Heat Signature dev log: the first builds of a stealth game in space

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Here's the first video of Heat Signature, a temperature-based space stealth game I've been making the last two days. It's about sneaking up on ships while keeping cool enough to fool their sensors. So you can jet around an infinite galaxy super fast, but your thrusters generate heat, and enemies can detect that from far away. The closer you want to get to them, the cooler you have to stay, and the more precise you have to be with your thrusters. And to take them out, you have to physically clamp onto their hull and shut down their systems.
GHGC is still my main project, I'm just taking a break from the brutal process of learning Unity to make something quick in Game Maker, where I already speak the language. How far I take this depends on how the next few features work out.
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@techcraft228 6 лет назад

my goodness, this game has come a long way.

@UnitingMilk 10 лет назад

The sound that it makes when the ship turns off sounds really satisfying, it'd be cool to see some really nice visual and sound design and I'd be sold on a space stealth game, especially if it was rogue-like haha.

@NikaHarper 10 лет назад

I had this exact feedback. "I dunno what I'm doing yet but that freakin' metal cooling noise is ace."

@Oops-All-Ghosts 9 лет назад

"In a fairly short space of time." I had a bit of a laughing fit, there, two years later.

@jackmorgan1016 7 лет назад

now 3 possibly going 4

@Inanedata 7 лет назад

Eeeyup. 4 years, and a few months. I got a good chuckle from that as well.

@Mikeoneus 7 лет назад

Inanedata I think you might have added an extra year on there.

@STANNco 10 лет назад

Ideas: You could make some giant ships you could fly into. Like shops and missions, to buy fuel or upgrade. Carry dead enemy ships to the big ships ( or somewhere else) to melt it and get parts/money. Bounty's you get a mission to kill someone, maybe you get a radar to track em down. Escort missions ø, this game could be all from stealth to shooter to stragedy. I Hope you can use the ideas.

@BeardifulBill 10 лет назад

This looks awesome. I'm picturing this as a stealthy spy game. Like, have important ships you need to get to and hack without being detected and such. Maybe overload an enemy ship, so that other ships go over to investigate, so you can distract them, as Adam mentioned.

@xo545 10 лет назад

This looks really good so far, and could go many ways, but in my opinion a puzzle format would amazing, with diffarent levels and a story line and objectives etc. Nice work

@Monkey253100 10 лет назад

This looks great so far and it could go anywhere. I would personally like to see it go down more of an upgrade-based route.

@calfm4103 6 лет назад

It's interesting seeing all of the mechanics and designs which were eventually scrapped. This game has come a loooong way, and I'm so glad it is now finished. Can't wait for the next one!

@moeezS 10 лет назад

Already impressed. Love the idea of using dead ships as camouflages.

@nikkorlass 10 лет назад

Love things like this, not only does the game sound super exciting, but your commentary greatly interesting. I gave up on software design, but I feel like that's just because I didn't have any cool ideas like you seem to have in abundance.

@retronymph 9 лет назад

Don't worry Tom, you're always cool.

@TheLordBarker 10 лет назад

I'm digging the look of this. Good work Man. Keep it up!

@ConductiveFoam 10 лет назад

This looks really fun and promising. Nice one, Tom. (:

@TomK32 10 лет назад

I think you should place the game in the asteroid belt, lots of rocks hitting each other and places to hide behind or in. Every other region of the solar system (let alone the galaxy) is, well, empty. It has a few objects of over 400km diameter, plenty of room for exotic colonies and they even some gravity.

@Higgins3G 10 лет назад

so this ship works the same as the one from futurama, it moves the universe around it

@nuazak 10 лет назад

hah, so the game moves the universe around you? it's the planet express ship!

@CodeSquares 10 лет назад

Ever read Cook's Passage at Arms, Tom? I always wanted something very nearly a Silent Hunter type thing, but in space. Nice job adapting the concept of invisibility (submergence) through heat!

@aeneashasvowels 10 лет назад

Idea that might be dumb: attaching to enemy increases mass>spreads heat>heat up more slowly, but can build up more heat that has to dissipate making it a trade-off between fast changes and large amounts of thrust.

@chasestein6984 10 лет назад

Can you put coordinates so that a player can return to a place that he once visited?

@spiveeforever7093 5 лет назад

In a fairly short space of time!

