Feathered Orbs

[mice]

This should be the work log thread about it. Otherwise I'll just end up not finishing this as well...

Edit 2013-05-20:

New vid: http://youtu.be/a3mUHD5RO8U

Edit 2013-05-09:

It's a start.



Edit 2013-05-04:

Yeah, I know...but anyways...



Edit 2013-05-02:

Arriving in an egg to heaven.




Edit 2013-04-28:

Movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYCZ1dQAmnI

Edit 2013-04-25:

A bit less color clashing, yay!




Edit 2013-04-23:

Spot the alikeness!

->

Yeah, the ships moves away from the bullet spewing...but anyway...


Edit 2013-04-19:

My bullet script editor, wip. Nice to have as h**l.

[ciox]

Cool beans.

[BPzeBanshee]

[relminator]

Awesome!

[mice]

Color clash ala Spectrum 48k!

[ciox]

Color clash ala Spectrum 48k!

Nice looking stuff. Also I know exactly what spectrum color clash looks like and I can't see it nowheres, definitely needs bigger blocks if it's there.

[mice]

...I can't see it nowheres, definitely needs bigger blocks if it's there.

You're ofcourse right, I guess this is more of a "you can't see shit because everything is the same color" clash.

[mice]

Movie! With music from the train stage of BO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYCZ1dQAmnI

Gets into some kind of über-bonus-mode at the end when fully powered up and the boss refuses to let go of a bullet pattern after death.
Having lots of fun with this, will def be finishing it!

[railslave]

Very nice, love the boss patterns.

Looks like the best sega master system game ever!

[mice]

Looks like the best sega master system game ever!

I'd take that as a compliment, being a 8-bitter and all.

[railslave]

Looks like the best sega master system game ever!

I'd take that as a compliment, being a 8-bitter and all.

Yeah its a complete compliment..what i like about your game is it look exactly like what ive been trying to do lol...but it works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpNDvpa523g


The more colors the better, whack them on there, amiga turrican 2 sunsets!!!

[Rozyrg]

Whoa, looking really nice! (The train stages were my favorites in BO)

I know it's pretty early on for this one; but are you planning to put it up on XBLIG as well?

... or is everyone pretty much just jumping ship at this point? With all the nasty rumors surrounding the new Xbox, I could totally imagine someone at MS HQ just yanking out the plugs for all the XBLIG servers and laughing maniacally right after the launch. >_>

[mice]

The more colors the better, whack them on there, amiga turrican 2 sunsets!!!

Noooo, freaking copper-effects. Hate them!
Your game is off to a good start as well!

Whoa, looking really nice! (The train stages were my favorites in BO)

I know it's pretty early on for this one; but are you planning to put it up on XBLIG as well?

... or is everyone pretty much just jumping ship at this point? With all the nasty rumors surrounding the new Xbox, I could totally imagine someone at MS HQ just yanking out the plugs for all the XBLIG servers and laughing maniacally right after the launch. >_>

You're too nice, as always!

XBLIG, for sure. I just paid MS for another year so I hope to get treated well. Hope MS will come around and make something lovely out of this mess.

And I have it running on one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0yyPEfDH3o
Which is a nice little Android machine, really.

[n0rtygames]

XBLIG, for sure. I just paid MS for another year so I hope to get treated well.

Let me know when you go in to peer review..

[mice]

XBLIG, for sure. I just paid MS for another year so I hope to get treated well.

Let me know when you go in to peer review..

Ofcourse.
Will put it up for playtest quite early as well.

[mice]

Performance issues.
BO had freakin billions of bullets, new engine can't handle squat. Works fine on PC/libgdx but the xbox isn't handling it.
Probably time to look over the collision detection algos and make shortcuts.
Depressed.

[railslave]

Performance issues.
BO had freakin billions of bullets, new engine can't handle squat. Works fine on PC/libgdx but the xbox isn't handling it.
Probably time to look over the collision detection algos and make shortcuts.
Depressed.

