Hack24

HACK24 : Submitted

Posted on by burf2000

2014-07-06 22.27.38

 

Finally, a month and a week late, the first version of Hack24 has been submitted.  Emotional moment, trying to write even a simple MMO single handedly is a massive task, trying to do it in a month with a family and full time job, is practically impossible.  I did it in 2 months 🙂

I will write more on it soon, enjoying a beer at the moment.

Version 1.0 supports (I wanted to call it 0.1):

Hacking, buying, entering, claiming from buildings

Scanning and Robbing players

Items allow players to teleport, scan, brute force hack, enter buildings, shield, speed up and invisibility.

I will be updating the website, and writing a how to play guide 🙂

 

 

Hack24 : Oh boy its coming!

Posted on by burf2000

So I had planned to release Hack24 for the end of May and as we are mid June, I failed!  Its pretty hard to make a MMO in a month part time.

Since I lasted blogged about the project  I have done the following.

  • Improved FPS even on older devices by optimising what is rendered
  • Items now spawn and players can collect items
  • Speed, Money, hacking items can now be used
  • Player can now gain XP and level up
  • Added icon

Main items left to do

  • Be able to teleport (new idea)
  • Be able to buy items
  • Quests / missions
  • Player interaction
  • Add help
  • Finish iPhone UI

I hope to at least submit to Apple by the end of the month

Hack24 MMO : We have trees!

Posted on by burf2000

I had planned to do more updates but I have been trying to finish the v0.1 of the game for the end of May.  To be honest it is probably not going to happen however I am making good progress 🙂 What can you do so far?

  1. Game has 10 different types of buildings/ world objects
  2. You can see other players in the game
  3. You can buy and hack building to give you XP, Money
  4. Brought buildings you can enter and you can claim money from them
  5. HUD display shows you your buildings, free buildings and other player buildings
  6. Exploring gives you XP
  7. More XP, the higher LVL you are and the better hacker you become

2014-05-28 13.00.09   2014-05-28 12.59.16 Whats next?

  1. Scan and rob players
  2. Spawn random items for people to collect
  3. Be able to buy items
  4. Implement item properties (shield, lives, invisibility etc)
  5. Fix collision
  6. Quests / Missions
  7. BUG FIXING

GAME JAM 2

Posted on by burf2000

So, on the 2nd of May we had our second Compsoft Game Jam.  I use the term loosely as we don’t follow any format but to have fun.

The first Game Jam we had was based on creating a game with 24 hours based on a randomly picked theme.  This was mega fun and spawned (from me) Disjointed Tunnels (Android) and Stupid Chicken (iOS) which are both released.  Other people made some awesome games on different platforms.  We decided 24 hours was a little hard work straight after work (yes we go to work before these) and decided the next one was 12 hours.

The other changes to this one was that instead of starting new projects (the main point of a Game Jam), most of us would continue on projects that we are passionate about.

There where 8 of us this time (from 5),  listed below are the projects

  • Hack24 (mine) is a 3D MMO game in an endless world where you hack buildings and aim to be top hacker.
  • Augmented Reality draughts (new).
  • Nought & Crosses but in a multiple grid system like Sudoku (new)
  • A full blown network / game engine thats massively scaleable.
  • A flappy birds clone
  • A postman frenzy type game (new)
  • A spaceship shooter game
  • Web based space shooter / resource game

As you can see, some of these projects are quite large which leads me on to my next post about Hack24.

The general feedback was that people really enjoyed it, I think in some ways it lacked the special feeling of creating something completely new based on a random theme however when someone is passionate about a project, they really churn out the code.