Creajeux (http://www.creajeux.fr) is a french school teaching the video game industry technics.
As a team project for the students in 1st year, we decided to use Verge-RPG to create an old-school game with cartoon-like graphics called Robloc.
We even included an english version!



Here is the link to the fully playable version of the game: http://www.creajeux.fr/v2/etudiants/projet.php?prj=12

(for the clueless in french, just download the game... http://www.creajeux.fr/v2/download/Robloc/Robloc.rar)

More screenshots and details soon...

All the team hope you'll enjoy the game and thanks the Verge-RPG team for the great engine they put together!

Colin
Lead Programmer
CREAJEUX

Thanks!

We had 18 students on 3D modelisation and 5 students on programming working one friday every two weeks then 2 weeks full time by the end of the year. About 175 hours per student.

We divided the students as teams of 4-5, a team per level.

We first asked the modelers to draw a simple layout on paper of each level. Then they had to add simple volumes like boxes, cylindres, to get an idea of the volumes in 3D space and set up a camera for 2D rendering.

Meanwhile the programmers where getting their hands on Verge3 engine and editor. Focusing on the possibility to import a large (2048*2048) image as background and how to create a character from a 3D model.

Then the modelers took each simple volume and turned it into a building, each time refining the model. One student per team was in charge of importing the new models and render a new image for the level. The programmers could then import it in Maped and adjust the collisions.

Another important part of the workload was modeling and animating the robots. We then used home-made maxscripts to render them as tiles and import them in vopenchr. We also had to modify the Verge3 code to allow 8 directions movement.

Depending on the abilities of each student, we had some students focusing on special parts of the game, like the menu system, dialogs, shooting system, puzzle game, etc. For example, the story was a simple background at first but evolved into a complete scenario.

The big part of the workload for the progammers was the integration of the gameplay. Even though it was a fairly simple gameplay (like get the key, open the door), it took a lot of adjustments to get it right as it was their first game.

The goal of the project was to give the students an experience of game production, working as a team and using essential game production tools like SVN for data control and Mantis for bug tracking.

By the end of the project, we had 5 main areas, 47 maps, 65 robots and 4 mini-games. The game itself might not become an all-time classic, but overall the goals have been reached and all the team can be proud of their accomplishment!

And once again, we are really thankful to the Verge community for releasing this great tool for game production learning.

The Robloc Gallery is now online!

http://www.verge-rpg.com/gallery/gallery.php?robloc

Wow colin :p

You did so great thing with Verge !!

If I had the code talent when I used it for little games.... Pwhuu!

Anyway, There's a good feeling with Robloc, I like to visit the differents parts of the town, but it was a little confused to know what to do next !

Great job to all of you at Creajeux, Students like Teachers ^^

And you miss me all GRRRR !!

Hope to see cool other projects with Verge next year !

See you soon !

Little Gurvy (yeah the little frenchy with always so bad english :p)

Hey McGrue !

I've done a 3d formation (at creajeux !) and now Im working for a little french developper as Animator !! It took me lot of time eh ^^

And for Wooly no, I've no news since a lot of time ! Hope I'll be able to contact him soon !!

I'm always intersting about Verge, and some ideas (more realistic a do-able for me) that I would want to create! If only I can find poeple for the code ^^

It's a pleasure to see you again, hope to see awesome stuff here !

See you soon !