Welcome again to the GameGuru weekly news.

We have more updates to report as we’ve continued with a wave of improvements. Two updates last week with each one aimed at improving some very important areas. We also report on an exciting new multiplayer feature coming very soon. So…

Multiplayer mayhem teams up!

One the the most fun additions in the last week, both for the development team to add as well as play test has been the new Team Deathmatch feature. No longer will users be restricted to single player carnage, now you’ll be able to join a team to fight it out. Supporting up to 2 teams of 4, the default setting will be the first team to reach 30 kills being declared the winner.  Level designers will also be able to toggle friendly fire for those who feel their level isn’t dangerous enough.

We’re on the final stages of testing now and expect this great addition to be with all users early any day this week!

 

Tutorials

To support our multiplayer development, Rick has created this very useful guide to hosting and joining multiplayer games, so click below to learn everything you’ve ever needed to joining the multiplayer fun in GameGuru. The servers are open 24/7 and users are often online hosting or waiting to participate in a game, so why not get involved?

Don’t forget you can see all of the other tutorials created by GameGuru users as well as the development team here.

 

 

 

Now that GameGuru has gone live on Steam and is in the hands of many capable users, we wanted to take a moment and unveil a new reward for the GameGuru Community: User of the Month Badge!
This monthly Award is bestowed upon one user in the Community who has shown not only exceptional knowledge of GameGuru but has also got involved more deeply with the GameGuru community as a whole. The bearer of this Badge will be someone to look up to, someone who is not only open to any and all questions but also willing to help users whenever they can.

The benefits of User of the Month
1) A unique badge (next to your avatar), to show the GameGuru community your elevated status, dedication and support of GameGuru developers.
2) 5,000 GameGuru Store Points!

The User of the Month will be chosen by the TheGameCreators Team each month. The holder of this Badge will be selected because of their consistent and exceptional behavior with other community members as well as their GameGuru knowledge and unending desire to help others. There can be only one badge holder at a time, so the torch will be passed at the end of each month to the next User of the Month. We hope you will join us, in congratulating each month’s winner of this important Community Award!

This months Winner is….

SmallG for his/her excellent and continued support of the community and valued scripting advice, we will be contacting them shortly to arrange the 5,000 store points.

Here is a small example of the helpfulness they have provided to the community.

Congratulations SmallG and many thanks for everything you do for our community.

From the Galleries

This week we’ve chosen two screenshots from the Steam Artwork Zone, we’re always very impressed but these two stood out as something extra special, one as a beautiful screenshot and the other as some very impressive concept art.

An amazing screenshot: Night City Docks – By Rolfy proves yet again why he is becoming a GameGuru master!

The next contribution is by Nameguy and is a wonderful use of the Steam artwork feature. This user has created a great concept map for their planned game, you can also see some screenshots from the work so far on the Steam gallery.

From the store

A lot of new media has been uploaded over the last few weeks, some of which we’ve already showcased, but we thought we’d give you a little more information about some of these great packs and assets by showing you some screenshots of the them in situ.

Abandoned Terra-forming Plant by Wolf

Wolf says:

This Model pack contains everything you need to design futuristic sci-fi colonies /camps.
They fit well in GameGurus’ terrain system and are gorgeous to design complex skylines.
The Pack features enough variation to even create little sci-fi towns.
This pack has leaned on retro-futuristic designs from the 70s and 80s but I kept it contemporary enough to fit in a more modern vision of the future.
Please note that while the focus of the pack was on worn and rusty assets I have also included a large amount of clean entities for games that are set in a brighter future!

World War 2 assets pack #2 by BSP

Part of BSP’s growing range of WW2 themed media, this pack is focused on indoor items. A total of 71 models, including bunker & chateau furniture and paintings, which you will find useful in not only World War 2 styled games, but a large number of more modern genres.

ErrantAI has a number of great packs on the store, the scene above was created from 3 of his packs, Billards Pack, Snack Attack Pack and his latest, Fibre Glass furniture pack.

All are excellent value and are valuable resource for any GameGuru user.

