This Week in GameGuru - 01/28/2019

https://www.thegamecreators.com/post/gameguru-antiques-in-attic-dlc-updated 

https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220354?page=2 - lee
 

Official GameGuru News:

Another pack (this time, a fairly recent one) got updated, notably the 'antiques in the attic' DLC.
Details can be found here: https://www.thegamecreators.com/post/gameguru-antiques-in-attic-dlc-updated 

Of particular interest, however, was a recent thread on the forums which had some interaction with Lee specifically detailing his plans for GG in 2019. The debate has been fairly heated, but this was the most recent information he dropped on the product's direction: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220354?page=2#msg2611108

Mostly he's pointing at forking the code into 'code fixes' and 'new features'. This is a smart move, one I'd recommend doing ASAP.  The code fixes branch needs to be really buttoned up.

What's Good in The Store:

Gtox put together some more reptiles!
Dagored is back on the scene with a really beautiful Huey helicopter that is actually an object that can attack you!  It's pretty fantastic and well worth an add if you're doing a modern-style shooter.
There's some new scripts, in game collectibles, and music as well.

Third Party Tools and Tutorials:

Someone finally put together an 'entity bank search tool' - thank god for that.

DuchenKuke put together a fairly solid tutorial on how to add grass to GameGuru.  Check it on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVCPeronHE

Free Stuff:

Good lord.  Normally I'd cover all of it, but there's just too much this week.  Do yourself a favor and pick up a tank, subway station, converted FPSC assets, an enemy, and more.  The forum is chock full of goodies this week! https://forum.game-guru.com/board/25

Random Acts of Creativity (WIPs):

This is another high test week for me so I'm going to only put up the few screenshots I've aggregated over the past few days.

Foremost we've got this beauty by DK:

That is shockingly good!  Note the use of vegetation and the really well applied artistic color palette.

Cybernessence really put his heart into his Cogwheel Chronicles game and the latest update has a HUGE amount of extra goodies in it that might make it into the final engine release: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/213870?page=5#msg2611195

And lastly wolf has finally given Acythian it's own tab on his website along with a proper indiedb presence!

Current Status:

Well, I'm getting beat up, frankly. My editor, a good friend who of some years had nearly a decade in the Australian gaming mag as a vice editor.  He really wasn't terribly impressed  by some of my writing style and it's been an ugly past few days trying to clean that up.  I have my hands full.

As we approach finality where I can submit this, I have so much more work to do afterwards including tutorial levels and the like.

This Week in GameGuru - 01/21/2019

Apologies for the short weekly review here, I am in crunch mode for the book for the next few weeks.

Official GameGuru News:

https://www.thegamecreators.com/post/gameguru-mega-pack-2-dlc-updated-4
Looks like more updates are happening with the PBR quality improvement passes. 
Unfortunately the issues log continues to grow.  Here's to hoping Lee and team can get some of those big ticket items knocked off the list.

What's Good in the Store: 

Looks like Graphix put up a nice looking radio and BSP added his first new weapon pack in a while.  I love the Pancor Jackhammer, aesthetically so I'm looking forward to picking this pack up myself and testing it out!

Free Stuff:

Graphix put out an amazing looking light-sword (cough not a saber, more like a rapier, honest).  Make sure you get a copy here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/217932?page=13#msg2610448

Third Party Tutorials and Tools:

Nothing new here, sorry kids.

Random Acts of Creativity (WIPS):

I'm getting absolutely bombarded with everyone's post-new years works - so apologies if I missed anything pertinent.

Current the big news is Synchromesh put out a new copy of Protascope and it looks great!

I'm really looking forward to this one, as it presents interesting game mechanics for the GameGuru genre of games.  The menu alone looks much better than previous iterations so definitely keep your eyes open!

I'm also happy to report Bonesy is still working on his yet unnamed project.

Ramiro put a new demo video up for Psalm of Salem.  Here's a link for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCXLuRBUK9c

It looks pretty nice and doesn't appear to be having framerate issues so that's a huge boon for a Forest map.  He's definitely gotten my attention, at least.

Guns of Solo got a demo video uploaded as well.  Check out the information on the post here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/219402?page=3#msg2610773

3com is putting up a new project. His take is different but the texturing is definitely going to hold him back unless he can find a way to improve the graphical fidelity.  Still, it's a solid effort in a new direction.  https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/218230?page=1#msg2610719

In My Own Works:

I've gotten a TREMENDOUS amount of work done over the past week.  I literally added another 5000 words to the book by simply updating the appendixes that I have added.  I have to say if you had no other reason to buy the book - this would do it.  I've torn apart code, read internal documentation, tested, verified with others and a host of other things just to answer questions that simply are assumed by most of the coders involved.  My personal editor continues his trek into my book and while there's been some very large cleanups overall feedback has been really positive.
I'm looking forward to being done with this phase, though this week it's all about taking pictures for the book.

