Kizuna Doponypachi - My Little Pegasus

[chum]

I 2-ALLed this game yesterday but when i started the game again today, my score had vanished... what's up with that?

[BareKnuckleRoo]

I like the comments.

"Another Touhou clone?"

Not surprised at all, of course. Oh well, I guess if it gets more people into Ketsui & DoDonPachi that's good, but somehow I doubt that's going to happen here.

[null1024]

1) Make the game install to a folder. It spews files all over my desktop whenever I run it.

And then it removes them when the game ends. I could make the game install to a folder, but I feel like that wouldn't actually... affect anything. I guess if more people request that?

2) Allow me to configure the controls.

No.

Not because I disagree that it would be a good idea, but because Game Maker actually makes it unreasonable to do that.

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keyboard_set_map(key1, key2)

Have a piece of code check for a pressed key, and feed the keycode [from say, keyboard_key or keyboard_lastkey] to that.
Or, even better, have your keyboard_check() use variables that store the key constants from keyboard_key/lastkey. You'd have an options screen that would ask for a key, and set a global with what key was pressed, and use that global when checking for stuff.

Joystick stuff isn't as easy [you need to scan through all the buttons manually, probably with a loop that does a joystick_check() for every button in joystick_buttons()], and set a variable for what each button is set to.

Not unreasonable, just bloody annoying. Unless you did your key events with DnD actions, in which case it's a bit more effort.

Also, I'll play this game when I'm on my Windows machine, GM games run like ass in Wine [they work, just really slowly].

[shmuppyLove]

I like the comments.

"Another Touhou clone?"

Not surprised at all, of course. Oh well, I guess if it gets more people into Ketsui & DoDonPachi that's good, but somehow I doubt that's going to happen here.

Or it might just get more people into MLP.

[chum]

oh well I went ahead and beat it again, this time with a slightly higher score, and 3 lives in stock. no "true" last boss, though, can't score 75m in the first loop... even though i try to chain.



there are a few dumb patterns in there (especially the one with diagonal walls of bullets and other bullets hiding behind those, randomly getting in your way)

also 2-5 "false" (?) last boss, blue bullets on blue background...

[Giest118]

So, I just posted up a new version of My Little Pegasus. All it does is deparate the game into its exe and the music files. That is, the game has its own folder.

If you're one of the people who wanted the game to stop spewing files all over the place, your wish has come true. :V

Also if you want your high scores to carry over to the new version, just paste the mlpsav.dat that the game was using into the new folder.

[Blackbird]

Sweet!

[shmuppyLove]

Eheheh this is too much fun.

[BPzeBanshee]

I'll have a look at GMOSSE later when I'm at my desktop computer if indeed it does make it doable. Question though: I've never used GMOSSE. Your signature says it's a Game Maker shmup engine, but I don't really know what that entails. Is it just a series of scripts that make certain things easier?

I really do need to get a better explanation of it. Think of it as a .GMK game template. As it is it's a baseline standard shmup with all the functionality that one would need - screen rotation, joystick button configuration, etc. What you're looking for in this case would indeed be a simple script - scr_input() which is called from a persistent object that does nothing else but call it at the beginning of every step. The variables used in the script should be fairly straightforward to figure out, putting your actions within:

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if global.button1 = 1 
    {
    // do stuff
    }

and scr_input() determines that variable by the aforementioned keyboard_check() and the joystick functions. The INI file stores which buttons are used for the joystick check of course.

[Blackbird]

Love the comments. Looks like we've got all the usual suspects, lol.

Hardest boss ever video: Check.
Looks like a Touhou ripoff: check.
I suck at bullet hell: Check.

The only one we haven't gotten yet is a "Dodge the rain!" comment =).

I think my personal favorite was: "It's like playing Starcraft 2 against a Korean dude!"

[Jaimers]

That final boss rush is murder.

[Giest118]

That final boss rush is murder.

Jesus christ bro, your score is badass. You might actually hit a billion when you clear the game.

[BuckoA51]

Ponies don't buck around.

Doesn't Fluttershy (the yellow one) also reduce a dragon to tears in one episode? I mean, not like I watch it or anything..

[Illyrian]

Ponies don't buck around.

Doesn't Fluttershy (the yellow one) also reduce a dragon to tears in one episode? I mean, not like I watch it or anything..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEG-bWp-YY8
Skip to 18:34

[Blackbird]

Doesn't Fluttershy (the yellow one) also reduce a dragon to tears in one episode? I mean, not like I watch it or anything..

It's canon.

[Fu]

Controls for keyboard stuff isn't the easiest thing in the world but THERE ARE examples out there for such

Use this and you're done : http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=219.0

[BPzeBanshee]

Controls for keyboard stuff isn't the easiest thing in the world but THERE ARE examples out there for such

Use this and you're done : http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=219.0

If that's what I think it is it's no different from Xpadder but for keyboard keys, which is more of a bypass/quick fix than an actual solution by the programmer - the latter is good practice for shmup developers which was my main point. I've yet to bother to figure out a good way to do this from within Game Maker myself but null1024 pretty much nailed it on the hammer so I'll use his method.

[matrigs]

Ponies don't buck around.

Doesn't Fluttershy (the yellow one) also reduce a dragon to tears in one episode? I mean, not like I watch it or anything..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEG-bWp-YY8
Skip to 18:34

OT:

you can skip to a certain point in youtube movies using "&t="

for example :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEG-bWp-YY8&t=18m34s

just fyi

[Blackbird]

That is amazingly useful. I'll keep that in mind.

[BPzeBanshee]

You also get it from right-clicking and finding the 'Copy at current time' link option I believe. That's how I've been doing it recently.

[MrSoup678]

What can be summarized about TLB:
- is a giant floating eye? - check
- is a giant black mist from outside? - check
- uses mind control/possesion for its goals? -check
- fakes RD or Flutters's victory -checkerino

Wait, something about how this boss acts is familiar... HELLO ZERO & DARK MATTER FROM KIRBY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MLP SHMUP?!

Sorry for necro btw.