New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

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New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

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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.

Last edited by kazade on Wed Apr 08, 2020 2:17 pm, edited 3 times in total.

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Anthony817
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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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thanks kazade

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Really cool been watching this take shape amazing work :)

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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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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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It looks great!

I will try it soon.

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

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Post by The-Amazing-Mr_V »

This is looking awesome

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Post by Wrath of Khan »

Might I ask what improvements you have planned for this game

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