Gridfire

Started by Steve Elliott, September 15, 2018, 09:42:08

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I'm revisiting my Gridfire game and am currently working on getting the retro pixel graphics completed.

In the screenshot there is only one tank, but there will be lots of psychopathic neon glowing AI Tanks trying to blow you to smithereens!  With bombs too for total chaos!!

There are 2 powerup tokens in green so far (one for ammo and one for bomb) and a real bomb on countdown.

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Didn't get too much done today, but tidied-up the screen layout, added a blue status bar and increased the available Grid Space from 9 X 5 to 11 X 5 (you move on the dark squares).

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Looking nice and sharp :) - Still loving the subtle clean retro CRT overlay ;D
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Thanks, sharper in-game (some compression here) yes I like the scan lines too - it gives some subtle texture  :)

Just deciding in what language to write it in.
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Quote from: Steve Elliott on September 17, 2018, 21:01:48
Just deciding in what language to write it in.
Hmm, stick to what you're using now :) - I bagsy doing games in the other language ;D #ShiftyCovertModeEnabled :))
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Hmm, stick to what you're using now :)

So that would be AGK, C++ and elgol  ;)

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#ShiftyCovertModeEnabled :))

Thanks  ;) but I think elgol wins.  I can't be doing with all this long-winded typing nonsense in AGK or C++/development library .

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QuoteThanks  ;) but I think elgol wins.  I can't be doing with all this long-winded typing nonsense in AGK or C++/development library .
AGK is very wordy and many commands would benefit from shortening and just having a few extra optional parameters. You could easily save 3 or 4 commands via this method. I will say though that I've never seen a faster interpreted language than AGK Tier 1 ( challenge ).

Really looking forward to getting my hands on your super secret project :)

But not to thread derail... Please do keep on with GridFire as it looks right up my street ;D
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Please do keep on with GridFire as it looks right up my street ;D

Oh I will  :)
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I've been working on another project for a couple of days, so just produced a new font and graphics tweaks today.

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Nice one, that new font works a lot better I think :)

* EDIT * - I love the graphical style of this... Any vids to share?  ;D
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Nice one, that new font works a lot better I think :)

I agree.   :)

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* EDIT * - I love the graphical style of this... Any vids to share?  ;D

Thanks, no video because I'm still working on graphics/animation frames and generally tweaking the look of the game.

Working on things like bomb explosions.  BOOOM!!!  The player was clearly too busy shooting at the tank to notice a nearby bomb.  :D
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That looks like a very toasty warm explosion ;D
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That looks like a very toasty warm explosion ;D

The quarterback, is toast!  ;)  and anybody within the blast radius   ;D

Quite tricky to get a bomb blast graphic I was happy with in Photoshop, but I'm happy with that.  And it lights up them scan lines nicely  ;D
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Quote from: Steve Elliott on September 21, 2018, 20:07:15
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That looks like a very toasty warm explosion ;D

The quarterback, is toast!  ;)  and anybody within the blast radius   ;D

Quite tricky to get a bomb blast graphic I was happy with in Photoshop, but I'm happy with that.  And it lights up them scan lines nicely  ;D

Spot on with the graphic.  Is this gonna be bomberman meets tanxs or an old school remake?  ;)

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Spot on with the graphic.  Is this gonna be bomberman meets tanxs or an old school remake?  ;)

Thanks.  It's gonna be Bomberman meets a few games from the 80's.  :)
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