@CraigTinney 10 лет назад

Just a thought; adding planets could serve as a reason not to jet around at mad speeds as the player could smash into a big planet at any moment. That being said, that could also be really annoying. Asteroid fields could also do a similar thing, perhaps a small build-up of debris before a lot of big rocks could help solve with the suddenness of the problem.

@xL1PEx 10 лет назад

There could be some kind of alert HUD at the edges of the screen that point towards huge stuff coming towards you that are out of the your field of view, that would solve that problem.

@smkanim2009 10 лет назад

I'm part of the secret beta team, cooool!

@Erythrothanatron 10 лет назад

That looks cool. I like the relativistic treatment of motion. Any plans to add relative velocity time dilation?

@chrisvisser-fee2631 9 лет назад

That's quite philosophical, actually. You don't move, the world moves around you. It could be a comment on... narcissism or something.

@boyos_gaming 10 лет назад

i'd buy it

@alllucky7s 10 лет назад

You might want to consider dynamically changing the radius of the detection circle according to the player's heat. As it is, they don't seem to mean much unless you know the underlying system. However, with several ships on the screen this might get really distracting, and the player could eventually learn how to work with the circles as they are right now.

@alllucky7s 10 лет назад

Also, my idea wouldn't work if you were to implement decoys (as per Adam Preece's suggestion).

@Pentadact 10 лет назад

You can't see it very well because of video compression, but there's a line that extends from the enemy ship to the player, showing how close to detection you are. The hotter you are the closer it comes to touching you, particularly as you get closer. I'm gonna make it clearer, possibly like a searchlight cone reaching out to you.

@sorry987654321 9 лет назад

hey, how are you ? can you please please tell me how you did the zooming and parallax background for heat signature ? I tried parallax moving surfaces or just one surface but updating the position of the stars each step or even using colored vertices but the fps just always drop to much. Do you save every star position into an array ? And the bigger the view gets by zooming out the bigger the problem becomes. I'm at my wits' end. It seems like that was pretty easy for you but I'm already working on it for weeks. I'd be so thankful for your help. And you would be the most awesome person ever : ) thank you very much

@spacedoubt15 10 лет назад

Have you considered using this as a mini-game inside a larger game? Initially just to transport a character between worlds but later have them pilot-stealth into areas and/or engage patrols of enemies?

@Kerpunk12 10 лет назад

Are you going to add some sort of gravity to the game, so you have to fling around planets and such? Was it in the latest podcast you were speaking about something like that? Either way that would be pretty cool :p

@nuazak 10 лет назад

it'd be a cool way to change course without having to accelerate and thus heat up your engine

@Soulsphere001 8 лет назад

So I'm guessing the star positions are all randomized. Do you keep track of the star positions when they're created or are they always just recreated when they appear on the screen? ... Or are you using predetermined background images?

@BrenJeebus 10 лет назад

Fuck'n COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLL

@Game-Garden 5 лет назад

how did you make everything else move around the player?

@iirelu 10 лет назад

You should spend a few hours playing/watching KSP to learn space stuff.

@staff7773 10 лет назад

This reminds me of a game on the Amiga. Cannae remember the name... But, it had a ship called the 'Earthling' and many many other types of shits that you battled vs comp and other players. Anyone know what Im referring too?

@Esthlosian 10 лет назад

Could you explain how you managed to get the background object to tile horizontally/vertically? I'v been trying to do the same thing and I'm having difficultly getting it to work. Thanks

@Game-Garden 5 лет назад

did you ever figure it out?

@Poki3 10 лет назад

What would be the goal of the game?

@moonsteroid 6 лет назад

tom? or any1 else knows how to make an starfield like in the video?

@dontrestyourhead 10 лет назад

Does this mean the grappling hook game is not going to happen?

@NikaHarper 10 лет назад

Learning something new is hard. It's nice to return to something you're already familiar with, jam out for a while, and raise your spirits to tackle the unknown again.

@Pentadact 10 лет назад

NikaHarper Well put!

@sorry987654321 9 лет назад

why moving the universe around you ? couldn't you just as well move the view manually ? inprecision with floating numbers starts at something like a 15 digit number... is that too small or is there any other reason to use this approach ?

@JonWaterfall 10 лет назад

I would like to see a fuel limit and your guy explode due to overheating.

@MetrotomX5 10 лет назад

I don't understand game maker. In a "proper" language, an infinite world is easier, well, at least as infinite as your data types. May i make a suggestion? The player should move, only the camera should stay still. This allows camera effects like camera lag, and also stuff like the ship being able to have a non-infinite mass for collision detection.