PAX 2013 Australia Indie Showcase, check!
After one full month of working long hours after work on weekdays and weekends. After countless amounts of hardcore programming, hacking and tinkering. Oxygene is on its way to the judges for consideration in the PAX Australian Indie Showcase.

Highlighting the best of the Australian & New Zealand Indie Game Development scene, the AIS brings select titles chosen by industry vets to the show floor.

The 2013 PAX Aus Indie Showcase is a feature of independent games to be exhibited at PAX Aus. This is a contest exclusively for indie games. This contest is only open to people from Australia and New Zealand.

As a winner we would receive an awesome 9 sqm shell scheme stand space in the PAX Aus Exhibition Hall to demo our game to tens and thousands of gamers, media and industry-folk.

A huge thanks to Jussi (AdventureIslands) and Guerin (Spamtron) for all their awesome work getting the graphics and music done for the Demo build.

Bring on PAX Australia 2013 and wish us luck!
Clouds and Windmills and Platforms and Gears

Oxygene Sky Level

Here we have another brilliant mockup by AI. This is the world that Oxygene will battle against Argon Nitro the Air Guardian (dry air contains roughly (by volume) 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases) - for science.

Sky Station research institute explores wind and weather, and how to harness it for energy production and weather control. The station is suddently under attack by Argon Nitro; flying master robot with a power over wind. Oxygene must fight his way through the crazed robots of the station and face Argon, and stop her from reaching the weather controls and causing the biggest, most dangerous storm in centuries.

Applications for the PAX Aus Indie Showcase (AIS) are now open!

PAX Aus Indie Dev Showcase

Highlighting the best of the Australian & New Zealand Indie scene, the AIS brings select titles chosen by industry vets to the show floor.

The 2013 PAX Aus Indie Showcase is a feature of independent games to be exhibited at PAX Aus. This is a contest exclusively for indie games.  This contest is only open to people from Australia and New Zealand.  For additional eligibility requirements, see below.

We’re proud to announce that we’re going to to submit Oxygene into the showcase!

The Deadline to submit is April 10th, 2013 and the pressure is on!

Please wish us the best of luck.

I’ll send you the valve locations as you go. Damn if the internet isn’t a thing of beauty.

That’s a quote from —Zeke, In FAMOUS 2.

The Voice with an Internet Connection is the helpful person at the other end of the main character’s earpiece. They give the character all sorts of useful advice that is either blisteringly obvious or frustratingly cryptic, presumably sourced from the Internet or some other information compendium.

In some cases, the Voice has an unexplained video and audio feed, and in others, an explained video and audio feed. Rarely, the voice will rely on information from the main character to tell them what is going on. In this last case, there will be a dramatic scene where the screen cuts to black and the Voice screams with concern for the main. The character varies in personality from grizzled commanding officer to cute young nurse to English scholar, but the two things the Voices have in common are a complete knowledge of whatever the main character happens to be doing and a complete lack of physical presence. Most often, this character is the opposite gender to the character to whom he or she speaks. The Voice with an Internet Connection serves two purposes. The first is as a way of explaining things about the game world to the player, and the second is to give the character someone to talk to throughout the game, thus developing the character as either a philandering badass or a chick with ‘tude. The former is for all male characters, and the latter for female characters, unless the main is a Heroic Mime. If the main is the silent type the Voice talks more, sometimes saying what the main normally would. This character appears far more often in modern day and science fiction than in other genres, and almost never in fantasy, where the Voice’s role is generally played by a related character. The name Voice with an Internet Connection is taken from the fact that these are the archetype’s only defining traits, and in many cases, the character’s only role. This character in video games is prone to dying, betraying the player or discouraging the player (most common in indie flash games). Related to The Voice, Expositron 9000 and Mr. Exposition, the Voice with an Internet Connection is distinguished from them by being a disembodied character who advances the plot as well as a character with a distinct personality, something rare outside of videogames.

Compare Mission Control, Earpiece Conversation.

I guess you could look at Sushnagege as your so called Voice with an Internet Connection. So he’s essentially Gene’s sidekick.

Original Source: link.

The doctor is here and ready to examine you.

Professor Zaychik is the main antagonist of Oxygene, you could say she is the Dr. Wily of this game.

Professor Sushnagege and Zaychik used to work together on robotics, but one day Zaychik suddenly took control of their creations and took over the research lab they worked in. Sushnagege barely escaped with his life, and is now hiding in a hidden, run down laboratory of his own. Sushnagege built Oxygene in secret, and sends him on a quest to defeat Zaychik and her 4 master robots, known as the Guardians, who are trying to take over the world!

..or so it seems at first, what is Zaychik really up to? Can Oxygene discover the truth before it’s too late to save everyone?

Professor Zaychik

I thought I’d show the tutorial stage being played on an iPhone 5.

Oxygene utilises the full width of the iPhone 5 and retina capabilities and will support all device versions below as well (incl. iPad screen size).

Full iP5 width is 284 pixels and 160 pixels in height. I added a FPS (frames per second) indicator on the bottom to show that it’s running at an average of 60fps!

Being a platform agnostic engine the wrapper I’m using is an Open Source JavaScript, Canvas & Audio Implementation for iOS.

JavaScript code is executed directly by a JavaScript VM (JavaScriptCore), the HTML5 Canvas API is implemented in native code with OpenGL, Audio is implemented with OpenAL. Several other APIs (touch, accelerometer, localStorage, etc) behave like they would in a real browser.

The wrapper runs on all iOS devices that support the armv7 instruction set: the iPhone3GS and newer as well as all iPads including the first generation. It supports the retina resolution of all devices and the taller iPhone5 screen size as mentioned above.

This is part of the training stage for Oxygene. It’s still a work in progress so please be aware that it’s quite buggy in some parts.

You might notice a slow motion mechanic that occurs in a certain area. What will this mechanic allow Gene to do? Stop time? Reverse time? Who knows just yet.

We have lava!

Oxygene Volcano Level Mockup Screenshot

Here’s a mockup screenshot of the volcanic lava level in Oxygene. Gene needs to travel into four different areas and challenge their bosses. The Fire Guardian resides deep inside an active volcano.

An industrial complex has been built inside a huge active volcano, because of the intense heat, it’s mainly operated by robots and their purpose is to keep the volcano in check and cool enough so it does not erupt and destroy its surrounding area.

Unfortunately one of evil professor Zaychik’s guardians (Ignis Pyro) has entered the complex and caused the robots to behave erratically, in an attempt to cause the volcano to erupt. Oxygene must enter the volcano, fight his way through the lava and crazed robots, and eventually face Ignis and stop him before it’s too late!

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