Ex-Zodiac Development Update - September 2023Hey everyone, sorry for the radio silence! Ive been hard at work the past few months attempting to port Ex-Zodiac over to the latest version of the game engine I use. Ive wanted to move to the latest version for a while now, but I was waiting for it to become stable before doing so. Upgrading was important for a number of reasons, but the main ones were: future-proofing console support, editor stability and new features that enhance or speed up my work flow. Lots of little improvements have been made all across the engine and the editor, and this stuff all adds up, especially when it comes to time saving.
Most of you (probably) know the game is being built in Godot, and it originally started all the way back in version 2.1. Not long after, version 3.0 became available, and I decided to port the game over to that. At that time the game only had one level, so porting it over took about a week as I had to rebuild everything from scratch as there was no automatic conversion tool available. Thankfully there is one this time around and so that's handled a lot of the work for me, but there are still plenty of things that need manually fixing. Things like broken materials, animations not playing correctly and events not triggering etc. The good news is that the porting process is almost complete. There are still some rough edges to smooth out, but the bulk of the work is done, and that means I can finally get back to working on new content.
I want to thank you all for your patience and support so far, Im really grateful for that. Im looking forward to getting back to being creative again soon!
- Ben Hickling / MNKY
[ 2023-09-27 21:27:15 CET ] [ Original post ]
Ex-Zodiac
Ben Hickling
Developer
Pixeljam
Publisher
Early 2022
Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support
Overwhelmingly Positive
(698 reviews)
Ex-Zodiac is a fast-paced rail shooter with a stylized look reminiscent of early 90's 3D games. Join protagonist Kyuu as she fights to free the worlds of the Sanzaru Star System, overrun by the intergalactic terrorist organization known as Zodiac.
FEATURING:
- A retro, colourful, low-poly visual style
- 12 main levels (plus secret areas and side-paths)
- Multiple routes to complete the game
- Major bosses at the end of each level, each piloted by a member of the Zodiac
- A 16-bit style soundtrack by +TEK combining FM and wavetable synthesis
MINIMAL SETUP- OS: Any distribution
- Processor: 1 Ghz CPUMemory: 2 GB RAM
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Drivers with support for OpenGL 2.1
- Storage: 500 MB available space
8.29$ (17%)
33.99$ (16%)
33.97$ (15%)
13.34$ (11%)
21.24$ (15%)
16.59$ (17%)
16.97$ (15%)
16.57$ (17%)
9.16$ (77%)
25.19$ (16%)
41.49$ (17%)
22.24$ (11%)
8.47$ (15%)
4.95$ (17%)
16.97$ (15%)
8.89$ (11%)
52.75$ (12%)
16.96$ (15%)
8.89$ (11%)
11.04$ (15%)
7.64$ (15%)
8.25$ (17%)
12.67$ (15%)
17.95$ (70%)
24.89$ (17%)
17.59$ (12%)
16.79$ (16%)
2.81$ (81%)
16.97$ (15%)
4.12$ (17%)
0.6$ (85%)
2.55$ (91%)
1.0$ (80%)
0.43$ (91%)
3.4$ (66%)
0.6$ (85%)
5.6$ (53%)
1.7$ (91%)
3.26$ (78%)
3.48$ (83%)
7.44$ (79%)
1.5$ (85%)
0.75$ (85%)
6.8$ (83%)
3.52$ (65%)
11.68$ (53%)
9.37$ (63%)
0.9$ (92%)
7.2$ (64%)
4.05$ (73%)
2.85$ (81%)
0.75$ (85%)
4.25$ (79%)
4.46$ (70%)
0.85$ (91%)
7.5$ (70%)
10.12$ (71%)
8.25$ (67%)
2.13$ (79%)
4.5$ (85%)
FANATICAL BUNDLES
Time left:
16 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes
Time left:
356440 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes
Time left:
27 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes
Time left:
13 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes
Time left:
23 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes
Time left:
22 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes
Time left:
29 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes
Time left:
55 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes
HUMBLE BUNDLES
Time left:
13 days, 19 hours, 2 minutes
by buying games/dlcs from affiliate links you are supporting tuxDB
🔴 LIVE
quantumapprentice
Software and Game Development
C/C++ Finally getting back to my FO2 modding tool
eddesign
Road 96
Haciendo pruebas nomas // Noche de Chill & Relax
mikeymayhemtv
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Motion Controls in Rainbow Six Siege?!
hypnotik_games
Software and Game Development
Godoting Winning - !tts !anomalies !free_tts Raids:
tuxramus
The Lord of the Rings Online
LOTRO On Linux (Server: Brandywine)
ambivalentbunnie
Software and Game Development
LeetCode Daily - Do I even remember how to code? - !backseat
echoplexmedia
Politics
Downballot - Bay Area Local News - !downballot in chat for this week...
elementyle
Software and Game Development
Water Set Implementation