WarShip (Ocean and battlestations)

[ufna]

Hi All

I'm glad to present our little project about WarShips. Please, exuse my English

Project description

MMO-action with elements of RPG, shooter and strategy. To win the battle a team must capture and hold the opponent’s base (a flag), or to kill all opponents. There is no repawn (if killed – you are killed before the end of the battle, you can at that time or watch a fight, or enter into another fighting with other ship). Possible clan duel mode "dock to dock" - if your ship is killed, you can enter in the same battle until it ended with another ship of yours.

Features:
- Arcade at a high level of realism and visual special effects (as a very high quality simulator)
- Very high content reuse
- simulation of the MMO (though really - Multiplayer) due to the lack of separate rooms for the players (the player simply presses "fight," and distributes it to avtobalansed battle with suitable contenders)
- unique setting (almost)
- a combination of shooter with a lower dynamics of the battle than in the classic shooter

Screenshorts

Look at http://www.indiedb.com/games/seacraft

Video

Look at http://www.indiedb.com/games/seacraft
Last one: http://youtu.be/-h795SUTUOc

So

We are looking for critics, maybe ideas and partnership

Thanks,
UFNA team

[KartoonHead]

Great progress guys! Love it. Watching your video I have to say that your game is great to look at, except for one thing; the boats don't seem to bob with the ocean, it's more like they're on wheels and rolling along a flat surface just below the surface of the water, not a huge game-breaking issue, it's just a little immersion-breaking. Love the ocean shader btw, would like to get a look at how that's put together

Martin.

[strangelet]

wow that looks fantastic - are you using a fluid surface or something with shaders for the ocean?

[ufna]

Thank, guys!

the boats don't seem to bob with the ocean, it's more like they're on wheels and rolling along a flat surface just below the surface of the water, not a huge game-breaking issue, it's just a little immersion-breaking.

Yes, it will be fixed in next build - it's one of the gordian knots of this project, but "solved"

are you using a fluid surface or something with shaders for the ocean

Both of it

[KingCobra]

Wow, that looks fantastic. Only glaring issue is the HUD but Im gonna go ahead and guess that those are placeholders

[MatiasCastro]

Need original music?

[Red Ocktober]

just ran up on this... and i agree, it looks fantastic...

i'm also working on a naval sim and after years of frustration, am also considering the UDK...

will be following this with great interest...

[Enlighten]

Love the original concept and the visuals look great! Keep up the awesome work.

[Boshko Savich]

Looks good to me, but if im going to be picky i would say, maaaybe will be interesting if u make this thing (on the back-down side of the boat what makes boat to go left n right, not sure about right name for this) to rotate when u going left or right with boat .

[ufna]

A little video update: http://youtu.be/-h795SUTUOc

[Havoc89]

Looks very cool. Great job.

[Max Power]

This looks great. Ships look good, ocean is nice, overall feel and particles everywhere.

Only critique: I'd completely distance yourself from the "MMO" stigma. Since you clearly state it's not in the description, and it's attached to project failure and nutjob hobbiests. It's false advertising.

[ufna]

Thank you, guys!

[GARYOSAVAN]

Great project.

[vahid67]

very nice ...
how you create sea ??

[Boshko Savich]

personally i will pay a little more attention on particle systems in game , u know , now looks like u r get particle systems from illusion software. U kno what i mean? Looks to much 2d when i wach clip on utube (smoke & water splashes) also i believe fire need to be a little more transparent. But all of this what i we say is just a little bit of tweaking,nothing more ,i believe. Another thing what i believe will be nice thing to have is: fire give light, right? Check SeaCraftAlpha 2:06 , so i will add some light in fire specially for night battle. But u got a good wave

[ufna]

Boshko Savich, you're right, we will pay more attention to particles in future Today most of particles are "only for test".

The bottleneck of SeaCraft is ocean - it is hard part, which need a lot of attention to make it fast on low-end computers with good quality. It is not a problem to make a cool ocean for high-end hardware, but this way is bad for online games.