One day to go before the end of the month, and I’ve got this month’s game Fallen Vega properly finished.

You play as one of hundreds of Dark spaceships, fighting in the long war against the Light spaceships. No hitpoints, a single bullet can destroy a spaceship or flip which side a Hub belongs to. And while you’re flying around, enjoy the soundtrack – it’s been the main focus of this month’s gamemaking effort. You can download it separately on Jamendo.

Controls:

When in Overview mode, hold the right mouse button to rotate the camera, and click on a hub to spawn a spaceship.

Once spawned, you can move the mouse to pitch and yaw, click to shoot, and use the mousewheel to control the throttle. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard controls: WASD or arrowkeys for pitch and yaw, QE for roll, ZX for throttle, Ctrl to shoot. Or for an Xbox controller, left thumbstick for pitch and yaw, triggers for roll, right thumbstick for throttle, A to shooot.

Downloads:
Windows
Mac
Linux

Good news! The soundtrack to Fallen Vega is now finished.

The game itself still needs a bit of polish over the next few days, but the music’s completely done and submitted to February Album-Writing Month. So that’s one monthly challenge complete. I’ve also uploaded it to Jamendo, you can download the whole thing there.

Downloads:
MP3 Album

Well, we’re now halfway through February, and I’ve made a start on this month’s game.

This month’s OneGameAMonth theme is “Sound”. So I’ve decided to scrap my previous February plan, and concentrate on getting a big dramatic orchestral soundtrack done, and then quickly hack together a game to use the soundtrack. I’m also planning to release the soundtrack as a February Album-Writing Month album.

Progress so far: eleven tracks (31 mins) of music done out of the fourteen I need, so I’m ahead of schedule. I also have some spaceship models, a 6DOF controller, and some vague plans for a 6DOF space shooter strategy game.

The trouble I have now, is that I’ve hit a monochrome look that I like a lot. But if I make a strategy game, I need some way of telling the two sides apart, and I can’t use colour without changing the look. Decisions, decisions…