After a while of no progress in Zymotic development, I've decided to open up the SVN and make public to download and try. It's a single player third person game, with only one full level currently. I've made a quick video to show off it's current gameplay:

Video: High Res Zip file download ------ Youtube vid

Zymotic Website

The video just shows off the jetpack, some of the weapons (using a lot of Nexuiz placeholder graphics and sounds), and enemies (turrets and soldiers). The objective of the level is to destroy the 5 power stations, one on each base. Right now there are only a few enemies and their AI is very basic. The level is pretty challenging though, and the jetpack and items give a unique gameplay experience. It's using Morph's Arahia_v2 map, originally made for Nexuiz's domination mode.

Would people be interested in helping with the development of this? From level design, to modelling, to QC programming work, pretty much any aspect of development. I'll be putting it on a public SVN in the next few weeks, and it'll be available for download and public testing. It's still in a very early state, but I dont think it will be released if it stays in private development

Perhaps the Warsow dev team would find this video interesting , they love jetpacks over there i hear.
The gameplay itself looks really interesting.
Im glad to see arahia getting some more use, a very underated map in my opinion.
I'd be up for some level design, but I'll probably have to do it in the summer. Sometimes i work 70 hr weeks so it's just not feasible right now.
Im not sure that the state of my art is very state of the art, but I'll be watching this thread ay. I've got a few large maps that im still working on which could be of use here. I'll do some screens and come back.

Thanks for finally showing this Vermeulen, funny that the warsow team are thinking about doing this same thing with their code and also talking about jetpacks a lot too.

Rad Ished wrote:Perhaps the Warsow dev team would find this video interesting , they love jetpacks over there i hear.

Lool

Anyway, is the game going to be 3rd person view or is that just for show in the video? If it's not going to be 3rd person view, or if you could choose so yourself, that could be shown in the video just to show people. Another thing, if possible, would be to spice up the graphics to attract more people.

However though, I would like to help out with modeling and stuff involving that.

I must say it looks extraordinarily cool and fun

i had no idea how large of a terrain DarkPlaces could support.o.0

amazing engine.

possibly the best open source one.

wow this looks very interesting
i'm becoming fan of it

and maybe in future i ll try make singleplayer on DP myself aaaaaaaaaaaa dreams (sorry)

at the moment i m downloading video ? i will comment again..

ai wrote:Anyway, is the game going to be 3rd person view or is that just for show in the video?

I would also like to know this

Right now, my plan is to have it default third person. I think it gives a better gameplay experience with levels like this, where a lot of the game is focused on movement with the jetpack, and more about weapon strategies than precise aiming.

I think it'll stand out more from Nexuiz and other free FPS games also because of this

The torso's appear to be moving, are the player models segmented or something?

MD3 models,
Set up like Quake3, you can use Quake3 player models even (still need to program a animation.cfg loader though)

The game is designed to be the easiest possible to develop for. Sort of like Nexuiz every single aspect of the game is defined in cvars. All the weapons are the same in the code, so their behavior is entirely defined in their cvars, which i like.

Congrats on releasing to the public. Is coop still possible/planned?

looks pretty cool, it'll be interesting to see how it evolves.

wow! i like the animations...fianlly walking and fire at the same time...i want this in nexuiz too...but i'm sad for the 3rd person view

on a very strange way, I knew I wouldn't like the game from the very begin.

Chubby wrote:on a very strange way, I knew I wouldn't like the game from the very begin.

I think it looks Awesome and it's already posted on ArcadeJumpers, that's how I found out

interesting concept. looks a little too easy with the constant flying around, but i suppose it's a "techdemo" anyway. cool stuff

humm...
me likes a lot, reminds me of Tribes... hope that it you do no start of with jet pack, but "you" will obtain it later on in the game...

I think he made the video to basically show what he had. Like he said a lot of stuff was used as fillers from Nexuiz. I think with a sh!tload of development and gameplay tweaking (I don't think he's trying to make another Nexuiz, I think he's trying to make a Zymotic) that the game will look and sound radically different than this. One thing is for sure: that looks damn fun! Wish I wasn't such a noob (a 1 year tech-school course on basic C++) and was able to get my hands dirty with developing something like this.

I'd be happy to do some level design and assorted other things on this. I'll wait til the SVN repo is up and take a look.

It would be great if an updated todo existed that it continuously got updated and didn't become stagnant, if for nothing else than at least for the developers to have and see. Unless one already exists ^_^

Rad Ished wrote:Perhaps the Warsow dev team would find this video interesting , they love jetpacks over there i hear.
The gameplay itself looks really interesting.
Im glad to see arahia getting some more use, a very underated map in my opinion.
I'd be up for some level design, but I'll probably have to do it in the summer. Sometimes i work 70 hr weeks so it's just not feasible right now.
Im not sure that the state of my art is very state of the art, but I'll be watching this thread ay. I've got a few large maps that im still working on which could be of use here. I'll do some screens and come back.

Thanks for finally showing this Vermeulen, funny that the warsow team are thinking about doing this same thing with their code and also talking about jetpacks a lot too.

jetpacks? What the hell are you talking about? If you want to attempt to make fun of Warsow you should at least check it out.

Vermeulen wrote: I've decided to open up the SVN and make public to download and try. ...

I'll be putting it on a public SVN in the next few weeks, and it'll be available for download and public testing. It's still in a very early state, but I dont think it will be released if it stays in private development

Vermuelen, when and where can i find the SVN I'm in the early learning stages but later i would like to help out

jordanaustino wrote:Vermuelen, when and where can i find the SVN I'm in the early learning stages but later i would like to help out

http://svn.icculus.org/zymotic/

i get this:

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$ svn co http://svn.icculus.org/zymotic zymotic
svn: Repository moved permanently to '/zymotic/'; please relocate

svn docs say it's due to wrong mod_dav_svn configuration. can you fix that.