The 4th level design competition

As a reminder to all you budding level designers out there, the 4th level design competition draws to a close this Wednesday 18th March at midnight GMT.

We’ve already had a number of entries, but if you’re leaving it to the last minute to submit your level, don’t forget the deadline. So for your chance to win $200 and 5,000 store points and for the possibility  that your level be included in a future release of GameGuru, get creating now. We are looking to award prizes for the 5 best maps; so there’s several chances to win.

A final reminder of the rules;

The Rules

1) You may use any default media that comes with GameGuru.

2) You MAY NOT use any other media, custom scripts, music or audio effects. Just the content that ships with GameGuru.

3) You may only use the default Skyboxes that ship with GameGuru

4) You may only use the default terrains that ship with GameGuru

5) You can create your level for between 2 and 8 players. We’d advise you to avoid making levels too big and also too small.

6) You can only use the default weapons that ship with GameGuru. Note that weapons and ammo re-spawn during multi-player games so don’t go crazy placing down lots of weapons and ammo.

7) Please email just the (mapfiles (FPM’s) located in the mapbank folder) to Dave Hawkins at scenecommanderTGC@gmail.com

Ensure you use the format USER – FORUM -COMPETITION4.

e.g thescenecommander-steam-competition4 in the subject line.

Entries that do not meet this criteria will be disqualified.

8) You must include the following information in your email.

8.1  Your real name

8.2  A valid email for an active PayPal account as we cannot offer cash prizes via any other means

8.3  The map file “FPM” (attached to the email).

Map files are stored here; Program Files/Steam/Steamapps/Common/Game Guru/Files/Mapbank

9) All entries must be received by midnight GMT 18th March 2015.

10) The competition will be judged by at least two members of TheGameCreators staff and their decision will be final.

 

What’s new in GameGuru since last week?

V1.00.0018

• Ensured weapons that do not specify GUN texture internal or external assume GUN_D.DDS
• Fixed weapon jam logic so single shot weapons do not jam when LMB held down
• Moved MELEE KEY and SWITCHTOALT to SETUP.INI and disabled from GUNSPEC.TXT
• Muzzle Spot Flash now happens in FRONT of weapon, not at camera position
• Muzzle Spot Flash color now taking colour RGB from GUNSPEC.TXT as required
• Weapons now correctly dry fire when they run out of ammo or get jammed
• Sunset Island multiplayer level has been updated so players do not start too high of the floor
• Fixed issue of extracted entity switching from static to dynamic
• Fixed issue of rockets and ray casts going through entities on subsequent multiplayer sessions
• Fixed rabbit characters so they no longer sink into the floor
• All string entries in entity properties clipped to 63 characters
• Gun decals for Store and custom weapons are now used in multiplayer
• Light maps in a multiplayer map no longer cause a crash (light maps are not used)
• Fixed a rare crash bug relating to distance of entities

V1.00.0019

• Fixed an issue in the importer where the mouse would disappear sometimes when saving
• When hosting a multiplayer map containing light maps, the system will now use them and show them in the game.
• On initial spawn in a multiplayer game you can no longer invisibly move
• Added polish to end of a multiplayer game to fade out neatly
• Fixed an error relating to a missing image

Looking to talk to fellow developers?

Don’t forget we also have a community forum. We encourage you to sign up and become part of our community. We’re actively developing the forums to make them easy to use, great for sharing and a place to collaborate together. So if you’re looking for some modelling advice, some scripting assistance or just want to see what other GameGuru users are up to, this is a great place to visit.

Signing out

Here we are again, bringing another weekly update to a close.  For us here at TheGameCreators development this week will be divided into two. One will be focused on fixing lots of small niggles users have raised with us since GameGuru launched while on the other side we’ll be working more on multiplayer. So we hope to have some nice treats for both schools of GameGuru enthusiasts. You can expect these and other updates during this week.

As always don’t forget Lee blog in it’s new location here and thank you all for your awesome support.

So, until then, enjoy GameGuru and keep telling us what you’re up to and what you’d like to see as GameGuru develops.

The GameGuru team