New Gameplay Preview Video
HD LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN1y-b9TTnQ&hd=1
Our latest video is now online that shows what our new team has been up to! Please make sure you watch it in HD! There are a lot of new features highlighted among them are the new player ship design, tweaked gameplay, and a light peppering of cinematic gameplay.
In this new video we show our early city environment inside of an orbital colony. If you dig this video, please help us spread the word by retweeting, posting on Facebook, message boards, or just telling your friends next time you see them. I hope you’ll help us out!
And I really hope you’ll chime in and let our team know what you think! Cheers!
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The Weapons Video and New Control Scheme
about 10 months ago - 8 comments
HD LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n18u_7sYVxA&hd=1 Check out our new video! So we decided to drop mouse control for aiming. This was largely a balancing issue: giving the player full 360 degree control and the agility of the mouse cursor allowed for too much aim abuse and bullet spamming, so we decided to adjust the weapons axle to…
Entering Earth’s Atmosphere and a Music Sample
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
We have atmospheric entry! It looks better in motion, but being the tease that I am, I figured a time lapse would be more tasteful in a hipster kind of way. This scene is just a brief intro before one of the levels. The heat shield is made up of a few parts that breaks…
September 2011 Alpha Video!!
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Our latest video is now online! What do you think? We’re definitely not a bullet hell shmup. That, and we let you sacrifice agility to shoot in any direction which makes our gameplay a little different from traditional shmups. Our exact genre is more arcade or action-ish in nature, I suppose. We still don’t have…
Energy Blades are Go!
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
There was a point where our team had an epiphany. It occurred to us that since our player’s ship has a rotatable axle to mount weapons on, that if said weapon were a stick of some sort, one might feel an inclination to just smack approaching enemies. So it was on this day, boy and…
Here’s a Peek At What We’re Cookin’!
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
If the embedded video is giving you problems go straight to the source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBB-2iT0-N8 We have alpha footage ladies and gentlemen! And also, this occasion marks our first blog post to include video! The video is still an alpha, so please have mercy on us at this point. It’s not perfect (and we don’t have…
New Character Portraits for the Radio
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
There’s an accompanying story for this update ladies and gentlemen. About a week or two ago Dallas, Texas rather unusually iced over. The ice isn’t as dangerous as the people that don’t know how to drive on the ice (but don’t tell them that), so I decided to kick back and stay at home. I…
Skybox Test
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Here’s a little screen cap I snapped while I was doing a few tests with the skybox. This texture has a few small issues to iron out, but so far so good. This colony background will fill out all the areas behind our 3D geometry (skyscrapers, ships, lasers, etc.) to make the space colony look…
New Colony Concept Art
about 2 years ago - No comments
In HEAVEN VARIANT, much of the story revolves around the drama that ensues after humanity begins colonizing space near Earth’s orbit. This piece of concept art is the inside of a colony. Its feels overpopulated and grimy as moisture accumulates around the never ending urban skyline. It certainly isn’t a sci-fi utopia, but that’s okay!…
Let’s Talk Style
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
What’s this you might ask? Well. it started out as just a little internal color scheme test, but it really showed the style we’re aiming for so I figured I should toss it online. We really want HEAVEN VARIANT to have a style of its own so we’re using a really heavy-handed cartoon aesthetic. The…
Heaven Variant has Arrived
about 2 years ago - No comments
Welcome to the official HEAVEN VARIANT development blog. We’ll be updating this dev blog regularly with plenty of info, screenshots, videos, music, podcasts, and more. HEAVEN VARIANT is a modernized throwback to the classic side scrolling shooter genre and is being produced by Zanrai Interactive, a Dallas, Texas based indie game studio. The game’s presentation…
about 1 year ago
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It looks amazing, I’m a huge fan of … pretty much everything that’s going on here. The retro arcade music, the voice acting that sounds just cheesey enough that I can -imagine- it was the result of a localization effort to bring us a Japanese game, and what looks to be a really neat combat system that I can’t wait to try.
Another comment I have, though, is I’ve seen the link to this blog post tossed around in at least two different forums, but I was surprised when I saw that it didn’t have any comments; I’m pretty sure this is because registration for commenting is something that turns a lot of people who wouldn’t mind leaving a quick comment away, but if you guys are just going off of the comments on the YouTube videos, then it probably doesn’t matter so much.
I’d like to personally express my interest if you were to offer anything like paid Alpha trials, since I’m always up for helping to fund indie games if it means I get to try out the works in progress.
Keep up the good work, and I hope you guys make a real hit! It’s looking amazing.
about 1 year ago
Thanks, man! Our team appreciates it! Yeah, as far as comment registration goes, spambots were becoming a serious problem not long ago which is why I went ahead and required registration. :/ I know not a lot of people dig that, I don’t personally, but it’s either that or lewd advertisements. With that said, I’m more than happy if people are talking on other online venues though. If people are talking about the game at all makes me peachy keen!
Thanks again for the kind words!
about 1 year ago
Wow, the game is coming along great!
I’m loving the R-Type feel it’s got and I like the direction you’re going by combining a retro feel with complex graphics. Keep up the great work!
One thing that instantly caught my eye was the “warp speed tunnel” which can use a little work. It doesn’t feel fast enough for what you’re trying to put out.
Keep up the great work, can’t wait to give you all my money to play with this
about 1 year ago
I saw this was on destructoid, congrats Jason and your team
it’s looking wicked great
about 1 year ago
Thanks a lot, bro!! :]