This is the official thread for all things Recon. Please make any comments here! All news will be shared here and on my Scratch Blog as it is being developed. And looked back upon. Etc.

Recon will be everything you expect from a game - quality gameplay, amazing storyline, and (most importantly) game length. Recon will have all of that - it will redefine the space-shooter genre. You play as Elizabeth, a USMF worker who finds herself in the middle of the USMF/UKMF Space War, trying to fight to survive the battle.

Coming Soon!
Meet the Development Team:
FireNinjaGAME, co-owner of Waterfall Studios and the person who brought you SwatMeNot and contributed to Serenity in Serenity Mod.]
botcrusher, the creator of Serenity and the assistant developer of Recon.]
ProjectB… Owner of Waterfall Studios, and an animations specialist for Recon. And now with a new account!

Current Developmental Progress: Unknown.

Current Team Assignments
FireNinjaGAME - Finish the menu and begin to branch development into the actual game. Oh, and manage the entire development team at the same time. Fun.

botcrusher - Please try to improve the engine's enemies. See the post in the thread.

ProjectB - ProjectB is not going to be online for awhile, as he is visiting family.

Other Links:
Files (Available on Google Drive)
Old Thread
More coming soon!

COMING SOON

Update: I added the link to the files. And I will be doing a lot more today…

Files will be updated whenever there is something that I want to release (although, mostly, there won't be.) Other than that, updates will come every weekend.

Update: Work-In-Progress Coming-Soon Signatures!

This is a WIP version of the “Coming Soon” signatures for Recon. I don't know if I will use these. I made it in MS Paint, but I want to remake it with GIMP so that it will be more controlled… I don't know yet.

Main Signature:


Retro Color Signature:


Retro B/W Classic Signature:


Code for the signatures can be found here.

Let me know if there are any problems with the signatures!

Update: Waterfall Studios Loading Screen!

This is a quick and dirty logo screen for Waterfall Studios. Once cloud lists are implemented, this screen will serve to distract you from the real time it takes to load all of the cloud-save data (Yes, there will be cloud-saving. Well, if I can, anyhow.)

Alright,
just a little background beat, got it.

Update: Menu Wireframe

This is just a template for the menu, and it is a work-in-progress.

See it here.

Done here it is:
Recon Loopable

botcrusher wrote:

Done here it is:
Recon Loopable

Good work! New jobs for you will be published in the Assignments chart!
By the way, you may want to include one of the signatures that I published in your signature.

Ah the level engine, just what i was waiting on you to assign me, this is going to be fun

botcrusher wrote:

Ah the level engine, just what i was waiting on you to assign me, this is going to be fun

I can't wait to see the result of the fun. Recon is really getting going fast!

Going to be offline for about an hour, so continue on. I am not going to be able to develop much more today.

I just want to finish off this day by saying great work. We've already made great strides… and it is only its first day in development.

Wishing this project luck!

Alright yesterday i managed to get that smooth movement style that i loved in space war 4
i also managed to get some pause command implemented
today i will be doing the grunt work of the engine


P.S
after recon is done don't get any huge plans on 'cause i have a great idea that is going to rock
*cough* 3D fps that will work *cough*

botcrusher wrote:

Alright yesterday i managed to get that smooth movement style that i loved in space war 4
i also managed to get some pause command implemented
today i will be doing the grunt work of the engine


P.S
after recon is done don't get any huge plans on 'cause i have a great idea that is going to rock
*cough* 3D fps that will work *cough*

Alright. I wouldn't be making another game for at least a few months… Although I could start planning a story for it once this is done.

Oh, and good luck to your other projects!

The engine is coming along it is a custom block, set to load the settings per each level i'll let you configure that part once i'm done

botcrusher wrote:

The engine is coming along it is a custom block, set to load the settings per each level i'll let you configure that part once i'm done

Perfect! That will work VERY nicely…

i can implement a friendly AI that has configurable intelligence, do you want it?

botcrusher wrote:

i can implement a friendly AI that has configurable intelligence, do you want it?

Sure!

By the way, I forgot to mention a feature, which would be an inventory that could hold weapons you got from shops? IDK, maybe it can be added later, but it does mean that it would need some amount of data out of the project… So don't fill up too much!

Oh, and great work!

FireNinjaGAME wrote:

botcrusher wrote:

i can implement a friendly AI that has configurable intelligence, do you want it?

Sure!

By the way, I forgot to mention a feature, which would be an inventory that could hold weapons you got from shops? IDK, maybe it can be added later, but it does mean that it would need some amount of data out of the project… So don't fill up too much!

Oh, and great work!

heheh no that you are on that track i can make a full customization system armor, weapons, thrusters, etc.
I'll slap the AI in too

botcrusher wrote:

heheh no that you are on that track i can make a full customization system armor, weapons, thrusters, etc.
I'll slap the AI in too

?
EDIT: Never mind, there was just a typo that confused me.