Hi Neo, Something I've just been wondering, will there be an option to not have the dpad visible on the screen?
I want the Dpad on the screen, playing geo society was horrible with the invisible faded dpad, i'd rather have it stick out like that.
I don't even know when the release date is at this point haha. As you'll see with this major update, I got side tracked from doing what I really wanted to work on. Remember - it's a one-man game. Aside from my commission artists, I do all the work. I don't have writers, or coders, or anything. A game of this scale takes time ha! Someone asked about the DPad opacity - yeah it can be changed in the options menu between 10 and 40% transparent. Was there any other questions? Time for the update..... Big graphical update. This was very stressful, but worth it. Let's see if you agree. Weekly update for week ending: June 15th 2012 At the start of the week, I was chatting away to Yoel, the OW artist for the game. I was getting some characters off him and he mentioned he was interested in doing some tile work. Yoel had previously done about 2 or 3 buildings for the game already, he is a talented (tile) artist, but his main role was character outfits, hairstyles, and facial animations. I said to him "Listen man. You have the freedom to change what you want." I sent him the resources, and right away he replied "Wow, there is a lot of mistakes on these tiles! The base is good, but the lighting, shading, and details are just done wrong". I got pretty excited. I was dying to see what he would change, remake, and revamp. He was also the artist behind the recent grass and "dirt path" tile upgrades. Adding more of his own tiles would only be complementary to the new ground tiles. To use the phrase "this guy went to town" would be an understatement. He touched everything. From trees, to bushes, to street objects, to full on buildings. Check these out: The intro scene shown before. A screenshot I posted on my facebook for my friends only a few days ago compared to the area now. Really is a major facelift. The graphics are still 480 by 320, but seem crisper and cleaner, thanks to the new style, better lighting, and better shading. We are still going strong. Next week, we plan on keeping up the assault. Sp keep your eyes peeled. So what did you do Neo?? Updating the resources was very time consuming. Some were straight copy and paste onto the tilesets for the game, and others forced me to remap the areas because of the changes. A big example of this is how curbs are now done. Code wise, I felt inspired to do justice to his work. I began adding in little animations for things. Very minor details like when the player steps on the shrubs. Adjusting the clouds system. I also worked on something that's a secret for now lol. I've been working on the battle system too. Adding little touches, speeding it up to make it faster, and more. I've also been having great fun building the game world right now. Adding the people, adding more easter eggs for people to find and notice, and in some cases, breaking the forth wall (you'll see what I mean when you talk to some NPCs lol). Then, of course, these punks took up my time. Had to teach them a lesson . That's it for this week. Hope you like all the graphic changes as much as I do. I think ZENFORMS: Protectors looks fantastic now. Even better! Enjoy!
Wow Neo your are doing a great job so far and it gets better the more you update the game. Keep up the good work i will support you all the way. This game is hoing to be an awesome pokemon-like game :^)
this is the reason why i dont want the game to come out just yet, cant wait to play it but the longer we wait the better it becomes.
Looks like a lot of hard work. I don't always play iOS games.. But when I do, I prefer to support guys like you.
This game looks really good!!!! Can't wait!!! Can you just walk around randomly and meet people? Are there legendaries? How bigs the map? How much monsters/ whatever are there? How do you use them ? How do you catch them? Too much questions?
Read before you post. It makes you look like an....well hopefully you can figure out what I was about to call you.
lol considering this is in the "upcoming iphone and ipod touch games" section, its pretty easy to guess it isnt out yet.
