Some progress

[railslave]

Getting there, its taken a while but im making some steps forward in level design and bullet patterns.
This video is in God mode, just to show the level layout . Im not pretending to good or anything.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxsTvdyj-qA

peace!



*****old stuff, try this instead https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84483952/rail_slave.exe

[BPzeBanshee]

Had a bit of trouble figuring out which part of the background was collidable. Is it possible to move the grass effect behind those rocks?

[railslave]

Thanks for noticing i didnt see that , i wanted a slow paced r-type style thing but with the trees in the foreground giving a sense of speed to counteract the slow bullets ect...
Just a bunch more experiments for me realy , honing my particular brand of pixel art as i progress as well. Gimme 2 years and something will happen !!

[railslave]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxsTvdyj-qA

The finished player ship and some backdrops. Havnt done bullet or player hit boxes yet , just a rough mock up of the style realy .
Music done on the yamaha fm chip very similar to the megadrive
Game will be called "rail_slave"

[railslave]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84483952/rail_slave.exe

Pretty happy with this(stylistically ), please forgive my playing, and the frame rate ...i think ill call this "laser garden"
freshly inspired by chronoblast!

and tommorow my first stab at a boss...its going to be insane


Oh if anyone wants to give it a play and help me through , gimme some input , all welcome, im new to this "discipline"

[railslave]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84483952/nugame.exe


lemme know what needs changing... or even what score you get

last night i accidently stumbled upon an age old bullet clump effect so im a bit excited

the trick is to die and go hunting to take out loads of bullets for a bigger score (instead of bombs and ups the risk factor )... might call it something to do with suicide "sue is fine" or something lol

[Ebbo]

The game looks pretty pleasant visually but please remove the movement inertia. It only makes control a chore and quite frankly I didn't want to play the game much further because of it... Also, an autofire option would be nice.

[eebrozgi]

I agree with Ebbo, though it feels like the game has some input delay too. What tool did you use to make this?

[railslave]

I agree with Ebbo, though it feels like the game has some input delay too. What tool did you use to make this?

Contruct classic (dx9)

ill have a mess about with the settings, im new to this so ive got alot of catching up to do.

Any stock parameters for movement ? such as acceleration that would be better ?

This is what i have (not that any of it is fine tuned, i havnt researched that enough )

max speed 200
acceleration 1000
deceleration 1000

[railslave]

The game looks pretty pleasant visually but please remove the movement inertia. It only makes control a chore and quite frankly I didn't want to play the game much further because of it... Also, an autofire option would be nice.

Thanks about the visuals, that means ALOT to me still, its early days and in the week this will be atrocious to what ill be doing ...

[railslave]

deleted this message, just sounded insane

[railslave]

Rough little "Nuntastic" intro , with killer music...!!! "hebrew core" and a new enemy type..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayNB0rog ... e=youtu.be

[railslave]

The music should work on this, the intro is like a loading screen so cant be skipped ...


I had a go at doing a dodonpachi style ( i use that term very loosely) unusually angled scrolling backdrop .Once you get over the jungle mountain hopefully you can see a dam and a jungle.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84483952/heavenlyhighscore.exe


let me know what you think (still working on the controls)

oh its z to insert coin , and z to shoot...nothing fancy at the moment

my hiscore is 89400

[railslave]

Got the scoring all sorted out ..
build up "faith meter" then at the end of your session (if you make it) your score will be multiplied by your faith level.

more of an obscure, abstract caravan style game

you get 20,000 for the gold statues



https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84483952/heavenlyhighscore.exe