're in for a bad time.
  • Sometimes it freezes at the mission complete/failed screen. - Fixed.
  • Some of the game UI is glitchy on hardware. - Fixed.

Download

You can download the latest CDI from the Itch.io game page.

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Anthony817
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Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Post#2 » Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:50 am

I think I told you on Twitter when you first revealed this engine how much I love the combat game series of helicopter games. I am so happy you decided to make a full game from this! It would help to sell this game if you had a video showing current gameplay IMHO.

Thanks so much for the demo mate. Happy New Years!
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Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Post#3 » Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:50 am

thanks kazade

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Ian Micheal
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Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Post#4 » Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:24 am

Really cool been watching this take shape amazing work :)

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Nico0020
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Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Post#5 » Fri Jan 03, 2020 7:39 am

Glad to see you have been making progress. I am traveling for the holidays but will def burn a copy when im back home. Sounds fun.

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Wrath of Khan
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Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Post#6 » Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:08 pm

If you could upload a small gameplay video that would be much appreciated. Interested to see the finished game. I like these type of games

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Ryo Suzuki
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Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Post#7 » Sun Jan 05, 2020 12:10 pm

It looks great!

I will try it soon.

kazade
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Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Post#8 » Sun Jan 05, 2020 4:55 pm

I've updated the post with a video by the most excellent @freakdave

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The-Amazing-Mr_V
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Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Post#9 » Sun Jan 05, 2020 5:01 pm

This is looking awesome

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Wrath of Khan
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Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Post#10 » Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:02 pm

Might I ask what improvements you have planned for this game

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