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I don't know whether to post here or make it a new topic, but we are thinking of being more creative and allowing you to build your own types of vehicles from a collection of ready made parts. So the basic list goes something like this.. Vehicles: You create the parts to make the vehicles that you can afford, or that you need, to suit your world. CHASSIS Small - Stand on Small 4 wheel , light, medium or heavy weight. Medium 6 wheel, light, medium or heavy weight. Static base . 1 to 8 blocks. Power unit: Push Steam Oil Electric Fusion Power Crystals Traction: light wheels, Strong wheels All terrain wheels Ski Tracks Flying Hover Helicopter blades Jet Anti gravity Space Propulsion Armour: Wood Hard wood Copper Bronze Iron Steel Carbon Steel Alloys Work bits: Drill Medium Drill Large Drill WTF Drill Lasers 1-5 Wrecking ball Lump hammer 1-5 You create the Vehicle combination, add the power supply, add in the work bits, and get constructing. Modding options will allow for player designed, vehicles, in various models and graphical styles to be created and available as downloads. Buildings. Buildings and vehicles can be created from any block of any material, and saved as a ‘plan’. If you want to recreate a building you choose a spot and place the ‘plan’ in the build list. Your engineer minifigs will then try and build it from materials that you have in storage. You can purchase and sell designs, to other players. There will be an online site for choosing, rating and voting on the best plans, functionality, good design, and cool new looks. What do you think? The code will allow for MODS, so original Lego rock raiders models can go in from fans designs (we will not be able to do this as a pre-defined set) but create your vehicles and design a mesh 'look' for it I think would be cool - your input please!

[3:50:11 PM] McJobless: Oh my lordy. [3:50:13 PM] McJobless: What the hell. [3:50:21 PM] McJobless: My dream... [3:50:24 PM] McJobless: What the actual f****. [3:51:07 PM] McJobless: So...it started off with the news that Russia would be doing some debates and Stalin was currently living in a house on top of a hill. [3:51:37 PM] McJobless: So we skipped a bit and suddenly I was with my friend and f****ing Ali Cat of all the people on the f****ing planet. [3:51:57 PM] McJobless: And for whatever reason she was working at this lodge where they had motherf****ing pokemon. [3:52:30 PM] McJobless: So, I was pretty upset that since my last dream about pokemon (years and years and years ago), I still didn't have one. [3:52:49 PM] McJobless: And I was even more upset you needed all this paperwork and a license to go look for one. [3:53:06 PM] McJobless: And even then you're not guarenteed to get one since the Pokemon has to "choose you". [3:53:17 PM] McJobless: This lodge apparently owned all the forest land for miles. [3:53:38 PM] McJobless: So my friend was laughing hard at my pissed off reactions to just about everything. [3:53:46 PM] McJobless: I was shooting things, throwing things... [3:54:08 PM] McJobless: I went outside, and there was this mother f****ing flame pokemon and he was like "I choose you motherf****er." [3:54:10 PM] McJobless: [3:54:19 PM] McJobless: And then there was some news that in Russia... [3:54:29 PM] McJobless: And I can't believe this was actually in my dream. [3:54:45 PM] McJobless: The entire population of Russia had decided to troll Stalin. [3:55:02 PM] McJobless: So now people dressed like Hitler were delivering his mail, poping out of the bushes etc. [3:55:09 PM] McJobless: And then I woke up. [3:56:56 PM] John: wtf

Though LRR is classed as an RTS, you do realize that it's not a military/war RTS, right? Lego are adamant that things are family friendly, hense no guns, death etc, however in focus groups, kids immediately wanted to 'kill' the monsters, it is a balancing act between the brand image and what the customer wants. We are hoping to have more of an open sandbox where the player decides what style of game they want - i will post the zone rating details, players choose the peaceful or wild (agressive) planetoids they want to play in and this reflects the combat and neighbours - basically you can play without combat or more aggresively like a traditional RTS.

My faith in this game has been restored. Sounds awesome, seriously.

That first screenshot looks familiar... How dare you steal my glorious designs?

Beta version has been released. Here's a download link. Also updating the first post now. Main changes from alpha version: -The heightmap is now stored as an array of ints, speeding everything up by about 10 times and fixing a minor misalignment issue. -Full camera controls. -Textured mode for surf maps. For now only the rock biome is included (low res versions of in-game textures). Next version will let you load your own textures. -A help screen with all controls listed. -Slightly improved preview mesh, but it still shows walls as flat.

[10:53:39 AM] Acmex: 8400gs is very slow. [11:02:29 AM] Acmex: WE GET 4.4 ON WEI NOW [11:04:18 AM] IceHusky: Why don't we use hedgehogs for processing [11:04:37 AM] IceHusky: blast processing [11:06:46 AM] Acmex: Because sonic is literally dumber than a computer.

I thought I would share some good news on the remake of Lego Rock Raiders, we were going to call it Block Raiders (due to Lego trademark on the RR name, however the good news is that the trademark has expired and also the extra time they have to renew it, and we have just registered the 'Rock Raiders' trademark ourselves. The name will live on.

