[Game] Songbringer (Star Wars meets Legend of Zelda)

natweiss · February 11, 2015, 3:52am

Hi all! Thought I’d share my latest cocos2d-x game project: Songbringer. It’s a roguelike / RPG akin to The Legend of Zelda but within a sci-fi world that is procedurally generated. Work in progress, maybe 6 or 9 months left. I’m having lots of fun making this game and even sharing daily live streams of the game’s C++, pixel art and music. The streams are all archived on Youtube as well.

nite · February 11, 2015, 4:18am

Man, this game looks amazing

natweiss · February 11, 2015, 4:19am

Thanks! Here’s a few more screens:

ricardo · February 11, 2015, 4:29am

wow, I love the graphics!

natweiss · February 11, 2015, 4:31am

Thanks! There’s a custom shader in effect which can use any number of light sources. Also going to work on an automatic normal mapping effect as well. Inspiration credit goes to the cocos2d_tests and all the awesome new 3d code you guys have been adding. Great work!

Toby · February 19, 2015, 9:09am

Those are damn fine graphics! Reminds me of Sword and Sworcery.

slackmoehrle · February 19, 2015, 2:41pm

This is awesome. I’ll watch your streams. Are you using v3.3? How about some technical details?

natweiss · February 19, 2015, 9:50pm

@Toby: thanks!

@slackmoehrle: Yep, using v3.3 via RapidGame (planning to upgrade RG to v3.4 soon).

Some technical details. Well, I started mostly from scratch on the game’s engine, writing a simple struct-based entity component system in C++. Using an ECS has revolutionized the way I think about making games. I do plan on releasing it on Github once I do the last bit of performance improvements (just replacing maps with plain old arrays).

I do share a bit about the ECS in this video at around minute 7.

slackmoehrle · February 19, 2015, 11:25pm

Cool I will give it a watch tonight. If you can I’d love to see more about you struct-based ECS.

natweiss · February 19, 2015, 11:56pm

Ok, will focus on that a little in the next video.

stevetranby · February 20, 2015, 12:28am

Looks sweet man! This motivates me to work on a LoZ dungeon-only game (more like gauntlet) I need to finally work on and finish.

natweiss · February 20, 2015, 12:55am

Sweet! Love to see it.

natweiss · February 20, 2015, 9:23pm

@slackmoehrle: The ECS was discussed last night in this video at around 2:15.

slackmoehrle · February 21, 2015, 12:45am

Thanks @natweiss . I will watch it this weekend!

nite · February 24, 2015, 12:31am

Rapid game is awesome!

slackmoehrle · February 24, 2015, 12:47am

@natweiss - Thanks for doing the YT video. It was super informative to see how you are architecting this.

natweiss · February 24, 2015, 12:56am

Thanks! An update is coming out today which adds a pure cocos2d-x template and a fix for building on windows.

natweiss · February 24, 2015, 12:57am

Glad it was informative!

slackmoehrle · February 24, 2015, 1:01am

This makes me want to do a YT series.

stevetranby · February 24, 2015, 1:55am

@natweiss @slackmoehrle agreed, great videos, also makes me want to do the same
I’ve enjoyed seeing how you built your entity-component system, having used Unity’s and having attempted to refactor some of my core game characters into components.