August Haha!

Hello visitor, last time we met I didn't have any hope to continue work on my project cause I really got frustated on reworking the game from beginning to the end because of instability of the engine(it's pretty stable now), ladies and gentlemen, it's Construct! You may have heard about Minitroid Demo



So the author made this game in Construct! Must admit he's working much better with the program than me. He found an optimal decision for his fan game - pixel graphics, while I tried to make it HD. Years passed and only now I started to understand what should I really do to achieve a good result! Still thinking out how to finish the game without needing to rewrite it from scratch again! D: I'm also thinking about making my own game from this, so probably it won't be X-Child anymore! I suspect it will be something like A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda, but easier and PC only(great pity).

Another inspiration was a video of an untitled Unity based game which made me happy, just look at how their hero looks much like mine! :D This is awesome! So I decided to return my mind back and get to work... NOW!

Bad News

Sorry for being away for too long, I didn't do what I promised because of engine instability and my laziness. I'm currently busy with a musicial project http://www.indiegogo.com/Ultra-Pack , so I'll get back to work on early December. Btw I improved my style a lot since July, here's a pic from my commercial project

New details about the game itself: there will be WASD+Mouse, not ZX+arrows, gun will be controlled with a mouse, so gameplay will change a lot. That's all.

June Demo!

The very first version of tech demo is ready! It's very small and there are not so many features, however it's way better than no demo at all.

Soooo, the demo is just one room with player and test bot.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1306951/Demo%200.01.rar

System requirements:

PS 2.0 support
Latest DX9
1.8 Ghz
GeForce 6600 would be fine

From this day I'll be publishing tech demos once a month. Cheers and do not forget to become my follower, subscribe to RSS and spread a word about this project. Cheers! :)

April Late News!

Hello visitor and welcome to my blog again! I was away, working in my studio! Btw check this out - http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/04/Overgrowth-Heavy-Metal-Song-by-George-Dziov#disqus_thread! Sooooo, about the project:

Official release date announced - June, 10!!!
The demo features basic movement, ball mode, shooting functions, and one experimental level with test enemies at Earth Galactic Research Center! Meet ya there! :)
System Requirements:
AMD Athlon 1800 Ghz or higher;
128 MB video card(GeForce 6600 goes quite well);
Latest DirectX 9 drivers;
Good mood :)

I'll add some details in my May post. Hooray, I'm in busyness again! :D

January

Hey visitor! How do you do? Was a very cool Xmas, nah? I had a cool Xmas too! Lots of work as usual, got some new clients and that means new recordings. ;p Still cannot add a "News" word to my post header because I still have no news for you - very hard to work with an unfinished engine plus I'm thinking about reducing texture sizes - they've gone too heavy. The demo plays with 640x480 windowed resolution and lags a little bit but I don't think that's a great prob for me so I suspect there will be some news in February. Not saying goodbye, maybe I'll write something else this month. See ya! :)

December

Hello visitor! Long time no see! I decided to call this post "December", just "December" because there are no news at all. I still have a lot of job to do(many clients want to record their songs for Christmas), in short, no progress at all. You'll probably ask me why am I still posting. The project is not dead and still waiting for it's refreshing. I simply don't want to cancel this project because I know it will be awesome. I will not make any surprises this Christmas but I hope to bring you the demo on January(almost whole January is free for me). Cheers visitor and don't lose your hope! Meet ya next year ;)

November News!

Hi there, it's me again!
Yeah it was a great failure... but I'm back! With some new powers I'll continue work on Metroid: The X-Child!
Plus: I've started a dev blog recently - be sure to check it out! There is not much information yet but some projects are waiting for their release already! While being out of Metroid fan game I've completed two projects already! Their release dates are not known yet but I hope it'll be rather soon.
Cheers!