Hello! You may know me from the LU wiki, I am brick5492, and I am making a fan made lego game. The game is in development for a while now, and the progress is going as planned Worlds and stuff are almost done, brick build system is in the making and I am planning to release a demo before the end of the year. The game is going to be multiplayer, in the way that the player can host or join a running game from someone else. Cause I am still working hard on the multiplayer, the demo is going to be single player. As you can see it isnt ready, but its coming along The site is http://www.legotravellers.wordpress.com Hope you like it!

We are evaluating possible game engines, there is a realistic voxel landscape with Unity or a 'blocky' look similar to Minecraft. I like the lookof the realistic landscape, but the classic blocky look is easy to visualize and fits well with a LEGO look product.

OK a bit more on the design ideas: It is still being fleshed out, but it answers some questions that have been raised. STORYLINE: The year is 3099 and the far reaches of the universe are being colonized with the search for valuable resources. Sending men to these remote and far away lands is dangerous, so instead we teleport a remote controlled android. For some strange reason these look like a Lego MiniFigure, but it’s not exactly the same, as there are still copyright laws even in the 31st century! Your Minifig wants to explore and discover resources, such as minerals, gems and power crystals. These are usually hidden beneath the surface, and unless you can discover caverns and tunnels, your minifig will need to dig deep underground to get these. When you find a good seam, you can choose to chip away at it with your pick axe, or you could teleport back some of your wealth and rent some serious, upgraded excavation equipment. Crushers, or laser drills can get the work done in short time, but for big equipment you need big power supplies and support buildings. Its up to you, choose to build a large mining complex or keep it simple. Then there are the ‘local’ inhabitants to deal with. The more disturbance you make, the more local wildlife you will disturb. Some of the locals are easy to catch, and we call these ‘food’ but many can bite back, and they will call YOU food. You will need to build defenses to protect you and your base. In some cases, if they dislike water, this might be a simple ditch, but in the case of a Rock Monster, I would recommend a river of flowing lava, and make it wide as these monsters can jump! The universe is a pretty big place, so big in-fact that there is a type of world to suit everyone. Planetoids are in zones, which are rated 1 (peaceful) to 5 (wild), so you can choose your neighbors and style of world for the style of game that you want to play. Some people may want to build a magnificent city, design buildings, and create landscaped gardens, and these can be on worlds where you can build, without interruption from other minifigs. Or you can goto a high risk and reward, ‘5 zone’, where you will have to spend as much on defense equipment as you do on mining. You will want to craft or buy, defense towers, weapons and armor. If you want combat and action in these zones you can also choose to be a mercenary, flying from planetoid to planetoid taking what you can steal from the inhabitants.

Finally got around to playing this. It was way more fun, and in some cases challenging, than the normal championship mode is. But those freaking fans. Those. Freaking. Fans.

Hi Brick, welcome to the site. First off, I want to say that it's great that you are learning programming and seem to have come quite a ways. This site is a great way to get constructive criticism from individuals who are doing similar things at an equal or higher level. It's clear you have a vision but I would urge you to focus on building a solid backbone for your game rather than focusing (albiet not exclusively) on the creative side immediately. That is conceptualizing a game that would be fun and work correctly before delving straight into creating it. No doubt there are many development styles out there but from what I can see immediately the game seems to be focused on much of its visual presentation and not on its gameplay mechanics. Even the visual presentation seems to be a bit lack luster. I don't know how experienced you are so I don't know what is fair game for me to criticize or not but I will say that the graphics are - at the onset - not that appealing. The shaders you are using (or not using) aren't really doing it for me as everything seems to be lit with very flat light. You seem to be trying to mimic the style of LEGO Universe but its really not there yet, and I don't think the very non-LEGO looking building models are helping. I personally would question the wisdom of creating anything based on LU but that's probably because I was not a fan of it and prefer the more classic look of the older games. I think the biggest thing that's missing is that from what you've showed us I'm really not sure what the purpose of the game is and how that purpose is communicated via the game's elements. In an ideal world, a game's internal logic is consistant, that all of the elements (graphics, gameplay, story, etc) work together to reinforce each other and the game's overall objective and purpose. I'm not getting that here. Granted, that might be because you're still in the development phase but you've said that you're pretty far along. If I were you, I would stop work and take stock of where you wanted to be originally, where you are currently, and where you are going. I think there are some big picture questions you need to address that are weakening your project. Even if you decide that you're exactly where you want to be, I think the introspection would still be a worthwhile excercise.

Helium-filled chassis and tires.

[8:56:36 PM] jamesster: Just so ya know, my dad was basically a pseudo-hippie [8:56:42 PM] jamesster: didn't get into drugs and all that [8:56:42 PM] jamesster: but [8:56:46 PM] jamesster: man, his old passport pic... [8:56:50 PM] jamesster: I lol'd SO hard when I saw it [8:57:06 PM] jamesster: He had long hair and played in bands in canada illegally and stuff

In response to the comic about the SMLC dealership this is the generic Rock Raiders dealership

will there be a flowers expansion pack?