This Week in Game-Guru - 1/14/2018

This week's update will be a bit shorter than usual as I am in crunch mode for my book (which goes to the publisher in Feb).

So just a quick pass on the GameGuru stuff from this last week:

Official GameGuru News

Nothing official but it seems the issues list on Github is climbing ever higher. Maybe we'll see some of those get knocked off soon?  

What's Good in the Store

Lots of good things out there this week, notably the RPG pack by moshroom and the music packs shown below.  

However, it seems Dvader dropped a pretty unique 'lockpicking' script that brings to mind a certain game set in post apocalyptia.

I'd love a video of this, but for now, this still will have to suffice!

Free Stuff

A free top-down low poly character: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220434
Tarkus1971 put out a new track called 'the realization' - https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/213190?page=5#msg2610573
Piratemyke is continuing to provide interesting free models (in a sense) made with the EBE: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220414

Third Party Tools and Tutorials

Nothing new this week.

Random Acts of Creativity (WIPs)

Karmacomposer posted a sneakpeak of his current work:

Not bad! Though with these entities I'm sure the optimization phase will be an absolute bear.  Good luck on your project, Karma. Details available here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220427

 Maha25 posted an interesting screenshot of a Jungle-based project called N.D.A. -

You can get more details here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220404

Ramiro has a new project (Psalm of Salem)on their way:

For more details, click here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220435.

In My Own Works

My 3 proofers have basically been working at getting their updates done, which I have to incorporate into the book while simultaneously doing a first draft edit.  Initial feedback is very positive. I also have my editor looking at it so he can make appropriate changes to help cram this in as quick as possible.  Next week will be me making pictures and formatting changes.  Then I *crosses fingers* will be done.

This Week in GameGuru - 01/07/2019

Happy New Year, folks! With a new year undoubtedly will come new changes!

Official GameGuru News

This week we have the official update of PBR assets to the Fantasy Pack -  https://www.thegamecreators.com/post/gameguru-fantasy-pack-updated-2
And I have to say they look quite impressive indeed.  Much better quality than previous PBR re-skins in my opinion.

What's Good in the Store

This week we have some interesting products available:

It's nice to see Dagored getting back into GG projects.  His attack drones have a pretty nice animation to them and are definitely a solid choice.  M2Design continues to add more buildings and shacks.  I personally would be leery of that suspiciously good looking jet fighter as it likely is someone else's work that snuck it's way onto the store and will likely be removed shortly.

One promising piece of work that isn't yet released yet is Openload's RPG-style inventory system.

The screenshots look fantastic and I'm sure it will end up on the store in the near future so keep an eye out.

Free Stuff

Graphix made some nice stuff you can get from his pack.  Check out some of it here:
https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/217932?page=13#msg2610284

The new stuff is an ammo bag and a lightsaber-style weapon.

Third Party Tools and Tutorials

A pretty interesting discussion on getting FBX with animations to .X was had over here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220399

You can also glean some really interesting ideas from PirateMyke's EBE structure thread here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220414

Random Acts of Creativity

Guns of solo released an update and I have to say it's looking mighty fine!

Apparently he's hard at work at trying to improve framerate. More details can be found here but overall I like the direction this project is heading! 

Some other new projects have shown, looks like a new year means more projects!

CorzaX has a tropical island game he's working on. It looks like it's coming along well. 

Nier is working on a fantasy/medieval game and so far the screenshots look pretty good.

It's always nice to see someone making a custom HUD.

Maha25 has a jungle-style shooter as well that has some fairly decent atmospherics.

Synchromesh put together a fantastic video of the new AI as a Demo but I have to say the level itself looks great too! https://youtu.be/IxOZ_xvKhto

So all in all it's proving to be a fairly busy January!

In My Own Works

Works is progressing rapidly.  I am doing my first pass over the manuscript, have 3 proof-readers reading the work AND sent the preliminary copy to my personal editor.  Hopefully by next week mid-week I'll be in a much better position for this to move forward.  I also have about 140 pictures to take for the book so that's going to be a solid couple of days progress as well.

Proofers are giving me good reports though, saying it's going to be great for people to have all this info in one place.  Looks good so far!