-- Lanna -- development blog

My team just finish a project named Lanna (but according to the design document it's name is Wild of Wars which doesn't make much sense). And of course we choose to use Torque game engine. This project took us about two month to do with the amount of 4 people in our team. The team is consist with one - project manage (also a programmer , sound engineer and a particle designer ) , two programmers , and one 2D artist (you might be thinking were is the modeler and animator , huh). Almost every resources used in the game were made just for this game , it is because of the design documents that made us unable to buy models for this game. And it was our company policies that made us unable to hire a freelance modeler, so the models and animations were done by a programmer's work. So here are some screenies and details from the project.

This is the title and the credit page. In the title page we use the cg water resource and our cg glow effect to make it brighter. On the right is the credit page .


Here is one of intro story picture before playing the game. The language we used in the game is Thai language and was easily put into Torque.



On the left is the player's inventory system and the save-load game system. And on the right is the dialog system we use trough out the game. You could see the hero's hand is on fire, for this effect we use Torque's stock ShapeBaseImage and Particle with a little modification so the particle's could always be rendered.


This is some of the in-game screenies. The game is Action-Rpg the player could basically play in a first-person view or third-person view. This is one of the levels I like most, where the Ai would hide behind the stones in the mission and attack you when you turn your back on them.


The hero could select 4 weapons to use 3 of them are firing weapons and one is a melee weapon. First we use the Realm War melee resource to do the melee attacking system, it turn out to be very hard for us to export the models to do the animations correctly (remember we didn't have any modelers or animators) and even when the animation was exported correctly we couldn't change the time scale to make the weapon hit the player. So we had to do the melee attacking system by ourselves and got some good results from it, but still if you are going to do a melee system, Realm War is a good place to start.


In this picture you could tell that the camera isn't Torque stock camera. The camera is one of the elements in the game we spend most of our time on. And it really paid off, the camera really bring more dynamic to the game.


The last picture here are some fighting screenies. We made some tribe houses and objects to put in our mission but for some reason it was taking a lot of frame-rate so all of the interior couldn't be put in the game(they were all low ploygons). Even until now I still don't know why the interiors in the starter.fps didn't have any problem droping in our game(it was just a test we didn't put any starter.fps interiors in our game ), but why ours were taking alot of frame-rate.


So, done with the development blog of Lanna. After we finish this project we all decided to quit working for our company. We all felt we love making games but disappointed on how our company is making it. So, now I guess I am on a long vacation until I think of something to do. That would be absolutely making another game. :)

Aun.