Void Destroyer is now on Steam's Early Access!

[chaosavy]

Here's the latest video - a cinematic trailer for Steam's Early Access:

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Its been a long road, Ogre made it so much easier, might not have made it this far without it and the community.

Also a big thanks to Xavi who helped out with a lot of finishing effects, the toon/cel/outline shader, the "speed effect", the glow in tactical mode, the "general glow", the "hit ripples" effect, and I'm probably forgetting one or two. This was thanks to a few of you who backed the project on Kickstarter allowing me to hire Xavi to do some work in a very short amount of time while I continued coding away at the game engine/logic/etc.

There's another trailer, a bunch more screen shots and info on the store page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/259660

[xelon]

Congratulations! Making it that far is certainly not an easy task.

[areay]

the toon/cel/outline shader

I don't think I've seen a space game that uses that effect.

I rewatched that youtube clip just to pay more attention to how it made things look. I think I understand why you do it; to make a dark ship's silouette stand out from the star field background? It works well for that anyway (at 2:18 there's a good demo). It feels odd seeing this now after watching many of your previous iteration videos where my impression of it was more gritty, and less toony. I think it's better though, makes the objects seem more discrete and important, like you should care about them more, I dunno how to explain it well

[Zonder]

The graphics made me thing of beneath a steel sky.

[NotCamelCase]

Congratulations! I loved the game mechanics. The graphics also looks great. Even though I don't agree with the concept of early access, I'll buy it as soon as I adjust my little student budget I also wonder if developers on Steam get any stats related to how many user added their game to Wish List for self-evaluation.

I feel intense pressure to buy every Ogre-powered game as the moment it appears online anyway

[Xavyiy]

Congratulations Paul!

It's been a pleasure to work with you on these effects, and it's been a really great surprise when I tested them all together yesterday, the complete composition of gameplay, motion, particles and effects is really great!

Wish the best for you and Void Destroyer!

Xavier

[mkultra333]

Looks awesome, and congrats on the Steam Early Access. Great job!

I like the toon/outline effect, I've just starting using the same style in my own game. Your graphics look even better now with the effect.

[TheSHEEEP]

Great video!

[DarkScythe]

congrats, looks awesome...

[chaosavy]

thanks guys - I learned a few valuable lessons... always have a launch screen with options... life would be easier, plus I keep offering up bandaids via editing the ogre.cfg file.

[Kojack]

Looks damn cool!

The steam forum seems to be liking it too, and they can be very critical, especially for early access games after being burnt on recent ones.

[Jabberwocky]

Slick video. Great move working with Xavyiy on those effects - the man obviously knows a thing or two about fancy graphics work.