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New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:36 am
by kazade
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.


Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:50 am
by Anthony817
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!

Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:50 am
by SMiTH
thanks kazade

Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:24 am
by Ian Micheal
Really cool been watching this take shape amazing work :)

Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 7:39 am
by Nico0020
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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Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:08 pm
by Wrath of Khan
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

Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 12:10 pm
by Ryo Suzuki
It looks great!

I will try it soon.

Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 4:55 pm
by kazade
I've updated the post with a video by the most excellent @freakdave

Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 5:01 pm
by The-Amazing-Mr_V
This is looking awesome

Re: New Game! Swirling Blades: Desert Thunder

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:02 pm
by Wrath of Khan
Might I ask what improvements you have planned for this game