STEAL - top down stealth game

[Fenrir]

Hi guys,

Nearly one year after discovering LOVE, let me finally introduce you the game I'm working on:


STEAL is a 2D stealth game where your only weapons are planification, discretion and mobility, you play a thief which is not here to kill but to steal its target without being detected, and you’ll use your skills and equipments to achieve it by luring guards, hacking the environment and sticking to the shadows.

Website : http://steal-project.com/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/stealproj

Don't hesitate if you have any questions or remarks, we're actively working on the game and we're looking for feebacks and comments! I can't post any .love right now but I hope to do it soon.

And finally a big thanks to: Matthias Richter for HUMP, Kenny Shields for Löve Frames, kikito for Tween, Taehl for Tserial and of course everybody behind LOVE.

[kikito]

Wow, it looks super nice!

[Fenrir]

Wow, it looks super nice!

Thanks a lot! And for a bit deeper look on the work done on the project, don't hesitate to have a look on our blog:
http://steal-project.com/blog/

We'll try to update it on a regular basis, and I'll probably cover more deeply some technical aspects about LOVE.

[undef]

This looks really nice, even though there is no sound in the video yet.
One thing I mentioned:
It seems like the character isn't exactly in the middle of the "noise-circle" he creates .

Other than that, I really like stealth games, especially if you don't have to kill anyone (even better if you musn't kill anyone), it's just a lot more challenging and creates far greater suspense.

[Fenrir]

Yep it's totally non-lethal, we're not planning any weapons, just equipments like lures or smoke grenades for instance.

It seems like the character isn't exactly in the middle of the "noise-circle" he creates .

Well actually the noise circle is created at the position the noise was made, so as the player is still moving it appears to be behind him, it's totally normal.

And about the sounds and musics, it's the next big step to handle before actually having a first "complete" demo, I'll start working on it very soon.

[Germanunkol]

Great work!

How are you creating the shadows? The look really nice, especially with the blurred edges!

[Fenrir]

Thanks!

For the shadows, it's all GPU based and the original article I followed is this one:
https://github.com/mattdesl/lwjgl-basic ... ct-Shadows

But I modified it a lot (mostly optimizations), and it's a bit different when handling the lights or the player line of sight, but the basis are the same (creating an occlusion map, projecting everything in a 1D texture and so on...).

When I'll find some time it's probably a topic I'll cover on the devblog.

[undef]

It seems like the character isn't exactly in the middle of the "noise-circle" he creates .

Well actually the noise circle is created at the position the noise was made, so as the player is still moving it appears to be behind him, it's totally normal.

Oh yeah, of course... Stupid me^^

[vynom]

Very cool! I'm a big fan of top-down perspective games such as this. I also thought it was quite awesome you have been using your own level editor for player generated levels.

[IndieRetro]

The lighting looks fantastic. Is there any chance you could write a blog post about how you did it? I saw your link to the tutorial, I've tried following it myself but had to much trouble porting it to lua/love :p