-- Red Shift --

[normanf]

Hey there, fellow 3Impact users!

Thought I'd post a few screenies to show our progress, and to whet your appetites for our video which we'll be posting shortly. The game's been dubbed "Red Shift". Enjoy!































Pretty cool, huh?

[CaptainJ]

Yes, it does look cool.
What  does it do? What is the gameplay about?
CJ

[Exavior]

At least to me, the bottom part of the hud looks really out of place. Other than that the pics look fine.

[normanf]

What does it do? Hmm... I thought that'd be obvious from the screenshots 

It's a space shooter from the perspective of the pilot (notice the helmet surrounding the view). Pay little attention to the cockpit in general at this point - it's all gonna change. The gameplay revolves mainly around mission based objectives, leading to frantic, massive scale (hopefully) battles and dogfighting with AI based wingmen at your command. Bear in mind, a lot of this still needs to be implemented, but the battles are coming along quite nicely already.

The logos are just overlays on the screenshots, and do not appear in game.

[Mike_Hense]

looks pretty coooooool... nice visuals... looking forward to the video...

--Mike

[genetransfer]

realy like the ships and asteroids and space, what type of weapons/power ups are there to choose from? can you advance in the types of craft you can fly? just curious like CJ as to the overall gameplay stucture. look good though.

[CaptainJ]

What does it do? Hmm... I thought that'd be obvious from the screenshots 

Heh. Yes, it is obvious that it is a space shooter, but what is not obvious is why are we shooting things in space, and what are our objectives.
Examples:
Star Trek: Primary objective: "To explore strange new worlds...", make friends, shoot enemies and obstacles, solve problems as they arise.
Star Wars: Defeat the evil empire!
Battlestar Galactica: Preserve humanity and find a new home planet.
Asteroids: Fly around and shoot whatever we see!

Anyway, just wondered if all the pretty pictures have a story to go with them.
Quote: "mission based objectives", "frantic, massive scale battles", "dogfighting with AI based wingmen".
That was some of what I was asking for. Dogfighting with AI based wingmen sounds cool.
CJ

[Joyful Dreamer]

Wow, nice job.

[normanf]

Thanks for the comments, guys.

@ genetransfer:
At the moment the player has lasers and missiles. We plan on introducing different styles of missiles, and possibly different modes of firing them (all at once, alternate left & right, etc.) We plan on having at least one major ship upgrade (ie. from one fighter to an entirely new fighter), but there won't be pickup style powerups - we wanted to keep things as realistic and true to life as possible (as true to life as an alien space shooter can be, anyway  )

@ CaptainJ:
There is quite an involved storyline, but suffice it to say for now that your objective is to save the planet from the alien menace (sounds vaguely familiar, somehow) - don't want to give too much away just yet.

[Developer - Fernando]

WOW 

Can I pick one screen and add it to the users' screenshots page?