Mohawk Mayhem

We’re sorry.

2006-08-16T18:53:00.000+02:00

This is a response to a multitude of emails that I have received in the past few days.
The emails are all criticizing the theme and name of a game (Mohawk mayhem) that we have developed during the spring of 2006. When choosing the theme and name of our game we never meant any offence to the Mohawks or any other native american tribe. Our inspiration was mostly old TV-shows and Comics, and our intention was not to promote hatred and/or racism.

We apologize to everyone that feels offended by our game, or its name.

This game was never intended to be published in any form, we made a choice to publish it on this blog, to promote the nebula engine and ourselves, that was a regrettable mistake.

Out of respect to the Mohawks and other native american tribes we are removing the downloadable files from this blog.

Video of the completed game

2006-06-09T02:40:00.000+02:00

A video of the game is now avaliable on google video, check it out!
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The game is finished!

2006-06-07T03:46:00.000+02:00

We have completed the game as far as we planned to do during the course, though I heard the progammers talking about doing some extras druring the summer.

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Mohawk Mayhem Team

2006-06-07T03:03:00.000+02:00

Programming:
Mikael Bauer
Nicklas Holmgren

Graphics:
Erik Åström
Carolina Dahlberg
Peter Bomark

If you wish to contact us, you'll find my email address in the "About Me" section of the sidebar, I will then relay messages to the other members of the team.

Credits

2006-06-07T03:01:00.000+02:00

Zev, for spending late hours solving bugs.

Starfall, for the wonderful music.

Wierd bug

2006-05-30T13:55:00.000+02:00

Our programmers finally managed to build a release version of the game, and I can test it out at home, on better hardware. But I've encountered a wierd problem, shown below in our spanking new menu screen.

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So right now the game is about a ghost caravan fighting ghost indians.

Comments, etc

2006-05-25T18:27:00.000+02:00

Anyone can now comment posts on this blog, no need to create an account.

There is an update comming soon, stay tuned.

Explosions!

2006-05-22T21:28:00.000+02:00

Exploding barrels! Will probably be changed to exploding bottles of firewater due to logistical problems with having to toss barrels around... For now, a screenshot of the gam running in dx7 mode, now with cowboys actually holding rifles, a poor woman covering in the center of the screen and the explosion of a barrel/bottle.

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Video snippet

2006-05-20T00:03:00.000+02:00

Here's a video snippet of the game captured earlier this week.

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Early Ingame Screenshots

2006-05-19T22:59:00.000+02:00

Here are a few early ingame screens, with comments from Mikael Bauer, one of the programmers engaged in the project.

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Graphics WIP

2006-05-19T22:45:00.000+02:00

Here's a few graphics WIP shots:

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Gamedoc

2006-05-19T22:10:00.000+02:00

Here is a cutout from our gamedoc:

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Background

2006-05-19T20:58:00.000+02:00

Indian Invasion is a western themed game built on the Nebula 2 graphics engine, by a group of students attending a course in game developement at gsCEPT in Skellefteå, Sweden.

Ok, a bit of background:
We were given an assignment as follows (in brief):

Task:
Develop a 3D clone based on of the following classical console games

Asteroids
Space Invaders
Breakout
Galaga
Galaxy

Requirements:

Nebula engine and the Maya integration shall be used.
Develop the level of abstraction so that new game levels can be created and tuned using scripts, The level of abstraction shall be documented so that it is easy for level designers to configure and create new game levels.
It must be possible to configure resolution, audio, level of difficulty etc in-game via a GUI.
There shall be a 2D GUI showing i.e. power, resources, radar, points …etc
Full documentation of game play and implementation using the document templates

From this we came up with a gamedesign based on the simple idea that indians are trying to steal away the precious women of a caravan headed towards the promising lands of the west. Naturally this forces the cowboys of the caravan to bring out their rifles and start to shoot away mindlessly.
Luckily enough, you are there to help out with the defences of the caravan circle that has been formed in times of utter need. You help the cowboys get their aim straight and defend their helpless women.

See the most recent post of this blog if any of this offends you.