[WIP] SR:OPS (formerly "Stealth Action Game")

Okay, so I'm kind of nervous posting this as it is still pretty early and this is a first attempt in C2, but I'm finally starting to nail down some of the gameplay elements so I thought I'd share.

Click here to play: SR:OPS Demo

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SR:OPS started out as a basic top-down shooter, but after figuring out some groovy lighting (Flashlight with dynamic shadows! W00T!) effects and making them core gameplay mechanics, I decided to lean more towards a stealth game.

I'm interested in everyone's opinions so far, as well as how well it performs for you. I'm developing/testing on a rather low-end PC and I get a pretty solid 30+ frames a second, which is acceptable for this game, but I worry about it dropping too low later on.

UPDATE: Enemies now patrol way points, and will return to patrol if they lose sight of you after a while.

Looking good so far. specially for first project <img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" border="0" align="middle" />. I have decent computer so there is no performance problems.

Thanks! Do you think it's too dark overall?

Nice, but i would like to destroy the TV while shooting it.

Whats your host?

Nice, but i would like to destroy the TV while shooting it.

lol...sick minds shoot alike. i was trying to kill that tv too...for a while.

> Nice, but i would like to destroy the TV while shooting it.

lol...sick minds shoot alike. i was trying to kill that tv too...for a while.

I failed to find enemies.

LOL, I'll make sure to make the TV destructible. Not a bad idea to be able to shoot out lighting in a stealth game :)

Yes, enemies are just the three guys for now- still working on the AI but it's getting there.

As for hosting, I work at an ISP so I have a private server in our datacenter. It's not much for speed, but it does the job.

That looks just great, i love it!

UPDATE: (slightly) better enemy AI, and baked lightmaps - also expanded the building a little bit for testing the lightmaps

I really like where you're going with it! Maybe it's still a bit too dark, or I'm just having trouble differentiating where the doorways were. I can spot the color change, but I have to look really closely.

Thanks for that - I changed the door color, it helps a lot I think.

I'm think of going with the name "SR:OPS". SR would be short for SUb ROsa (which is already a game name, so I can't just use that as I wanted to).

Anyway, I added title screen, mission briefs, and some more stuff last night if anyone wishes to track progress :)

I appreciate the input!

You're welcome, and I hope we get to see more updates!

I updated the original post with newer screenshots and a link to the new demo. You can now play through the first level to completion.

I ended up ditching the noise effect entirely - now that I have some decent art in the game I wanted to be able to see it clearly :)

New demo link is here.

edit: Whoops! Forgot to add the code to make it possible to LOSE the game, lol. Link updated.

Hi, nice demo!

great graphics and love the atmosphere,

the animated scanline effects on the briefing screen makes me a little bit dizzy though,

run great and no performance issue on my desktop,

I have a few suggestion,

maybe add a silent takedown mechanics, to bring down guards without noise

and since it's a stealth mission, don't you think it's better to bring a gun with a silencer?