New Project: Binary Blaster

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With Resistor now on the XBox Live Indie Marketplace, I decided to start a new project.  I created the design a few weeks ago of a game where the player defeats enemies by shooting them in binary code.

Modeling

Tonight I brushed up on my Blender skills, since I want to use rendered models for the game.  For now, I still plan on it being a 2D game using sprites, but I’ll use rendered sprites instead of a making the graphics with a sprite editor.

The Wikibooks site has a really great tutorial for creating a simple model, which I worked through a long time ago.  It was helpful to do this again, especially since the last version of Blender I used was before 2.5.

In a small amount of time, I was able to create a simple humanoid figure.

 

Now I’m getting into new territory with bones.  I’ve tried moving models before in previous games without using bones, but it was a huge headache and didn’t look very good.  After working through the one page tutorial on Wikibooks, my model was moving with the bones pretty well.

 

Resistor – On Sale Now for XBLIG

Buy Resistor from Xbox.com 

Resistor is now on sale in the XBox Live Indie Game Marketplace.  Try the trail version for free, and if you like it all 90 levels can be unlocked for $1 (80 Microsoft Points).

From the XBox dashboard, go to Games > Browse Games > Indie > A-Z > R > Resistor

You can also find Resistor in the Puzzle & Trivia Genre section

Thanks to everyone for following the development of Resistor!