Bounty Hunt (Working Title)
 

Hi guys, figured I'd post about this little project I'm working on with a friend and see what you guys think.

http://i.imgur.com/KoIwm6y.gif

Online Multiplayer Arena fighter - Bounty Hunt

The premise of this game is to fight and collect money. Everyone trying to get more gold than everyone else. One hit deaths, etc.. Along the lines of games like Tower Fall.

Abilities are basic, attack and evade, possibly a 3rd unique ability depending on character type. Extremely easy to pick up, with a high skill curve in certain parts of the game.

The artist will be creating a few different biomes, island/jungle/mountain/ice etc -- There will be boss fights and mobs, where you fight for more gold and gems, and rare drops. You will be able to pick up items that have their own special features like shooting projectiles, gold magnets, better swords, movement boosts, shields, etc..

Your progress is based entirely on the amount of "bounty" you collect. (More on this later)

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Still working out a lot of details, but would definitely like to see if this sounds like a fun game to play.

Here are the pictures of some sprites (zoomed in 2x)

http://empireeden.com/uploads/3/2/2/...3_orig.png?275

Development is in early stages yet, but we'll be targeting Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android and Browsers.

Here's an animation of a parallax prototype I've been playing with.

http://imgur.com/WEzeNs1.gif

All of the art is by FlyGuy.

If there's interest I can keep this thread updated. Anyway, thoughts?

nice can tell allot of work is being put into this looks awesome!

Looks solid, gief beta access.

Granted

Something that actually has me hooked! :D Looks good (: Who is the artist making all of the pixel art?

If you're a PixelJoint user, you've probably heard of him.

Wow. I completely missed you stating who it was.

Anyways, looks great! :D The tiny sprites look pretty fun to make.

Sexy. Is this using the game engine you've been working on?

"Booty Arena" sounds better :[

Yep. It's inspired by the Graal workflow, (RC, Scripting, FileBrowser, etc) with improvements wherever I could think to add them.

I'll probably be posting an engine showcase soon.

I would play this

Looks pretty cool.

But the game seems pretty boring.

From what I'm getting, all you do is kill people for their money.

Somewhat of an allegory of Downtown Chicago.

But hey, improvements can always made.

Ps. The sprites for the characters look amazing.

So this looks entertaining! DO follow through with custom character traits. This is multiplayer, but is this mmorpg styled, or small server styled? Or player hosted? Confused on that part.

MMO style.

Is this on PC or iOS/Android? Because local multiplayer on iOS for its type of game sounds awesome.

Edit: disregard, I suck at reading. Looks great regardless, keep up the good work!

I'm overly excited for this.

I wanna play!

NOW. I really want to try making these cute sprites. They look really fun to make.

That pixel art is beautiful

Beautiful. I an in love with the sprites (especially the star wars)

I would play this game. It looks like a lot of fun.

11/10 would play

Here's an in-game teaser.

http://i.imgur.com/q5FwPMs.png

My god. That landscape looks freaking sick. I hope you have some good ideas for this game. I can list up a whole lot to keep me interested in this. Looks sick AF.

Needs more attention. I'm actually gonna play around with landscapes from now on because if anything, they are really inspiring.

Hey guys. I'm the artist for this game. I wanted to show you guys a small update http://i.imgur.com/PaaEVa9.png\
(Still heavily work in progress art here)

Also thought I'd let everyone know I am now live streaming my pixel art work. Follow the development here http://www.twitch.tv/hahayeahdude

I will be streaming daily, unless I'm making some super secret final release art (secret weapons, arenas, etc)

BTW, Jatz is doing an amazing job with the code!

It looks really sick!

Holy F**K. Amazing pixels

Update: FlyGuy has been working hard on the art, it's looking absolutely amazing. Meanwhile I've been working on the code. The server code is about 80% complete, and I've shifted my focus to the client. I wanted to ask you guys. How many people would be interested in participating in a closed alpha, and If so, what OS are you running?

The platforms I'm focusing on currently are Windows and Linux (Ubuntu 32bit/64bit), and possibly Mac OSX. After I've completed these platforms I'll be focusing on iOS and Android.

I just want to get an idea of which platforms to focus on for an alpha test, so if you could let me know so I can get an idea of who's using what platform, that'd be great.

THATS AWESOME! I WOULD LOVE TO BETA TEST
sexy graphics too! just fix the perspective problems with the chests.

any updates?

Thanks for the compliments on the art. As far as perspective on the chests goes, the overall perspective for the game is already really bizarre. Being able to see the background while also looking top down is impossible but might make for a new and cool visual experience. Maybe seeing the crates animated in game will help with that

Check these out, hope this changes your mind! :)

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Wait till you see the cool light effect i'm working on for when you open the chest and gold/gems start spraying up into the air.. The pirate looking chest and key on the far right are rares. They will drop some very special loot.

