- Tanks stay on the screen too long, the movement script basically had them follow the player and repeat it indefinitely.
- Bombers dip down too low... so even if you skillfully dodge a barrage of bullets (which you will have to on the higher settings), you could still crash into them fairly easy.
Fun With Old Code (TM) basically.
I rewrote some of the movement stuff, dropped some of the enemy-per-wave counts down and increased delays on some so that you don't have quite as much crap on screen at once and have (hopefully) not interfered with the flow of the game much. I got another nice sliver of speed back by chopping out outlines (which were Draw Events) from enemy bullets, too. Who would've thought *drawing* the bullet sprites correctly to begin with would be the cheaper solution memory wise, huh? >_>I'm definitely thinking about have a few different versions as far as loading/memory solutions go. The faster PC I use does that kind of loading jitter occasionally too; but somehow doesn't skip a beat when everything is preloaded and just sitting in memory.
About the pics, you only get the 'naughty' (PG13) ones on the higher difficulties (Hellish or Nightmare)... and right after you beat the game. Not something you could get to casually or accidentally I think, unless you've already earned them and you're flipping through the gallery. Swapping them out with 'dummies' for such an occasion wouldn't be too hard though. About draw_set_color(c_black) difficult.
), so I'm putting together a new demo. This one will be the 'official' one which pitches the full game; but barring any major changes/bug fixes it will probably stay the same until XYX is finished for sure.
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Rygar is my all time favorite non-shmup game. Most important stuff is capturing the character's control (can be controlled when he's mid-jump) and the overall physics is IMHO superb. Let me know if you need any pointers/playtesting.
