Anyone interested in an XCOM demake? I'm making one called "YCOM" :D

[grilledcheese]

I've been working on a fan-made demake (that is, a retro remake) of XCOM: Enemy Unknown! I'm wondering what people think of it so far, so here's a YouTube video of it!

Reddit Post with Download Link

Check me out!

[Burbot]

For PC I wouldn't be interested, but as others said, for phone or tablet I would.

Impressive for a personal project, nice job.

[Kai]

I'd like to give it a try. Even for PC seeing as I dont have a windows phone

[Milk]

Nguyên văn bởi grilledcheese:

Thanks guys! I'll be sure to put up a download link after I do some more work on it! :D

+5 internets for you.

[grilledcheese]

I'm going to make an offical post later, but here's a quick link to the new YouTube video with links to the Dropbox!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCU45CdnqI

[Milk]

All this money is burning holes in my pocket.

[grilledcheese]

Heh, I'm sorry it took so long. I've added a few new features, but I've been busy getting to it.

[Milk]

Also, your aliens look like the Locust from Gears of War. Just saying.

[Drunk-Side Jedi]

I absolutely swear I've played this before. Was this game featured in "The Sawbuck Gamer" in the Onion A.V. Club or The Gameological Society ?

[grilledcheese]

It can't have been, since I literally just released it. (Except a private version I distributed to the university game club a few months ago, but I doubt it got around that far) If it was featured anywhere, definately show me that!

[Drunk-Side Jedi]

Hmmm, I did a search on both those sites and came back with nothing - that's where I normally pick up indie games like this. "The Sawbuck Gamer" used to be a monthly column at the A.V. Club until they set up a sister site called the Gameological Society and moved their video game coverage there. It does short write-ups on games like this that you can either find free or cheap online. I'm not sure if they do remakes like this though.

http://gameological.com/category/review/sawbuck/

I don't have it anywhere on my harddrive, and can't think where else I might have gotten it from. Maybe I'm just mistaken and just saw the video back when you made it in Feburary and only thought I had played it.

[Drunk-Side Jedi]

I had a lot of fun with this! I think you did an excellent job of putting a lot of the mechanics of X-Com in a tidy, fast-paced, quick-playing package. I liked a lot of the expressions too - "Oh, that's why my soldiers always miss - they close their eyes when they shoot!" I also feel your movement system solves a problem with 2K's system - that there's no real clear way to confirm that you have a shot before you lock in your move.

Few things:

- It's a bit annoying that there's no way to exit the game without killing the process.
- typo after you promote, it says "soilder"
- There's no way to lose then?
- Is there a longer research tree planned? I noticed when you researched Alien Armor that it referenced interrogations, and said new projects were available but I didn't see any.
- There's a visual bug when two upcoming events are going to fall on the same day. They sort of ghost and flicker and combine with one another.

Is there any way that I can get easily updated as to when you make additions to this?

[grilledcheese]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it and took the time to give me feedback! :D

1. I used ESCAPE for back, but F1 will bring up the menu (which you can quit from).
2. Haha, yeah. I'm a terrible speller, but I'll probably fix that for the next version.
3. You COULD lose if you ran out of money and all countries and soldiers died... But, in this version you can't really fully die.
4. Perhaps, I ran out of time. The "new project" I think meant the Workshop item was available. I really wanted to do interactive interrogations with aliens, dialog trees and stuff, but the game scope is too small to make it worthwhile at this point.
5. Ah! I've seen that bug, but never realized that's what caused it. I can fix that up easy.

I would create a website, but I've been busy lately. For now, I'll probably post to this thread (you can subscribe to it if you want), and my YouTube channel. Hopefully I'll make one in the future :)

Again, thanks for the feedback! I wanted to make a faster, mini XCOM. If you enjoyed it, feel free to share it with sites or friends!

[76561198093095007]

Oh man this would be killer on the Android OS!

[Milk]

Nguyên văn bởi dishhonored:

Oh man this would be killer on the Android OS!

^ Android exclusive. Screw those iOS hipsters.