Youl work it out, go walk the dogs or whatever and it will all become clear there is always a way ...
I like how some Cave sprites are a bunch of animated bullets all clumped together into one, that never fails to freak me out (thinks of progear)

they get old pretty quick though :\

[mice]

Youl work it out, go walk the dogs or whatever and it will all become clear there is always a way ...

I removed a hundred bullets, didn't make a difference to the difficulty anyway, so now that's fixed for the time being...

I like how some Cave sprites are a bunch of animated bullets all clumped together into one, that never fails to freak me out (thinks of progear)

Didn't know that...that's like...cheating?

[mice]

New vid:
http://youtu.be/a3mUHD5RO8U

Weapon select at start of stage and smart bomb.
Over-saturated so I don't get depressed while working with it...

Some readability issues, will probably lead to pink bullets in the end. *Sigh*
How come RF jet gets away with this kind if thing?

Need music. "My" music-guy just got a kid so I can't expect him to deliver anything.

Clusterfu*k?

[n0rtygames]

This looks poo and I'd never play it...

ON OPPOSITE DAY!



Looking fantastic man

[Rozyrg]

Didn't know that...that's like...cheating?

Nah, it's pretty common. We actually did similar stuff for Neo's explosions - making a big cluster of them as a single animation rather than have a bunch of separate ones that would cause the game to hit the maximum sprite cap right off. I notice stuff like that whenever I play the classics, too, tons of clever little shortcuts to get around hardware limitations.

[mice]

Looking fantastic man

Thanks, hope to get it more varied than it currently is. But I guess the question remains, is it cluserf**k?

We actually did similar stuff for Neo's explosions

You cheating b******s!
I kind of get it for explosions but bullets...that's just going to look and behave weird.
Collision detection will become really off no matter how you do it. Going to have to try it out though and have a close look at progia.

Thanks!

[railslave]

We actually did similar stuff for Neo's explosions

You cheating b******s!


Thanks!

I was try to do this and came up with this





that was absolute hell to animate, tumbling over each other.


Get creative!! maybe having bigger bullets, or even like a huge gun blaze may give the illusion of more going on ...

Nana had a good suggestion once, sounds for all the the enemies shots ..could get intense

[mice]

I was try to do this and came up with this

Yeah, I could have a cluster like that and rotate it. Will try that, and even more of them maybe and as you say larger ones.

[railslave]

I was try to do this and came up with this

Yeah, I could have a cluster like that and rotate it. Will try that, and even more of them maybe and as you say larger ones.

Rotating is not enough, you need to animate them , to get the effect, you can use my frames, just change the colors..i want be using them again.

I think thats the key, its all in the animation, make it busier

Like i said, it gets old pretty quickly though (to me) , so maybe its not your ultimate answer.



see them ?
"over there, past dem trees"

[nasty_wolverine]

it can easily be done in blender...
stick four spheres together into a tetrahedron shape, rotate around 2 axis, take snapshots of frames, done.

[mice]

see them ?
"over there, past dem trees"

Best line ever.

it can easily be done in blender...
stick four spheres together into a tetrahedron shape, rotate around 2 axis, take snapshots of frames, done.

Yeah, pixel-art community would like that. People have been hanged for less.

[nasty_wolverine]

it can easily be done in blender...
stick four spheres together into a tetrahedron shape, rotate around 2 axis, take snapshots of frames, done.

Yeah, pixel-art community would like that. People have been hanged for less. [/quote]
Post DOJ and ketsui use pre rendered art, of course done over by hand...most newer 2d games do.the same... Live with with it...

[mice]

Post DOJ and ketsui use pre rendered art, of course done over by hand...most newer 2d games do.the same... Live with with it...

So when I post a pic to pixeljoint, I should lie?

[nasty_wolverine]

Do a grey scale render of the tumbling, that will help you get accurate shapes and shading, color over by hand...
that its still pixel art, using a render as a guide, so you don't need to lie....