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M7A- Mach 7 Arena
4 years ago

Well... I'm surprised...


Years ago, while making Dragonian, I made this little game. Mostly, it was an experiment with making a game with polygons. I made my own model-making software, and it worked. I figured out how to rotate models from specific points. Also, this was made as an experiment in case I wanted to do a game featuring the M7 tanks.

Anyway, I replayed this thing, and I'm surprised.

If you can get past the controls, it's aged pretty well as an arcade game. If I were to do this game today, I'd make it a lot better in presentation, and make it impossible to take damage when respawning, but that's about it. I hadn't played Splatoon 2 before making this, but some ideas seem to resemble each other.

...anyway, just bringing this up because I was bored enough to play it.

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Oh, no, not again.

At least it's just the player character, but still...

EDIT: It's just her collision box being different for the Hurt frames. Easy to fix. Her sprites all have different collision boxes to keep her ability to duck.

Importing again.

It may say there are 20 warnings, but 18 are about "__cam" and two are about "array_length_1d", related to ye olde depth system.

...well, I don't know if I should be worried about either at the moment.

Oh, no. They're stuck. I'M stuck. The only thing that could be doing this within reason should be collision physics.

Pretty sure the GM Studio 1 build doesn't do this, but the current Game Maker build does.

Since certain elements of GM Studio 1, including ye olde "score" and "lives" variables, were deprecated in later versions, I reworked the score system while making them global.Score and global.Lives instead.

Now getting a million points can be done.

The HTML5 version was actually running buttery-smooth.

...and then it locked up on THIS screen for no apparent reason. 4th level. Even the music continued to play when I switched windows on this screen.

There may be limits to HTML5 I don't understand yet.

Playing around with the title is only the start of a title sequence.

Can you tell what needs to be fixed on this screen?

...and if you noticed, is it worth fixing?

Yes, according to Game Maker, there IS a difference between randomise() and randomize(). randomize() gets you zero, guaranteed, with HTML5.

I would blame it on them, but I can adjust.

Okay, I'm testing out the HTML5 version again.

The crash is consistent with the one level, and one enemy spawning around that location: this guy.

Time to figure out why...

EDIT: I suspected the Magnet Crusher, but it's likely this guy.

How it started vs. How it's going.

The character-puppet thing ended up being the basis for the boss designs instead of the Robot Maid herself.

I could salvage it, but I'd think adding a mode where bosses fight each other is a bit too extra.