GID J ENTRY

Ok, so here goes for my Game In a Day entry for GID J (www.gameinaday.com)

So my entry was a quick and dirty prototype for an idea I had.

I started by doing the most fun bit first, which was making the title screen.



Then I took some time doing the port of Rob and Eric (and others) Horsie pack to 1.4, which didnt take long :) Which left me with my starting point.

After verifying that it worked, I went on to incorporate some steering behaviors from the AI pack and voila! there is my game.

The game is called EXTREME HORSES! ok, so its not quite in line with the original theme, lets call it artistic license.

The basic premise started out with AI based battle horses, only I had some trouble mounting a working turret on the horses, so I figured I'd try out some steering and see if a horse herding concept would work instead (not quite as extreme, but then its family friendly now).




Easy peasy really. Horse pack, AI pack, a bit of tweaking and there you go.

Only, its not really fun. I think I'm going to have to optimise the horses a bit so I can have several hundred and see if that doesnt help give a feeling of scale. Also I need some large open spaces and "rope" mode which acts like a grapple hook on fleeing horses.

I guess with a bit more work it could be used as a ranching sim, which could be quite unique!

Phil.