Code a game competition - Jan 30th - Apr 10th 2018 - £500 worth of prizes \o/

[Xerra]

3 Weeks to go /panic. Have a look at one of the static images going somewhere in my game once I have the front end designed properly.

[Qube]

3 Weeks to go /panic. Have a look at one of the static images going somewhere in my game once I have the front end designed properly.

Nice - Are they 3D models but hand painted?

[Xerra]

I saw an original image which I liked the look of but I didn't have any rights to use it. So I got a guy on freelancer.com to draw me something in a similar style and he came up with that. Same guy has done my game sprites for me. Think I paid around £22 all-in.

[3DzForMe]

Very nice helicopter - you gets what you pays for. I confess, my mojo has been otherwise used up (so far) by other life stuff for this compo (I might be getting old...) . Still time to go though to dust off that keyboard.  Explored another avenue briefly for 3D ness (my JV-ODE license appeared to be locked to an old computer), its eluding me for now though.

Still just over a fortnight to go... tons of time.

They are coming, mostly at night.. mostly. Get ready to unleash the M41A Pulse Rifle. Ten millimeter, with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher

Sounds awesome

[Xerra]

I've taken a week off in preparation for some heavy crunching over the four day weekend coming up. I'm going to regret this, i know.

Game is feature complete but the balancing of the difficulty is a mess at present and I've got no transition to gradually make it get harder the longer you play apart from the level selection stage. I'm aiming for something that's pretty tough to begin with but gets gradually tougher and tougher so you get maybe 5 - 10 minutes a game. I'm not a fan of overly hard games but there's some out there that are pretty tough but they don't cheat you and you feel like you have progress every time you play.

At present this one is going to get pretty boring if it plays at the same level constantly, and you get good at it, because you'll be at it forever.

Also lacking a lot of polish such as decent screen fading and any sound effects at all right now.

Still, there's a couple of weeks to go. Plenty of time, right?

Right?

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[Qube]

Still, there's a couple of weeks to go. Plenty of time, right?

Right?

Yes, plenty of time - I keep telling myself that too. Still lots to do but it's getting there.

I should of thought it through doing this game as not only is it graphically heavy, so lots of drawing, it's also a huge massive time sucker doing the maps.

[Holzchopf]

Still lots to do but it's getting there.

That about sums it up. I'm too still working on it and I'm not even at a stage where I could easily summarize what's missing. But at least I'm not at a point yet where I have to decide which features I won't include. I just work, add tiny bit per tiny bit and eventually will come to an end =)

[Xerra]

Couple of WIP screenshots that show the new sprites I'm using for Envahi. A lot of the other stuff is still being jigged, though. Such as the HUD.

[Qube]

Couple of WIP screenshots that show the new sprites I'm using for Envahi. A lot of the other stuff is still being jigged, though. Such as the HUD.

Looks intriguing. Curious how it all fits together as there are a few mishmash visuals going on.

What's going on with the cyan panel on the left?. If looks like a screen shot taken off a CRT ( banding effect? ).

Overall though, chopper, bullets, ufo's, airwolf theme in my head, I'm in

[Derron]

I would say this is some kind of water-container.


bye
Ron

[freeman69]

Hope people like flight sims... in the form of a bargain basement homage to Jane's Longbow. Does anyone still use joysticks or a proper mouse, or is that ancient tech now?
Always loved helicopters, so I wasn't just being unimaginative when I plumped for an Airwolf/Blue Thunder scenario...

(To fly is heavenly, to hover is divine.)

[Xerra]

I would say this is some kind of water-container.

Yep, graphics aren't my thing. That's my dam. Tiles blocking off the water but the little Nibblers coming across the screen eat bits of the wall eventually causing a breach. Then the city below floods. It probably would make a lot more sense when the game is actually moving. Maybe I should try a video to make it clear. There's a simple little waves effect at the top of the dam but that won't be visible either in a static screenshot.

[Xerra]

Here you go. Envahi in a little playtest showing normal mode and suicide modes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka9g6-0bEok&feature=youtu.be

[Qube]

As we are just one week away...

Sheesh, literally 20 seconds into level 2 and already those pesky beasts are after me

Note : it all looks better when moving

[iWasAdam]

They all look brilliant