That looks awesome!

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I didn't even read the thread yet, just the screenshots captured my attention.

Oh my god, those screenshots.

It looks fantastic!

Okay after reading the thread, I really like the idea. Sounds like it could be fun.

Do the heads wobble?

Sort of, your head looks at where your cursor is, for grabbing and such, it just isn't visible in the screenshots.

Reminds me a bit of Trine.

If the teams don't get to interact, the other team's tower should be behind yours - so you can still see their progress and be competitive.

This could work... but then the screens would be flipped on either team.

Well I would think that if it were mirrored that would both look good and work.

It would be nice if you could shift their heads backwards a few units, if that's possible. It's a nice idea, but it looks a little awkward with their inflated heads falling off their necks.

It does, doesn't it?

lol its like Little Big Planet but with even BETTER physics :P

LittleBigPlanet for gmod. I love it.

Lovin the playermodels

Looks great!
Maybe a more chaotic version where both teams have to build in the same space?
Only as an option, of course.
That way building quickly would be much more important, as the other team can knock down your tower.
To avoid just general havoc, you could have the blocks 'team locked'. So red team can only move red blocks, and blue can only move blue blocks, but the blocks interact. IE a team can knock over enemy structures by flinging blocks, rather than just grabbing the tower and throwing it.

This reminds me of the ice-climber stage in SSBM. Looks awsome BTW.

I saw a screeny on GMod news and I've been searching through all the gamemodes searching for this!

It looks amazing!

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You could have custom animations for the winner (they could jump around and do a victory dance), 2nd place (a half hearted victory dance), and third and last could be kinda pissed off or upset.

Just suggesting it as it would be a nice feature and the game seems kind of childish and a bit playful.

This is my favorite :D
When I playing this, I going to use the Daniel Jackson player model :p (Someone from Stargate SG-1)

Awesome art style. can't wait to play.

Best way to force people to follow to rules is to make it harmful for players to stay on the ground for too long. Lets say that their is a rising water level that activates after 1 minute into the round.

Rising water is a terrible idea for this game.

See also: Flood Control

This is so goddamn awesome

Do you have a video yet?

Not just yet, but I will grab one tomorrow when Anima is about so we can take it in multiplayer.


Haven't got the time on my hands at the moment to reply to all of you guys' comments, but I'll try to clear some of your queries up tomorrow. Cheers all for the comments so far!

The screenshots kinda remind me of Braid for some reason. Nice work, looking forward to a gameplay video.

Little Big Planet in Gmod FTW!

Anyways, perhaps you could create hazards?

haha, that was what I was thinking the whole time. Now the darn trailer music is stuck in my head. STOP THE WHISTLING!

Love the look of this. Got my, uh, vote?

We just took a quick video a moment ago, which you can check out in the OP. The gamemode is still missing vital gameplay elements, like the block spawners and checkpoints - which will result in more co-operative play than shown in the video - but the basic gameplay is there, so you can get a good idea of what it's all about.



We do want something like that, where you can see each other progressing, but as we want there to be 4 teams in total we're still working out how that can be accomplished without everything being too chaotic. What we've been thinking, is that we'll have all teams level's side-by-side, and then a "map" on the HUD showing how high each team is. That way your team's level is still the main focus, but you can glimpse other players if you want/need to.

Either way, we have other things we need to get sorted before we work on properly implementing teams anyway, so we'll be thinking about it more further down the line.

That's not possible as far as I know, but it hopefully won't a huge problem anyway. I can't say that I've noticed it to be an issue in-game. It might be that it doesn't look so bad when it's in motion?

Haha, considering just coordinating a team without any outside influences is tricky, I think that'd be very difficult to get any real teamwork going, even with the block restrictions. Having said that, we're not ruling anything out just yet. We definitely want some sort of team interaction going on, we just haven't decided on how much yet, and in what way to do it. As I said above though, we haven't put much thought into the other teams yet, as we've been busy concentrating on everything else at the moment.

We actually just discussed doing something like that the other day, so it's cool you mentioned it. It all really depends on if we have time to do it, but it's definitely something we're thinking about.



I'm going to be very busy the next week or so, so unfortunately it's unlikely there'll be any thread activity from us until then. Thanks for all the interest so far though guys, will get back to work on this asap.

Oh, it would also be a cool idea for the background if it progressed from the ground to the clouds then into space.

Ooh, after seeing the video it looks really fun! I love the cheesy "thanks!" and "good job, buddy!"

I think some sort of custom animation showing that someone is manipulating a block is needed. Like, y'know, both arms outstretched, Force-manipulating it, or something like that, because, while the video was awesome, the whole passing-the-block-from-player-to-player bit looked kind of janky because you couldn't tell who was manipulating the block very well.

But this looks very awesome otherwise!

4 Teams? That seems a little optimistic. It means you have to have at least 8 players for a full game (unless the number of teams scales with the players). So up to 8 players, it is 2 teams of 4, then at 9 players, it is 3 teams of 3, then at 10 players it is 2 teams of 3 and one team of 4, 11 it is 3 teams of 3 and 1 team of 2 and at 12 it can just be 4 teams.

I hope that makes sense. Also, good idea about the map if you have lots of teams...

Well it's up to 4 teams, so you actually will only need two players to start the game, but I see what you mean. I'm not sure if it's actually possible to dynamically change the amount of teams once the gamemode has loaded, but I'll have a look into it.

this is like playing as the wizard from Trine lol
looks addictive and fun
but it does look a little crowded sometimes, even with two people

Dynamically changing the amount of teams is easy. At the start of the round just count the players and only create the teams you need, or just ignore the other teams. Looks good anyway.

Any news?

I think it would be cool if the 4 towers for each team were arranged in a square or something. So in the background you could see how other people are doing.