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I like the background a lot, it reminds me of the floors in lasertag buildings. Very nostalgic.
I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing, my bullets don't seem to hurt the enemy. I also spent ages following the green arrow, only to find out it was taking me in circles. I then realised it was my own direction and I felt pretty stupid lol
The thing that made me stop playing was it was too hard to turn around, I'd definitely increase the turning speed of the ship.
Good luck!
*Warning Game Incomplete Expect Bugs*
A gateway appears in space near Earth orbit. Suddenly it powers up but the top explodes before it could finish. A shockwave hits earth and stops all internet communications, the internet goes offline. They called it, the disconnect... *Show game title and load menu*
Start Menu
Single player
Co-op
View high scores
Opening scene after starting game
(This didn't make it in time)
Description appears saying: After the disconnect event all computers on earth began to load a program. Then move into the program screen. Loading... *Pause* Hello World... The Internet is offline... The solution, resolve the Offline... *In a quirky alien text that forms into our ASCII characters as it types*
Then you get taken into the space game.
The "Offline" are the enemy red ships, they are to be destroyed.
Menu Controls
Player 1 or 2 controls for menus and mouse.
Esc to exit from high score sheet.
Player 1 Controls
W,S,A,D movement.
Space - Fire.
Player 2 Controls
Arrow keys
Right Ctrl - Fire.
Genre
It's a top down asteroids style shooter. With various missions and a more detailed high score chart.
Missions
(This didn't make it in time)
Save Planets from the offline and reconnect them.
Defend Stations and upgrade your ship at them prior to battle and after. Increase rows and columns of a grid type setup. Add various guns at the front, edge guns are default cannons. You can escape after 1 minute of waves but doing so twice won't let you use the station to buy until you protect them.
Blow up Enemy Ships and Collect their Cache in open space. (Yes I'm playing with Cash words with internet terms ;))
Fragmented space area, has lots of fragmented floating about and few enemy ships, you can choose to loot and quickly escape through an exit space gate before encountering if your ship is too damaged.
Ships get bigger as the levels progress.
Enemy Ships "The Offline" are in Red and Shoot at you.
"The Fragmented" Ships are Brown and drift in space, avoid them as they caused damage on collisions or shoot them to blow them up.
Mission flow
After arriving through a gate in the first space mission area, the system has four gates to choose from. After clearing the enemies the four gates will activate. Letting the player decide which system to visit next out of the four types mentioned above. The different mission areas have different goals to complete or avoid depending on player ship health against current level of ships faced.
As the game progresses the enemy ships get bigger and tougher, the player can also upgrade their ship at stations mentioned above to counter.
What hasn't been added yet
Opening sequence mentioned above.
Missions mentioned above.
Pause game.
Sounds/Music.
Varying atmospheric noises.
Particle Effects, e.g. firing, damage, movement.
Planet level, mission clear the area. Worth 3 level upgrade.
Station level with buying system to upgrade the ship length and width. Worth 2 level upgrade.
Space Level, clear enemy ships. Worth 1 level upgrade.
Fragmented level, clear the area of fragmented and an unwelcome enemy ships. Worth 0 levels.
Weapons
Missiles
Beam
Pulse Beam
Mines
Defences
Shields in the middle every complete 9 square of the ship hull.
Flak turrets anti-missile
Win/Lose per system scenario.
3 lives to respawn, respawn sets player back to level 1, game stays at level but the lesser risk missions allow to accumulate cache again to upgrade at next station.
Save to high scores at game over, init and loading works though.
Power mechanics for hull length to guns/engines at the back. Width for turn speed.
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Worked out the respawn with at least some guns now 🙂👍
Bit side tracked in the last week, this week I'm going to get the station's shop and level sorted out.
Other bits:
Player respawn and exit level.
Player select to exit level.
Planet level, maybe???
Fragmented level.
Loading...So the ships get bigger as you progress (the player will be able to upgrade theirs too), here's a sneak peek at the larger ships in testing. I was also having a go at the side edge guns aiming rather than firing straight forward too.
I think I've figured out a system to save and load all player ship parts, a little rework on firing logic to do and can then tackle the station shop functionality.
Mission criteria and scoring set, just have to transition and transfer levels now.
High Scores recording properly to secure bin file now. Now for game flow levels and station shop to do.
Now that I've looked at the menu, I've got it how I wanted it to look and added to the media on the game page.
Loading...Some footage of the last update I did before the free license expired for 0.2.0, still not a game flow yet but will post up that version once the first round of voting selection is done.
Looking at some fixes I've done and working out how much there's left to do to fulfil the game as a whole would take me about 2-3 weeks. I'll do it if there's incentives as I'll need to get the html license so let's put it to a vote.
So I re-visited the bug with fragmented collisions (the brown objects) and found that move_bounce_all() regardless of true/false crashed the html game
