Prepare For MetaSpace - In beautiful CD-Quality Full Motion Video!
Come play the new interactive movie from the creators of From Space It Came, Featuring: - Dozen(s?) of minutes of Full Motion Video at an astounding 320x224 Pixels! - More than 512 colors on screen at once! - Entirely simulated CD loading pauses!! - A Radar in the UI that does absolutely nothing! - Multiple Endings!* *If you count dying as an ending - And more!
HOLY MOLY WE ACTUALLY GOT IT JUST DONE ENOUGH. There was very little sleep involved in the making of this product, and we had to cut alot of bonus scenes, but here it is: https://jahwffrey.itch.io/metaspace
Carefully choose conversations with a wacky band of powerful personalities. Build cities and towns to keep them happy when that doesn't work, and see how far you can get in the Hardcore mode!
The gods are always fighting about one thing or another, and as their fleet-footed messenger it’s your job to keep them happy or else they might throw an apocalyptic fit!
Carefully choose conversations with a wacky band of powerful personalities. Build cities and towns to keep them happy when that doesn’t work, and see how far you can get in the Hardcore mode!
The fate of the world holds ever in the balance, but I believe in you. Good luck!
Here we are figuring out how to use the free trial of Adobe Premier to see if we were even going to be able to get the greenscreen working at all. None of us knew how to do this before the jam began after all. It's amazing how far you get get on free trials if you only have 3 days anyway, although I suppose next time we do this we'll have to pay up.
And finally, for the cat points, here's the little monster who kept waking me up every night, and who wouldn't let me take notes in peace. But we love her of course.
Anyway, most of the rest of this went down basically the same way as all of you. Learned alot, got some things right and alot of things I'd like to change, but overall I'm really happy with the final product! If you have an opinion on it, I'd love to hear so we can make something even better next time!
Once again we had to find a way to transform a living room/dining room into a green screen studio. To get the lighting right we had to move all kinds of things about in several rooms of one of our houses, covering windows with heavy blankets and such by nailing them to the wall. 
We then had two people on editing/digitizing duty for the first time, which made the scale of what we accomplished at all possible. Besides just cutting out frames we also had to assign hitboxes and timings to the animations, so one of our team mates spend the entirety of Saturday doing just that for the enemies and characters. 
The game has 351 frames in it total at the end, although even with more members than usual we ended up working furiously right up to the time limit. The game has some jank to it and it's definitely harder than I'd hoped, but it's still pretty awesome. We spent the last couple hours playing it, tweaking it, and playing it again until we beat it satisfyingly, but it's definitely more balanced for COOP than for not.
We also had another programmer and 3d-modeller this year! CherryShroom made these great rendered backgrounds with parallax for us and implemented tons of great features, tying the world together. Overall, I'm really happy with what we accomplished and we definitely learned alot for next time. Give our game a shot if you want to beat us up, as us, and stay tuned for future ludum dares where we'll continue to try to figure out how to do this sort of thing even better.
