“The quest for Harmony of space, time and matter has paved the way for road-less passageways to distant points of our solar system and beyond. We welcome the Era of Equalization.”
-Nicholas H. Orion, Harmonizing Theory Pioneer and Chief Harmonizing Engineer of the Galactic Star Squadron
Utilizing the harmonizing theories of aerospace pioneers, humans were able to manipulate the space-time continuum with the Orbs of Orion to explore the far reaches of the cosmos. Once the powerful but unpredictable energies of these orbs are attuned to the energy of the ship’s holding bays, the ship’s power core is synchronized to the space-time environment of that galaxy. By achieving perfect Harmony with that galaxy, the ship is able to traverse immeasurable distances quickly.
It is your duty as the Harmonizing Energy Specialist aboard the GSS Equilibria to attend to the ship’s energy requirements. Using your own body’s energy, guide the imbalanced Orbs of Orion into the disintegration vortex to balance the holding bays and achieve the next level of Harmony. Once full Harmonization has occurred, the ship can travel through space and time to further explore new planetary locations. Remember, every planet will have its own space-time atmosphere and this will uniquely affect the properties of the Orbs of Orion. May harmony steady your wings.
-Excerpt from The Galactic Star Squadron Harmony Manual
Full Retina Display Graphics and Animations
100+ Original Puzzles
Simple but Challenging Game Play
Special Orbs with Unique Effects
Changing Environmental Effects
Multiple Solutions to Discover
Solve Puzzles in the Fewest Rounds Possible
Finish Quickly for Time Bonuses
High Score Leader Boards and Achievements on Game Center
Updates with New Levels to Master
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The more time I spent programming, the more I discovered I DIDN'T know and I began to look at game engines. The goal was to find an extendable, preferably open source (I am a huge OSS advocate), cross-platform engine that would allow me to develop the best possible product for my team in the least amount of time.
After doing a fair amount of research on this topic, I found Orx was really the only engine that fit all these criteria. I committed to using it for my team's first 2D project.
Equilibria is a space travel-themed puzzle game that will mark both mine and my new team's first venture into indie game development.
And I hope we'll be able to improve it over time, so don't hesitate to submit your requests.
As for Equilibria, I'm really looking forward to seeing more. If you're looking for beta testers, I'd be happy to help with that!
Here are some teaser images. These are actually Photoshop mockups rather than actually gameplay images, but I'm working hard this weekend to change that.
Equilibria has you working with energy on different planets. Here's the planet selection screen:
And the level selection screen:
More info to come soon.
(Sorry for the jerky video. I could not make CamStudio record it more smoothly.)
Looking forward to seeing some blinking stars in the background, maybe with some spawners+FXs?
Also, I think I've worked out my codec issues. I was able to get this video smoother.
Anyway, what we wanted was the ability to do transitions from one scene to another. In this example, the doors on the space ship you are commanding close on the current screen. Then the next screen is created and the doors open to reveal it.
This turned out being a lot easier to implement than I had originally thought, thanks to the config system and Orx's event system. I use Orx config to give the planet object a custom Action list with two items, SetNextScene and AddFX. Then my input manager uses that data to actually do those things.
Finally, I have a scene event handler that catches orxFX_EVENT_REMOVE on the door closing event and changes screens at that time.
I also like the last second of the video which gives us a glimpse of what looks like very clean code.
@Grey: I will take you up on that offer, thank you. At the moment we plan to release for Android right after iOS. I'll start building for Android when we're a little closer, because I want to have screen resolution and aspect ratio independency even before iOS release.
Logged in but I get a thumbnail instead of a video, which I guess means you're not working right now. What??? Not even 1AM and you're not working anymore?? :P
Although I was impressed with how easy it is to configure twitch.tv and Xsplit to stream your desktop.
Any forum members that would like to try the first test version for iPhone/iPod 4 and 3, please send me the UDID of your device. Testing is scheduled to begin in the next week or so if things continue to go well.
Best of luck for Ant Eye Games then!
I'll send you my iPod 3G UDID soon. Are you going to use something like TestFlight?
Thanks in advance to the testers.
I recently implemented a "swipe" or "flick" gesture using a custom Orx event. My Touch input module processes touch start and touch end events. If the user exceeds a threshold distance of finger movement in one direction while the finger is down, the event handler recognizes that as a "swipe" and raises a custom swipe event with the necessary parameters. The custom event is processed by the game code.
This is used to scroll user interface elements. E.g. for scrolling between pages of levels or scrolling through a list of instructions.