Strange Game Idea

[Super Speler]

I was at my freind's house the other day and he pulled out a game I'd never seen or heard of before from Japan. Apparently the game is not available in the USA and he
got it as an import. The idea of the game is to swing around by pushing off wall's and floating objects with lightening shot out of your staff, this same lightneing is used to shoot enemies. It was by far the funnest game I've played in years. It gave me an idea...

What about a physic's based game where you jump off object's continuously while in combat? While there are places to land, for the most part they are just places to breifly rest before jumping into the action once again. The enemies, unlike you, just float around unaffected by the law's of physics. While in my game you do not use lightening to float around, you still shoot something (not sure what yet) out of your hand at the enemies. You appear to be a dot, yay.

No enemy's yet. Engine V.1.04

Test level:

0->B
30->D
30->A
0->E
0->H
Horizontal Ymin
Horizontal Ymax
Vertical Xmin
Vertical Xmax
Vertical 10
Vertical 40
Line(10,-58,30,-58
Line(37,-20,37,-59
Pt-On(32,-58
Pt-On(32,-57

EDIT1: SCK is having trouble with code, let me check it for typo's before copying it. It is still appear's to be buggy but 99% of these "bugs" are there on purposes that are not right now apparent.

EDIT2: If Inot(G is part of old version of engine which I forgot to delete. As well take the ClrDraw from the begining. (if you copied from V1.01).

EDIT3: If you have V1.01 or V1.00 this affects you. Added If K before the 2->H very early in the code, it makes game play more convienent. In case you are wondering the thing that alow's you to swing around poles is not a bug, the reason you cannot move when this happens is I intend for level's to be less full of long lines and this makes it look cooler and this is the most effeciant way to this considering that.

EDIT4: There was a bug in the first line posted. Replace B with D. Sorry about that.

EDIT5: Major changes, anyone who copied before 1.03 should change, that means you.

EDIT6: Those who copied before 1.04 need to make changes.

EDIT7: Several optimizations, now on version 1.06, I now added in quotes "v.1.06" to the begining of the program to avoid confusion.

Window settings:
0->Xmin
-62->Ymin
1->[delta]X
1->[delta]Y



Pxl-Change(int(D),int(A
While 1
Pxl-Test(int(D)+1,int(A->G
Pxl-Test(int(D)-1,int(A->I
Pxl-Test(int(D),1+int(A->J
Pxl-Test(int(D),int(A)-1->L
Pxl-Test(int(D),int(A->M
getkey->K
If J+L and not(G
Then
If ans
2->H
(B>-1 and B<0)-(B>0 and B<1->B
End
.95Hnot(K=34 or G->H
If Gnot(I)(K=25
2->H
int(A->C
int(D->F
max(-1,min(1,B+(.5+not(m))((K=26 and not(J))-(K=24 and not(L->B
Ans+A->A
D-G+1-H+Inot(G->D
.95B-BG/4->B
Pxl-Change(iPart(D),iPart(A
Pxl-Change(F,C
End

[Super Speler]

I updated the code above with bug fixes and some minor optimizations. Optimizations and feedback would be greatly appreciated. As stated above there is no combat in there yet. If you set it up right the dot can do some real cool things.

I've started the actual game and I'm attempting to make randomly generated level's (not all of them), a story line that changes based on decisions etc.

[SilverCalcKnight]

This looks and sounds fun, but ERR: DOMAIN isn't too fun of a game. ; )

[Super Speler]

ERR: DOMAIN probably came from you not setting up the demo level I listed, if thats not it tell me, it would be a typo from one of us (probably you, I checked the code twice).

[axcho]

I am very interested to see how this develops. I'll try it out next week once school gets out.

[Super Speler]

Ok, I've been experimenting alot with level storage and display. But here's what I need:

1) A way to efficiantly display and erase enemies stored to a list (maybe at most five at a time). Then shot angles and speed for attacking these enemies.
2) Something that gives a small ammount of level interaction and change while playing but wouldn't slow the engine down much.

Thought's would be greatly appreciated as would your optimizations to the posted code. When it is fully finished I will replace all main variables with finance variables which is faster and may allow for further optimizations.

I like the swinging around poles (did anyone here notice this feature?) and want to keep it even if it makes large walls and barriers illogical to this game.

As you may have noticed I will be continually updating the code in the first post, take note when you copy it of which version you have so you know whether what I posted effects you.

[SilverCalcKnight]

I still don't get it. Code copied again, symbol for symbol.

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

SCK=Me

[Super Speler]

Didn't right a value for A in the setup... 30 should do. Sorry Silver. There is also a bug in the first lind, see the new code for the change. Sorry once again.

[SilverCalcKnight]

Sure, sure. That's what I'm for, right? : )

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

[Super Speler]

So far this game is going great, I will be changing the code on the first post soon (I promise), but give me a couple days to take my finals and regent's exams. The game runs much smoother now, only slightly slower (un-noticably).

SilverCalcKnight has pitched me bugs, ideas and has been overall helpfull and I'll thank him now. He came up with a great idea for using stat-plot's to get moving stepping stones or walls. This will be perfect (I don't intend to use more then three or four plots).

For more interactivity with the level's I plan to have switches (ideas on how to accomplish this would be appreciated), moving wall's (a single line that shifts left and right) and finally a way to make walls stop you from moving.

Thoughts and suggestions appreciated.

[Super Speler]

Sorry for the double post but I made many changes to the engine.

Did not test this with test levels, I may have made a bug copying it over, I'll check now. I would really appreciate some feedback on this project, it is taking up much of my time right now (with level design and such). Thanks once again SilverCalcKnight for the help.

[SilverCalcKnight]

The pole-swing has been replaced by a wall-jump.
And now the game feels more energetic... kinda fun, actually. Great job, Super Speler. If only we could get more people to play this... Level design is gonna be freaking sweet!!

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

P.S. You're welcome. Great sig.

[Super Speler]

Poll swing is still there, just a little different (and not done, see if you can find it).

[SilverCalcKnight]

Spoiler:Just found it, you have to jump into the pole. Otherwise you do a wall jump. Really cool. I think it's coming along great, it seems fun to play with (but not yet fun to eat). Like I said, level design will be awesome.

@Super Speler: Have you got the 'training level'? If not, I'll make one, then post it here, or maybe PM it to you.

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

[axcho]

Okay, I just finished typing it into my calculator. There are some things in the code I was wondering about:

[SilverCalcKnight]

Up jumps. And you continue bouncing once you hit the ground.

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

[Super Speler]

[SilverCalcKnight]

Heyyy, Super Speler! It's been a while. How'd you do on your exams?

To be more on topic, so it's been updated? Meaning I need to change the code? Sure, anything new?

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

[axcho]

Thanks for the info. I'm still not sure how the physics are supposed to be, but I can probably figure that out by looking at the code again, now that I know what all the variables do.

[Super Speler]