Here's a preview of our first 3D game, fully developed with Minko, our flash 3D engine.
It it still a technical preview, so all you can do for the moment is walking around and look at the level design.




Blogpost, more information :
http://blog.aerys.in...ll-nazi-aliens/

Play the game :
http://blacksun.aerys.in/

You can shoot and throw a flare (with E) to see better

That's pretty cool. Minko looks great too. Is this your job, or a hobby?

It's my job, although I don't work on Minko and didn't work on Black Sun. I work on Orbit a multi-platform network API, the other major technology we are developing.

Good impression so far!

Any game where you get to kill nazi aliens is good to me!

But I'm not the best judge of games because it takes me a while for the gameplay to become intuitive, so I consulted my son Connor, who is 13 and of course, really into games, especially PC games, He remarked how the pulse rifle was kind of like the rifle from Aliens. And Connor being the valve software fanboy that he is, says the overall style is like Alien Swarm (this is a good thing!) he thought the game had some impressive shadows, and nice light/dark contrast - this I could agree just by the stills here and what I watched of him play testing.

I just had a quick look at the blog post and will check that out (and the game for myself, later) but thought I'd mention also that I liked the promotional 'propaganda' poster for the game.

whirlygirl, on 20 January 2012 - 8:29 AM, said:

Haha ! Yes we inspired from Alien Swarm, and if I remember correctly the gun was inspired by Alien. Connor's good !

Ben_j, on 20 January 2012 - 7:00 AM, said:

Oh, he will be stoked when he hears this was inspired by Alien Swarm and Alien!


Keep posted when the game progresses. If not here then on Facebook. If you're in the market for beta testers or want feedback later on, I know a kid who probably would be interested in giving the game a go.