Also, about the ALPHA testing that Jatz is talking about... depending on how much help you provide as a tester, I will gladly make a custom outfit/weapon or something for the tester group to have when the game launches. So they can distinguish themselves among the other players.

That background hand-pixel'd?

If so, whoever made that is the modern reincarnation of Picasso.

I pixeled them, thank you that is a very nice compliment.
Yes every background and level in this game is hand pixeled..no tiles will be used in the entire game.

How's this going? I really look forward to it.

I stumbled upon some of the graphics listed on Kotaku's Tumblr page

http://updates.kotaku.com/post/86945...art-april-2014

Lol

Wow! That's sweet! Cool to see that it's becoming known in the real world.

i really like them, they bring an rpg feel to the game :P
Would there be quests planned for the future?

No quests as such have been planned, but we've been toying with the concept of cooperative boss fights.

Right now Jatz and I have been focused on boss fights like he said. The thought has crossed my mind a long time ago for questing, and I see no reason why we can't add quests. I'm not going to promise anything now, I want to make sure Jatz isn't overwhelmed by programming such a large game in the first place. -- As far as art is concerned, I will create all the graphics needed for new and unique quests as often as possible if this is something he can implement. I'd like to do holiday quests with cool rewards. Some prizes being more rare than others so players have a reason to barter and trade their loot.

This project is evolving every single day. Jatz and I have the original plans written out in detail but keep an open mind about changing things. If you guys have any cool suggestions, please post them. I'm taking notes and keeping track of the good stuff posted on the forum. We want this game to be amazing by allowing players to contribute ideas in the early stages of development. Keep in mind that there are a lot of features we have not announced yet... some things that will help make the initial launch more exciting if they are kept secret for the time being.

How to be a beta tester?

We are barely at Alpha stages right now, so Beta still has quite a few months to go. We definitely want Beta testers though and when we get closer to that we will start taking names.

In other news!
We are about to start an official site and devlog/blog. We're struggling to come up with a name for the game though. We'd love to get some suggestions. Just to be clear, the game is an MMO arena fighting game, the story is that everyone is some kind of great warrior from past/present/future. You are all dead in purgatory (between heaven & hell in the after life).. The goal is to try and immortalize yourself as a god by fighting other players and collecting loot/treasure.

We want it to be serious but also slightly comical if it needs to be. Game names like BROFORCE, or SUPER SMASH BRO'S MELEE really catch your attention. The goal is to attract a fan base. Even though the game will be FREE, a bad name can still scare people off.

Playing when released :D

It would be really cool if you guys let other artist have a hand with the graphic works needed. :love:

but they'd have to be good :rolleyes:

It looks incredible!

I've seen this as a mockup on pixeljoint, it's nice to see it upgraded to an actual game!
Looks really awesome, fluid animations and nice graphics.

"Between Heaven and Hell"

There's the name!

Bounty Hunt nah easter anime otaku pixel art fun run of the year and will always survive otaku game hunt!

Well Jatz and I have a great working relationship. The artist would have to be able to match the style of art and have a good personality to work with. If you have anyone in mind, I would consider looking into them. I personally am not overwhelmed by the amount of art I need to do, so we will most likely just continue working as Jatz & Fly for the time being.


Thanks Viy, that is a cool sounding name. I'll put it on our list of suggestions. We will most likely have a vote in the end.

Toxic, Hadi, Meatman204 Thanks for the compliments guys.. it's really motivating to hear people are as excited as we are.

My name is kind of lame but here:

"Hunter United"

Added to the list.. here are some of the names we've got so far, and some of the keywords we've been using at the bottom..

Mercenary Madness
Super Mercenary Madness
Clash of Champions
King of the Arena
Arena Kings
Super Arena Kings
Super Arena Madness
Kings of Konflict
Kings of Conflict
Immortal Impact
Immortal Arena
Clash of Immortals
Eternal Arena
Super Arena Championship
Eternal Glory
Battle Fight
Battle Fight: Eternal Warriors
SUPER FIGHT
Never Ending Championship
Champion Clash
Super Champion Clash
Demigod Brawl
Demigod Duel
Super Champion Arena
Crusader Offensive
Strike Hero
First Strike Hero
First Strike Champion
Last Strike Hero
Super Strike Arena
Super Strike Championship
Hyper Strike Offensive
Immortal Tournament
Fatal Strike Arena
Final Bloodlust
Fortune Fighters
critical Strike
Lethal Strike
Desperate Attack
Super Bloodlust champions
Between Heaven and Hell
Hunter United


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I really like the name Immortal Impact since we probably die a lot but never say dead :D