Caged Photon Beta

Kulu

Hello fellow game devs.


I would like to submit my game ,Caged Photon, for critique and comments. I would also like feedback and suggestions.

If anyone is interested , I will post links for the game , for your assesment.

I have done all I can on my own, and would appreciate a fresh opinion.

I will post links to the game if there is anyone interested in particapating in this beta.

In the meanwhile here are trailers and screenshots.





http://postimg.org/gallery/2fw4aftmi/

Fengol

Can I strongly recommend uploading your game to itch.io rather than mediafire. It is free and more people will get to see it and give feedback. You can then have all your screenshots and descriptions in one place.

Looking forward to giving your game a try!

Kulu

Hi Fengol

Thanks for the suggestion. I wanted to post on itch.io after the beta phase.

I need to make some income on this project ( being unemployed for 3 years has taken its toll ), which is why I dont want to upload to itch.io right now. But my original plan was to upload to itch.io and maybe other indie game distribution stores.

SUGBOERIE

Hey @Kulu. Nice work on the game so far. Can't see any download link to play. Would only be able to give decent feedback with a playthrough. Otherwise, looks decent.

There's a bunch of settings you can play around with on itch.io with regards to releasing it. You can have it public but not listed in the search results. So, you can give the link to certain people without it being out there, out there. Plus there's also an option for private (not sure how that one works).

Kulu

Cool . Will look into it.

Im just trying to get enough data / bandwidth , to upload. Tried twice already and failed.

Will give another go this weekend maybe.

Kulu

Hello fellow indie devs . Here is Caged Photon beta version . for your assesment. I had to split it up in parts. there are 12 parts , each one is 50mb. Use Winrar to unzip , while unzipping it should automatically ask or look for the next .rar file to unzip . total disk space is around 600mb . Thank you for your patience. Please let me know of any issues you experience.

I built Caged Photon on this system. so I consider this as the minimum requirements

intel i3 3.4ghz
nvidia Geforce 9500 gt 512mb {128bit}
6 gbs of ram



http://www.mediafire.com/file/zn8jr1cnf90ny7n/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part01.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/y5qqnex1dsnqeh4/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part02.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/18rk7nu6zlqo9p4/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part03.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/xvw9u4r9ggi2ul7/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part04.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/fuy7gaxuinyxkbh/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part05.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/9qi6yhxjgpawta4/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part06.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/c2ja98zz1gc1aa2/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part07.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/94qfcc02kzik4a2/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part08.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/bkc2mmgbcb29uu6/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part09.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dxe7c90t8t649hu/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part10.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/cs5jtosb1cas9ua/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part11.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/rcromcadmq287r5/CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113.part12.rar

Fengol

Why is your project so big?

Kulu

Hi Fengol . The project is big because , thats what I had when I finished making it. I couldnt make it one huge project because of lack of PC resources, So I split it up into levels. thats why it is 600mb.

Im still adjusting to working with 3d realtime engines. sorry. will try to adjust further.

Fengol

You can probably start with some image optimization. I see nearly all your diffuse and normal maps are 2048x2048 which is huge. The other issue are the collections of images you have to make cut scenes.

Here is a sceenshot of your game's disk usage


FYI, when I try to run the game I get "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0150002). Click OK to close the application."

Kulu

Okay thanks Fengol. I will adjust the textures (sometimes I forget this stuff, im too used to pre-rendered work). I think the error you get is because of your C++ runtimes . The engine I use (3D Rad) uses Microsoft Visual C++ 2005. Im going to be uploading updates for this project. Im just out of time right now. I can probably shrink the image sequences of the cutscenes. will update soon. thanks again. :)

vintar

@Kulu , just watched the trailer for the first time and it looks very intriguing indeed. Love the floating in space bit. Good job so far!

Kulu

Thanks Vintar. The game is not centered around action. its more like exploration , with a simple story to follow.

Kulu

Hello

here are some extra file for Caged Photon . Fixes some sound , and control issues , and also adds the Full Shaders that Caged Photon uses.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/4c3sc4fusa76t2g/others+v12point1.rar


it is a 15mb download. fixes the sound, and controls in most projects. and also fixes the extra mission project.

the project files go in this directory (overwrite the previous files in directory)


...\CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113\3DRad_res\projects


the shaders go in this directory (overwrite the previous files in directory)


...\CAGEDPHOTONv12.0_20161009100113\3DRad_res\system\shaders


all comments and feedback is welcome

Kulu

Hello again. I just want to mention that any issues , comments , or likes or dislikes are welcome. trying to make the best of this test phase.

Kulu

Hello people

Here is , hopefully , the last update for Caged Photon . Thanks to everyone who tested Caged Photon, without your feedback , the end result would have been different.

The download is 52mb , which unzips to 130mb . all you have to do is copy the contents of each folder to its corresponding folder on your system.
In this update Ive added the no shadows option , and Ive taken the Poly count of the character models.

www.mediafire.com/?w18eunydqc53lq6


All feedback is welcome.

Kulu

Just wanted to show Caged Photon , running on my Intel HD gfx setup. all comments welcome

roguecode

Kulu said:

The download is 52mb , which unzips to 130mb . all you have to do is copy the contents of each folder to its corresponding folder on your system.
In this update Ive added the no shadows option , and Ive taken the Poly count of the character models.
www.mediafire.com/?w18eunydqc53lq6

How do I run this? The readme says to copy the folders from this link into \CAGEDPHOTONv12.7_20161110004140\ but I don't see 12.7 linked anywhere above?

Also, there are much better [free] options than mediafire that won't spam people with ads. Dropbox, OneDrive, GoogleDrive etc.

Kulu

Okay sorry for not being clear. if you have downloaded both Updates for the beta . then ......

content of "projects" folder go to this directory


content of "scripts" folder go to this directory


content of "shaders" folder goes in this directory


content of "skinmesh" folder goes in this directory



I will try Googledrive next time. dropbox has failed to upload every time I try it.

Kulu

Hi guys . I just want to get yall guys feedback on this mini-game im going to add to Caged Photon. Im trying to vary the gameplay as much as I can without destroying the main purpose of Caged Photon. Its a 18mb download , that unzips to 50mb . it should run decently ( I think ) . Ive tested it on an entry level AMD pc as well . This is a mini-game that will feature in one of the levels of Caged Photon , probably in the OrbitCity level .


www.mediafire.com/file/6dbw3z5kllkdawh/SPACECUPMINIGAMEv003_20170221143134.rar


'd' to shoot

'c' to change camera views