One man job. Ryan created the engine while building Necro, and now he's just built the game himself. His wife helps with some of the voice acting (I think), but besides that its all him. Pretty crazy!
Wow I really hope it's good. Don't disappoint me guys I'm counting on you I can't wait for this!! And so are alot of other people. I think they just aren't familiar with the TA forums
@TheThinIce It's pretty dang fun. It's not quite polished to a T like NOVA 2, but then again, NOVA 2 doesn't have 50 levels and a ton of different weapons. This is a deep game. Then again, there are some annoyances with it, but I'm going to try to help Ryan fix them before release. And I personally don't have a Retina Device, but the testers that do have one say that it looks good. Not Infinity Blade good, but sharp.
All right, good luck with that, don't want to disturb you from your work also glad to hear that this game has a lot of depth.
Ok well I've noticed the dev soul dragoon here has an iPhone 3GS, I'd really appreciate it if I saw some 4th gen retina screenshots or even videos. Also I hope the skills bar being placed on the side of the screen works for me. I've been playing aralon where the skills bar is at the bottom, that is where things like skills bars are usually placed anyways.
The game looks very nice on retina display, I don't think the game was based on HD graphics since it's been in production for a while but it does look sharp and crisp. As for the HUD, you can reposition EVERY single thing, all the buttons and item/skill slots can be moved around the screen. There's also a buttton to switch between three layouts so you can have all your active skills on one screen, all your passive ones on another and so on, you can do anything you want. The game is more of an RPG, you level up and when you're strong enough you can take on the boss, or you can just run pass him and go down to the next level and get your butt kicked, think Diablo but in FPS. Huge amount of loots, smooth controls, it's the kind of game you can play for hours! One thing about this game being made by one man is that the game is not getting a lot of publicity since most of the time is spent making the game and not so much promoting it. I would really like to see TouchArcade preview it, especially now that things are a little slow. Until then anyone can feel free to ask questions here, I'll be more than happy to answers them since I've played it quite a bit, most testers are from here anyway. And yes, there's a potato gun in the game (MrSpud!)
Here's an unofficial list of all the items, just to give you an idea of the scope of the game. It includes skills, weapons and summons I believe. It doesn't even include the armour pieces! MEDICAL SUPPLIES SEAL OF MANA SHIELD HEALTH CONVERT" VAMPIRIC BLEED" DRAIN SOUL IGNITION MASER MELTDOWN SOUL CRUSH MIND BOMB PSYCHIC PUSH ICE BOLT FLAMING GRASP ELECTRIC GRASP INFECTION ICY GRASP VENGEANCE ADRENAL RUSH NOOGARDLOUS BALL LIGHTNING AXIOM OF CARNAGE NOVA ZEMBLA TOWN PORTAL DOOM'S EYE SINGLE HANDED RAGE REACH CHAIN DETECT TRAP HEAL BLOCK PARRY ARMOR TALENT VITALITY VIGOR ENERGY BOLT ENERGY WAVE ENERGY BEAM FIRE BOLT ENERGY PHANTASM FIRE PHANTASM TURRET PISTOL BLOOD BOLT RESSURECTION OF REYEM NEAS QUICK SWIPE DUEL WIELD SEAL OF BEAST_EXPLOSION SEAL OF CATACLYSM SEAL OF HEAVENS WARD SEAL OF DEATH SEAL OF THE CROSS SEAL OF THE PLAUGE SEAL OF QUAKE SEAL OF RAGE_BOMB SEAL OF REFLECT SEAL OF REGEN SEAL OF THORNS SEAL OF THE VOID Ballistics Ammo Energy Ammo Electric Rain Rifle Chain Plasma Rifle Chain Spiker Rifle Chain Gun Rifle 12 Guage Shotgun Frost Pistol Fire Pistol Plasma Pistol Macerator Pistol Double Lazer Sword Single Lazer Sword Single Fire Sword Single Plasma Sword Double Fire Sword Double Plasma Sword Double Hole Sword Vibra Sword Edge Sword Carving Sword Sliver Sword CRIMSON DAWN The Hitcher Mr Spud Single Plasma Axe Double Plasma Axe Single Fire Axe Double Fire Axe Single Lazer Axe Double Lazer Axe Single Macerator Axe Double Macerator Axe Single Scythe Axe Double Scythe Axe Plasma Rifle Tachyon Rifle .223 Rifle .308 Rifle .30_06 Rifle .410 Rifle Blood Rifle Flame Thrower Rocket Launcher Fire Crossbow Lazer Crossbow Plasma Crossbow DOOM Bow .22 Pistol .38 Pistol .357 Pistol .45 Pistol PHASER Micro Grenade L. Spiker Blood Pistol Short Sword Long Sword Katana Death's Spike Hand Axe Warrior Axe Battle Axe Blood Axe SMALL GRENADE Buckler Plasma Buckler Fire Buckler Shield Plasma Shield Fire Shield Bulwark Plasma Bulwark Fire Bulwark Rampart Plasma Rampart Fire Rampart Aegis Plasma Aegis Fire Aegis FIRE_SPEED STUN LIFE DRAIN DAMAGE RETURN ROCKET FIRE BALL ACID ENERGY DRAIN PLASMA STUN BOMB BEAST EXPLOSION INFERNO PLANET QUAKE RIFT UNFREEZE TIMERS INVINCIBLE RUN SPEED SHORT STUN AREA HELL RIFT
That's a Dev list. Names might be changing soon and more may be added, but those are all in as of now. New build today and things are getting to where everything is starting to really flow.
Hey all barely anytime to post lately.. but that was a debug list =)..good stuff.. Those are the base items each item can have 3 modifiers that also modify the look of the item from stocks to barrels... I will try to get back here soon and post some links to images to all the base items and armors with random modifiers... for now back to spit shining the polish =) P.S. I have some great testers and almost all of them are from touch arcade a really rocking place...
A tasty shot while I test In reyems level running from a horde of bad guys...I have no idea how many are on screen but it is playing great on a 3G or Edge device...
Oh my god can somebody please post some retina display screens I need some so bad!!!! P.S. its too bad you are working alone on this soul dragoon, if you had a team to work on the graphics while you just focus on gameplay, that would have made the game just even more amazing!
Good luck with that!! If Mission Eyropa sells well you might just get your chance. Working/leading with a team is always better than working alone in my opinion. Dang, I wish I was beta testing this game.
I agree I have made games professionally for over a decade this is one of my solo attempts =). Actually I gotta say.. if you see some later parts in the game you might be impressed.. graphically it is not Infinity blade.. but I have to support 30+ bad guys on screen not 2. So trade offs were made. I was trained artistically before I got my masters in C.S. So you be the the judge.. =).. I think it came down to more of a time issue.. still I think it is one of the better looking fps games... and a BILLION times more deep . Again who has that many on screen? Humility is always best though and I cannot wait to see what people think -) Here goes over a year of my life! =P
