Something I made

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:39 am

It's called Shooting Tech Demo (until I can find some better name for it), and it's a basic time attack shmup where you need to get as many points as you can within 2 minutes.

You collect multipler items from enemies and also earn multipler items that multiply the main multipler. There's also a frame-by-frame scoring system that puts your current multipler into account, and there's a ranking system that determines your firepower and per-hit bonuses associated with it.

Download:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/8/9 ... v1.0.1.zip

I'm fully aware of the fact that:

- There's no music.
- There's no background.
- The title of the game sucks.

What things should I change for this game? Personally, I think it's pretty addicting.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:56 am

Enemies releasing bonus things before they're actually dead? That's a new one.

I'm pretty sure you didn't really intend this, because I had a 'S+++' rank within a few moments .. but you can point-blank the enemies and get every one of their bonus things without even really trying.

Later on it seems there's too many enemies and not enough firepower to kill them all. Boo.

Also add some joystick support kthx.

worstplayer · Post by **worstplayer** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:58 am

Enemies release bonus items on every hit, that's quite cool IMO.

At the moment player can't die so that should be first thing to fix

And yeah, joystick support is a must.

BTW Congratulations, you avoided one thing i hate on 99% of GM games. It's 60FPS, synchronized, and without rescaling. Everyone please do it like this.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:47 am

worstplayer wrote:At the moment player can't die so that should be first thing to fix

I think it was designed purely as a scoring game, so you only lose score for being hit. It's certianly a different idea .. I don't think it takes off nearly enough score to matter, though.

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:44 pm

Udderdude wrote:I'm pretty sure you didn't really intend this, because I had a 'S+++' rank within a few moments .. but you can point-blank the enemies and get every one of their bonus things without even really trying.

That was what I had intended. The thing that makes it difficult is near the end where you try and point-blank things without hitting the wave behind it.

Udderdude wrote:Later on it seems there's too many enemies and not enough firepower to kill them all. Boo.

More firepower on later ranks, I suppose?
[HINT] Get 22.5 million points before 60 seconds pass.

Udderdude wrote:Also add some joystick support kthx.

Will do.

worstplayer wrote:BTW Congratulations, you avoided one thing i hate on 99% of GM games. It's 60FPS, synchronized, and without rescaling. Everyone please do it like this.

Thanks! I'm a sucker when it comes to 60fps, and I do it all the time especially with Game Maker. I'm guessing rescaling means something around a forced resolution change.

worstplayer wrote:At the moment player can't die so that should be first thing to fix

Your answer:

Udderdude wrote:I think it was designed purely as a scoring game, so you only lose score for being hit. It's certianly a different idea .. I don't think it takes off nearly enough score to matter, though.

Also, not only do you lose score for getting hit, you also slow down your frame-by-frame point gains. This makes it so it's really crucial not to get hit so you can reap as many points as you can from the frame-by-frame system.

Alright, so my to-do list of major features for the next possible version:

- Joystick support.
- More firepower on later ranks.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:42 pm

Also I'm not sure if the enemy positions are random or not, but it'd be a good idea to have non-random enemy positioning. Scoring games require it pretty much.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:21 pm

It was pretty fun.
All the problems with it were stated already, also I hate the fact that the game waits till VSync. It makes motion jerky.

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:26 am

Udderdude wrote:Also I'm not sure if the enemy positions are random or not, but it'd be a good idea to have non-random enemy positioning. Scoring games require it pretty much.

They're random, sadly. It's gonna take some time if I'm gonna program predefined enemy placements.

null1024 wrote:It was pretty fun.
All the problems with it were stated already, also I hate the fact that the game waits till VSync. It makes motion jerky.

Didn't you use GM6 to make bilateral?

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:47 pm

Didn't you use GM6 to make bilateral?

Yup. Put the Vista patch on the binary too. I hate GM7 for some reason.

PS: Why do the positions feel less totally random, and more like semi-random [i.e, random based on things like proximity to another created enemy, etc]?

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:13 am

You can download every version of this game I ever made.

Things start REALLY tweaking after the last revision I made (ver 1.0.1). Joystick support doesn't come until the last revision I made on there, and even then, the menus are button-based.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:19 am

worstplayer wrote:Enemies release bonus items on every hit, that's quite cool IMO.

At the moment player can't die so that should be first thing to fix
And yeah, joystick support is a must.

BTW Congratulations, you avoided one thing i hate on 99% of GM games. It's 60FPS, synchronized, and without rescaling. Everyone please do it like this.

All my GM games are like that. Well, ok, Space Disorder is at 30 fps, but when I made it, my computer couldn't handle 60 FPS. The other game is 60 FPS, and everything else I've been doing is 60 FPS. And I never rescale anything, I force the screen to match the game resolution.