06 Jan 2025Developer post

Rogue Planet Fan Art from BloodBurn!

Check out this cool Rogue Planet fan art from Bloodburn! Thanks, dude! George also says hi. Stay safe out there, and make sure to stay tuned to 3ofSpades Purgatory for incoming video updates for rogue planet, as well as wip footage of upcoming changes and other goodies. 3ofSpades

23 Dec 2024Developer post

Important News Update!

Been a minute, and I hate to keep you in the dark, so here's a ton of wip new stuff I've been making. A big new WIP map in a flooded city: More new and improved textures: Also been working on more awards, adding more music from the orchestra of eternity, fixing up some of the tex

Been a minute, and I hate to keep you in the dark, so here's a ton of wip new stuff I've been making.

A big new WIP map in a flooded city:

More new and improved textures:

Also been working on more awards, adding more music from the orchestra of eternity, fixing up some of the text, improving more visuals, and making more fun sound stuff, alongside the usual map making. I don't want to spoil the endings, so I won't be showing off the other new maps. But thankfully the game has made some excellent progress and is nearing completion. I haven't made too many updates lately since this is just a casual hobby I do for fun, and work, life, and the holidays have pre-occupied my time as of late.

My current plan is to try to launch a public stress test early next year, which will be used to see how well the game runs before everything is set in stone, plus to see if you can break it so i know what to fix. You are highly encouraged to play that stress test when it releases, as it will be available to everyone this time. So when that happens, go ahead and try to break my game if you can. if you can't, then that's good because it's working. So in other words, I can't fix any bugs if no one says anything about them. Or if the goblins decide to poop on you in the wrestling section and when their dead corpse crashes into the toilet, it crashes the game, in which case, that is intentional and will not be fixed.

So hopefully it all works, and after I get done with my game, I'll see about giving back to the people who still use this engine and want to make games that look like they came out in 2014 on windows 8 as opposed to 1990 on the Nintendo 64. Because it really deserves a lot better than what Lee Bamber and his animal farm have allowed it to become. And seeing how none of them care about making this easy, I'll be taking matters into my own hands to dig this engine out of the grave.

Turns out gameguru can do some crazy stuff without overwhelming first time game developers with coding and learning advanced college courses they'll never use when they eventually have to work another job at McDonald's, so I'd rather more people be able to also make fun fps games that look good without giving up the entire idea because no one cared to help them when they were desperate and wanted their money while giving them a half baked product.

I guess we'll see how it goes from the stress test to release, but otherwise, I'll be busy with Christmas, and I hope you have happy holidays. Unless you don't celebrate the holidays, in which case, I hope you enjoyed this news update.

For more news and info, please visit my website:
https://threeofspades.weebly.com/

I will also be uploading more Rogue Planet videos on the 3ofSpades Purgatory YouTube channel, so check that out too if you haven't already. Also been quiet on that because of life, but I won't be for much longer:

https://www.youtube.com/@pcveteran1760

Merry Christmas from George, the friendly torched man in the basement.

And from yours truly.

Merry Christmas,
-3ofSpades

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22 Sep 2024Developer post

Working on Improved Textures

WIP Improvements to in-game textures, content shown is subject to change: And yes, as you may have seen, Gary got an upgrade. Here is a sneak peek in level 2: I've gone through the effort of sharpening many various textures of a lot of the GameGuru models, mostly being the ones o

WIP Improvements to in-game textures, content shown is subject to change:

And yes, as you may have seen, Gary got an upgrade. Here is a sneak peek in level 2:

I've gone through the effort of sharpening many various textures of a lot of the GameGuru models, mostly being the ones of models you will be constantly seeing throughout my game. Naturally models like the low poly cityscapes of the background aren't really in need of that when they're in the skybox 3 miles away. However, models like the trees, walls, buildings, and the enemies are. So while every model may not get this treatment, the focus should help many in game models and assets look better and more detailed while maintaining their original resolution as to not increase the requirements for those on lower end hardware.

While I was poking through the textures of a lot of models, I was running a few experiments and found I was able to improve the shading and details of many of the textures in GameGuru by opening the .dds texture files of a model, increasing the sharpness of the color and normal maps, or other texture maps, if the models even had any (which in my testing, 9/10 models did not even have a basic ambient occlusion, specular, or metallic map, which leads to some models looking better than others in the engine due to the unfinished PBR support.)

Most of what I found out about the various models and the textures on them was rather interesting. The actual textures were either taken from real life photos, presumably on a camcorder due to the very low resolution, and very haphazardly wrapped around the various low poly models, leading to the typical issue of most gameguru games where everything looks like moldy mashed potatoes and 144p YouTube videos from 2006, and/or exported to an incredibly blurred resolution that looked like someone smeared grease on them. I was able to fix them by pressing four buttons in Paint .net and got these results.

So hopefully one of their updates that take 7 months to fix 1 bug can take some notes so games on this engine look more like windows 8 instead of XP.

The Devil is in the Details, GameGuru. You know you don't deserve me. ːujelː

Anyways, enough of that.
More coming soon, take care and stay tuned!

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06 Aug 2024Developer post

Demo 5 Teaser

New Demo 5 Images: Stay Tuned! Coming soon to Itch.io! I'm also planning on a future gamejolt release, so stay tuned for that too! Level 1: (Now with added HDR!) HDR Off: HDR On: I improved Bloom and Contrast levels to avoid over exposure and what testers called the "Flashbang" e

21 Apr 2024Developer post

7 Years Later!

Fun fact, this little game of mine has been in the making for about 7 years. I think the first ever build I made was on 4/20/2017. Time sure flies when you're having fun. So speaking of, it has been a while and I have a lot of new screenshots from an upcoming beta that's under ac