Hi everyone!
After almost two years of work, i'm happy to present you "RobZ".
RobZ is our second game: a 2D top view single and online multiplayer pirate game, in which the player plays the captain of a pirate ship, trying to make a reputation for himself by sinking enemy ships and boarding merchant ships.
Trailer:
RobZ has several single and multiplayer modes:
- Golden Run: the main single player mode, in which the player tries to earn as much gold as possible by boarding as many merchant ships as possible
- Challenge: a single player mode in which the player tries to survive as long as possible against waves of enemies
Online multiplayer
- Free For All (FFA): a multiplayer mode, the goal here is to reach a certain number of sunken ships
- Online Golden Run: a multiplayer mode, similar to the single player Golden Run mode
- Team Deathmatch (TDM) : a team match in which the goal is to reduce the enemy fleet to 0
Birth and genesis of the project (August 2020):
It is while working on other projects in a small studio (closed since January 2022) that I met a coder. We decided to create a prototype for a phone. Very quickly we make evolve the rules of the first mode that we baptize "The golden run".
At the beginning, we prototyped a simple survival game, then we added merchant ships that must be plundered by the player to earn gold.
The beauty of robz is that only gold buried by the player is counted.
If the player gets sunk, the gold he carries sinks with him.
Thus, the mechanics of the game push the player to take a maximum risk because each looted merchant ship increases the amount of loot of the next ship with a multiplier.
If the player buries his gold, the reward multiplier drops to 1, if the merchant ship manages to reach the northern port city the multiplier drops to 1. After 3 lost merchant ships, the crew mutinies and the game ends.
The age of reason (January 2021-April 2021):
In the meantime Langfeust, (co-creator of "Dinoz soccer") joins us in the adventure and works on the online multiplayer part of the game as well as on the creation of player accounts so that users can save their progress on the bdd with all the security that this implies.
He creates a "quick join" matchmaking, sets up a lobby
and adds 3 multiplayer modes: FFA (Free for all deathmatch), Online golden run and TDM (team death match)
Why make simple when you can make complicated? (May 2021-April 2022):
We transformed the game in full cross-plateform.
We completely changed the design of the game interfaces to make them gamepad/touch screen and mouse/keyboard compatible.
Added the possibility for players to unlock more than 50 ships and upgrade them a bit like in "War thunder".
Added powers, bonuses, weapons etc...
We decide to make the mobile version "cross-display" in order to allow players on mobile platform to play in portrait or landscape mode (Canvas overlay on the whole game? Not even afraid!)
Launching (June 2022)
We decide to publicly release a first version of the game on June 22nd 2022 on Itch.
The release for mobile platforms on the Play store will follow in a few days.
A few points in brief:
We created our own culling occlusion system so that we could create large maps for players to move around in.
Cities are destructible, buildings change their state according to the damage received.
Cute little useless NPC, go about their business hoping not to fall victim to a cannonball accidentally fired by you from the sea.
The registration of the players is done with a verification code sent by email. Triangulation and encrypted Mdp from end to end.
Ambient sounds are pan left/right depending on the geographical origin of their emission.
A.I. and collisions are processed with raycasts system
Sounds and musics are home made as well as all graphic elements (drawn with InkScape).
Here is a link for those who want to listen to the playlist: ROBZ - ost
A leader board on the site that changes in real time to display the best pirates of the golden run world!
----Leader board---
We will add new content regularly,
You can get the PC game here (100% free, no ads) https://www.starsheepstudio.com
Have fun, it's free, don't hesitate to give me feedbacks and be careful where you sail, there are sea monsters in these dangerous waters...
After almost two years of work, i'm happy to present you "RobZ".
RobZ is our second game: a 2D top view single and online multiplayer pirate game, in which the player plays the captain of a pirate ship, trying to make a reputation for himself by sinking enemy ships and boarding merchant ships.
Trailer:
RobZ has several single and multiplayer modes:
- Golden Run: the main single player mode, in which the player tries to earn as much gold as possible by boarding as many merchant ships as possible
- Challenge: a single player mode in which the player tries to survive as long as possible against waves of enemies
Online multiplayer
- Free For All (FFA): a multiplayer mode, the goal here is to reach a certain number of sunken ships
- Online Golden Run: a multiplayer mode, similar to the single player Golden Run mode
- Team Deathmatch (TDM) : a team match in which the goal is to reduce the enemy fleet to 0
Birth and genesis of the project (August 2020):
It is while working on other projects in a small studio (closed since January 2022) that I met a coder. We decided to create a prototype for a phone. Very quickly we make evolve the rules of the first mode that we baptize "The golden run".
At the beginning, we prototyped a simple survival game, then we added merchant ships that must be plundered by the player to earn gold.
The beauty of robz is that only gold buried by the player is counted.
If the player gets sunk, the gold he carries sinks with him.
Thus, the mechanics of the game push the player to take a maximum risk because each looted merchant ship increases the amount of loot of the next ship with a multiplier.
If the player buries his gold, the reward multiplier drops to 1, if the merchant ship manages to reach the northern port city the multiplier drops to 1. After 3 lost merchant ships, the crew mutinies and the game ends.
The age of reason (January 2021-April 2021):
In the meantime Langfeust, (co-creator of "Dinoz soccer") joins us in the adventure and works on the online multiplayer part of the game as well as on the creation of player accounts so that users can save their progress on the bdd with all the security that this implies.
He creates a "quick join" matchmaking, sets up a lobby
and adds 3 multiplayer modes: FFA (Free for all deathmatch), Online golden run and TDM (team death match)
Why make simple when you can make complicated? (May 2021-April 2022):
We transformed the game in full cross-plateform.
We completely changed the design of the game interfaces to make them gamepad/touch screen and mouse/keyboard compatible.
Added the possibility for players to unlock more than 50 ships and upgrade them a bit like in "War thunder".
Added powers, bonuses, weapons etc...
We decide to make the mobile version "cross-display" in order to allow players on mobile platform to play in portrait or landscape mode (Canvas overlay on the whole game? Not even afraid!)
Launching (June 2022)
We decide to publicly release a first version of the game on June 22nd 2022 on Itch.
The release for mobile platforms on the Play store will follow in a few days.
A few points in brief:
We created our own culling occlusion system so that we could create large maps for players to move around in.
Cities are destructible, buildings change their state according to the damage received.
Cute little useless NPC, go about their business hoping not to fall victim to a cannonball accidentally fired by you from the sea.
The registration of the players is done with a verification code sent by email. Triangulation and encrypted Mdp from end to end.
Ambient sounds are pan left/right depending on the geographical origin of their emission.
A.I. and collisions are processed with raycasts system
Sounds and musics are home made as well as all graphic elements (drawn with InkScape).
Here is a link for those who want to listen to the playlist: ROBZ - ost
A leader board on the site that changes in real time to display the best pirates of the golden run world!
----Leader board---
We will add new content regularly,
You can get the PC game here (100% free, no ads) https://www.starsheepstudio.com
Have fun, it's free, don't hesitate to give me feedbacks and be careful where you sail, there are sea monsters in these dangerous waters...
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