I really wasn't planning to mention it or even tell anybody about it until it was completely done, and I'm sure that unless you're a member of http://thechaosrift.com/ forums, you wouldn't even know of its existance.
But yeah, I couldn't help myself and keep it a secret. One of the reasons is so that I can get input on what you think thus far and take some suggestions and comments. The other reason is so that I know what you guys do and don't think would be nice in Null. I'm only 15, and I have school, and I actually have a job interview at Dominos in like an hour. I don't have too much time to spend on things that won't really be appreciated or that can be replaced cooler features.
Anyway, now I'll tell you about Null. Null is a random project I started a while back for the DC to work on before our team starts on another project called NEStix Chaotix. Null is ... well... null. As its name implies, this is no ordinary game. It plays like classic NES MegaMan titles mostly, but has its own little wierd twists. We were going for something really random, almost WTF-ish. I think the screens speak for themselves:
Oh, a real quick random thank you to Tvspelsfreak who has been my teacher through it all...
The Null title screen. ph33r.
These are actually older screenshots before I got lots of stuff done, but parts of those levels are still in there. Oh, and yes, the characters are untextured polygons. It is Null...
Shooting tiles. Please note that version of the gun will not be in the game, I'm upgrading to a MegaMan-ish chargable buster gun.
Hah, just some random secret I was working on...
Cheesy little animation of death... Once again a humble thanks to my teacher Tvspelsfreak for teaching the arts of sin/cos rotations. ^_^
Here are demonstrations of the NEStix particle engine that I ported. Using dyanmic allocation it creates particles at any 1-360 degree angle with any color and size. It won't look like this in the game though, that was just an example... It'll be used for blood and probably nice splashing affects and goodness...
Anyway, there is actually a lot more done than the screens show, but I didn't want to give it all away.
Some things that you might wanna know are supported:
Analog stick
VMU display
DC Keyboard
I'm hoping to get these before I'm done with Null:
VMU save
Puru Puru support
One of the highlights of Null was my idea for having a debug mode that you can unlock. For those of you who haven't played Sonic 2/3/& Knuckles, listen up. After you beat the game you can manipulate the levels by doing things like placing tiles, enemies, editing levels, messing with blood levels, killing yourself, giving yourself life, etc. Pretty much you become god of the game and manipulate whatever you want. I hope to be able to save your level changes to the VMU in the near future. (People with DC keyboards will litterally be able to do ANYTHING, the controller doesn't have enough buttons...)
Null was originally supposed to be a minigame, but it kinda evolved into more than that. While it won't really be too long, it should be long enough and have enough extras to make it awesome...
Tiles are ripped by Showdin at TheChaosRift forums and are from Gemini Man's stage from MM3. We also have tiles ripped from SMB2 and 3 that aren't in any screenshots because I don't wanna give too much away.
My little brother Arce also at TheChaosRift forums has made the PC level editor and it's what we use to create them.
Like I said a deep thanks to Tvspelsfreak from the bottom of my heart who has taught me the arts of the DC Devver and has brought me from "I don't know printf loser" to what I am today.
Also, thank you to everybody else like JSL and MarauderIIC on TheChaosRift forums for all their help.
Please, any questions, comments, complaints, or anything are welcome here. Lemme know what you think and if you have any suggestions or things you'd like to see in Null. Oh, and if you want to keep up with the development (I actually post about once a day), join the forums at http://thechaosrift.com.
