Some awesome shooter

black-salamander · Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 49

oooh, another project? That will be interesting... :ninja:

Liazon · Posted: 22 Jul 2008 03:36:08 pm Post subject:

nice!

cjgone · **Aw3s0m3** Active Member Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 693

Gotta build some hype for the level thingy.

Level 0 is slightly highlighted to show it's selected.

'?' = level not completed.

Liazon · Posted: 23 Jul 2008 05:45:38 pm Post subject:

o.o you did all that and haven't done the name thing for high scores? 0x5 jk jk

cjgone · **Aw3s0m3** Active Member Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 693

Thank god for some hardcore music + Pepsi + CSI:Miami,

yes, name input allowed, cool level selection screen. Yes, levels are now actually supported. In the bottom right corner, it tells you what level you are.

"?" = not beaten

KUDOS to Sigma's text input routine (used in both greyscale tetris and this) from 28 days.

ALL used routines and help will be properly cited in the documentation when this game is released sometime next week.

No updates tomorrow, going 2 be busy playing Gears of war.

vanchagreen · Member Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 136

It looks good, but what's with the HI that pops up when you beat the level. Is it meant to indicate that you got the hi-score?

cjgone · **Aw3s0m3** Active Member Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 693

Nah, 0x5, I just randomly put that in. It could say anything i wanted, won't be in game anyway.

bfr · Member Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 108

That looks really good, and the level selection is pretty nice. Cool

Blaster Ball is already looking pretty sweet too.

vanchagreen · Member Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 136

Oh ok. :biggrin:

cjgone · **Aw3s0m3** Active Member Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 693

Take a break from gears, added happy face trophies for levels you beat <3

Teacher key to quickly end game so you can continue it later

cjgone · **Aw3s0m3** Active Member Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 693

random firing, they shoot a bit to much i think. 0x5

release date = this week

Harrierfalcon · Posted: 28 Jul 2008 05:18:45 pm Post subject:

I must say, I think the introduction of this to the calc community makes Phoenix ones of those old-school classic games which people still play but only because of nostalgia. 'Nuff said.

I like the title screen Very Happy

. But yeah, I think the enemies fire a tad too much.

[quote name='cjgone's sig']*Trying* to Learn z80 assembly...[/quote]I think you need to fix that Razz

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Liazon · Posted: 28 Jul 2008 08:31:22 pm Post subject:

at least it's random now. nice!

Delnar_Ersike · Posted: 29 Jul 2008 01:58:51 am Post subject:

Here's another thing you might want to consider if you have random firing: if you decrease the frequency at which the checks happen for does the ship fire or not (or decrease the odds that it will fire), you can decrease the number of shots on the screen. Effectively, you can implement a slider-based difficulty system, in which each slider tick mark represents an increment, with the hardest setting filling the screen with bullets, and the easiest having only about one or two enemy bullets flying around the screen. You can also increase/decrease the enemy ships' speed based on the slider, but that really is optional... Rolling Eyes

Anyway, great work (since I have never checked it out before). My only complaint would be that the background scrolling of the planets might obscure my vision of the enemy ships (and even my own). Once again, great work and I look forward to seeing this on my calc (that is gathering dust right now).

cjgone · **Aw3s0m3** Active Member Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 693

Sounds good delnar, i'll see what I can do because atm it shoots that much at a 1\64 chance times. 1\4 chance. (i use ion random so only whens it's 0 of 63 and it only can create a bullet every 4 loops)....

I'm not sure why the bullets are so frequent noting the chance of the bullet is really low... =( Probably a broken routine, but i'll fix it sometime Very Happy

Liazon · Posted: 29 Jul 2008 03:56:01 pm Post subject:

you could always use 2 bytes and generate them independently w/ 2 calls to irandom

cjgone · **Aw3s0m3** Active Member Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 693

I did decrease bullets to 1\8 * 1\64

Anyway, I added Digitan's suggestion of slight side scrolling of the background via left and right (4 pixels).

Oh and look black and white looool

Liazon · Posted: 29 Jul 2008 06:07:43 pm Post subject:

nice, does this mean you're going give the option to turn gs on/off?

even in black and white, the sprites look so much better than phoenix.

bananaman · Posted: 29 Jul 2008 10:43:55 pm Post subject:

I notice that when a new wave of attackers enters the screen all the bullets currently on the screen disappear. I like it better when it is possible to have a lot of bullets already slung up against your enemies by the time you enter. Are you going to keep it this way or make it possible to have shots in advance?

cjgone · **Aw3s0m3** Active Member Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 693

I thought people wouldn't want shots in advance, so i'll change that if you want it Very Happy

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