3D Gamestudio Gamedevelopment 3DGS A6 A7 - free engine tutorials models shaders textures codes

As HeelX announced yesterday, a freeware xmas game with opensource litec code and a great tutorial will be released on christmas eve this year! He said:

“RUDI” is an open source Christmas game. Experience fun and action in a living & graphically stunning world packed with passion and wonder, elves, sweet penguins, eskimo villages and lots of gifts to collect. Travel around the world with Rudi - the presents got lost everywhere. Each gift you collect adds a sleigh to your chain.. don’t cross them! Santa will give you some delicious gingerbread cookies for every sleigh at the end of each level, so make sure to collect as many as possible!

Rudi is a game for everyone. Beginners can start promptly, without reading a manual. You will control Rudi with the cursor keys only. If you are a hardcore gamer, you will love it too, as some packets are really well-hidden and require a lot of skill to capture them.

As if that were not enough, we added a complete do-it-yourself game development workshop! Create your own games with the A7 game engine with ease and the help of this well-structured e-book. Learn about the development process, the game mechanics and its tricks. Code examples and pictures will guide you through it and make game development a pleasure.

One level demo featuring the Northpole will be released on Christmas Eve 2007.

You can also watch a gameplay movie here at YouTube. Or have a look at more screenshots here. I’m really excited about this project and the whole tutorial! Because i think they are a great gift for the 3dgs gamestudio community, especially because this is about A7 and litec.

Congratulations to Torsten Fock for winning the second place at the german contest ‘Newcomer Award’ sponsored by gamesload. This contest was especially for new or indie game developers during the german development award (Deutscher Entwicklerpreis). He won with his game ‘Messing Moves’ a gamestudio project , where you have to load all your belongings from your house into a big truck. Its a physics game if i’m not mistaken. Its nice to see someone using the 3DGS engine finish this high with lots of competition! The other teams that won, are big teams with at least 4 members - so Torsten can now make a big relaxation holiday with his 3000€ price and have all the cool drinks for himself and his girlfriend. See the german page for more information and pictures of the winners.

I just wanted to let you know, that iam quite happy with the release of the Marble Sheep Game the so far. The majority of comments was nice, thanks a lot for that. Also a big thanks to the first customer Kiyaku, check out his game Angelas World too.

If you want to show some love, you could digg the story at digg.com and help spread the word. I also posted a link over at Milk & Cookies wich you are welcome to rate. Of cause check out the free demo, if you haven’t alread.

For those of you curious about the download figures, i think after 3 days i got like ~700 downloads now and i just started to advertise here and there. I also received some awards for the game from various download sites. Lets see what will happen in the future… i’m now off to do some university studies, have a nice weekend!