Just some particle tests as we proceed with the development of our basic prototype.
The idea is to have some nice particle trails attaced to moving “objects”.
The more the object is dangerous, the more the trail will be visible, informing the player that a direct impact is a very bad idea.
We have a very simple damage calculation damage based on mass and speed, this value of potential damage (as it is now is simply the momentum of our objects) will drive the visibility of our “danger trails”.

At the moment we are building a better phisical model of our “tractor beam”; as soon as it’s working properly we will start doing some test throwing stuff at targets.
These tests will help us identify what damage values we are going to have in-game and from these tests we will get some nice statistics that will be the basis of our game balance.

Drone starship! Animated.

We are working on a very simple game to better understand Unity.
This title will be the first game born from the ideas thet we call the “Lancelot Project”. Basically it’s the creation of a sci-fi fictionary world that we can use as basis and reference for some of our games.
This game will be an arena shooter where you can’t shoot, bad guys can. You can just throw stuff, so nothing new here, it’s G, with single player.

However with our plans completely screwed up again, we needed a plan B in order to continue pursuing our objectives.
Unity 3D is our plan B.
We dont’ have the resources to build our game engine anymore, and we were growing tired of some of the shortcomings of XNA, like the lack of “serious” portability and updates.

Unity is free, runs even an a wooden log, and best of all has already built-in all the tools and importers we were working so hard to build from scratch.
With little more then one coder left (one day I will enlighten you with the secret of fractional coders) this allows us to focus on doing the games we wanted to make, intead of just building tools and engines.

I’m removing some of the XNA-related content we had on the website, the guy who was working on that stuff vanished into thin air … and this makes us unable to answer you questions and requests on the subject.

We ‘ll keep you posted on Lancelot and the other stuff we are doing with the next update. :D

Things are happening really fast here at the Evil Stronghold. Terrains, rendering prototypes, animations, we are working super hard on our new engine.
We are also trying to focus primarly on one of the two projects we are prototyping… the hard part will be to decide wich one comes first!

Also … As soon as I stop writing game-design documents we will have some artworks to show :P

Studio Goodness is born!

(<_<)!

But enough with this! What about our games?
As I write down this post, the rest of the team (read: the coders) are at work designing our new engine and tools.
At the moment we are focused on our level editor and on testing a network p2p structure that should allow multiplayer matches for our games. Yup, games. Plural. Lancelot AND another one.

But it’s not all! Using our secret ninja techniques, we will be able to send our evil shadow clones to another event a the Cineteca Comunale in Bologna. One of the historical italian development companies, “Simulmondo” is holding a reunion, and we are honorured to be their guests.

On a side note, the international beta of enua online has been released. Give it a try, it’s a simple strategic browser game, realtime, no boring tables :P.
The game is not directly built from Studio Evil but several people from our team worked on it, so … let us know waht you think!

I did, and I should have done it way earlier. Our pages were full of incorrect informations about our projects and team status, and I feel the urge to apologize.

Our website was reporting we were still developing out old projects IMPACT! and Polpette, which sadly is not true.

Since the beginning of this year, we started everyting (well almost everything) from scratch and we are now working on entirely new projects.

You should now find that our website is more in-line with who we are and what we are actually doing.

Pre-production for our new project, codenamed “Lancelot”, is advancing.
It’s still a draft, but as the concept takes shape we become more and more confident about the possible results.

Wish us luck! :D