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QuoteYes I meant I don't really want to setup a Unity Account to buy things from you - because I don't use Unity.

Ha, I misunderstood.

You don't necessarily need Unity to use the assets.

When you buy the assets at itch.io you can download a "assets only" file too.

It is also possible to "extract" all assets from the unity file.

Galaga Essentials: https://playniax.itch.io/galaga-essentials-art-pack
Space Shooter Art Pack 01: https://playniax.itch.io/space-shooter-art
Space Shooter Art Pack 02: https://playniax.itch.io/space-shooter-art-pack-02

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

QuoteCool, this Galaga-hybird is looking spot on.  I got my eye on this one    I'm not a unity user so the templates do nothing for me but I'll be a customer of the game when time comes.  Nice work.

Thanks. I understand about the template thing. Your stuff looks great too. What engine do you use?

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When you buy the assets at itch.io you can download a "assets only" file too.

Great. Purchased The Space Shooter Art Pack 2.

Thanks, we appreciate it!

Quote from: playniax on December 16, 2022, 06:48:42

QuoteCool, this Galaga-hybird is looking spot on.  I got my eye on this one    I'm not a unity user so the templates do nothing for me but I'll be a customer of the game when time comes.  Nice work.

Thanks. I understand about the template thing. Your stuff looks great too. What engine do you use?

Stride Engine - https://www.stride3d.net/
and
LE 4.6 openGL Engine - https://www.ultraengine.com/

I use both these engines religiously.

Interesting engines. I stick with Unity for now cause I invested a lot of time and after using Blitz Basic / Monkey (I wrote my own engines for that) I need something that is still around for many years.

Anyway, here is how the shop in the game looks now:

Nice clean looking UI..   I'm currently in the middle of designing, scripting and deploying a UI for my game.. Not my favorite part of a project.   but possibly one of the most important parts!!

Thanks. Do you do everything alone? We at Playniax are with 2.

I never got around to program the behaviour of the final boss that Defenstar used so I finally got to do it and it's almost finished. This will also make it in the next update of Space Shooter Pack 02

Here is the preview:

I have added tons of new features "under the hood" and got carried away (you probably know how that goes).

This means updates to the framework too so I will upload the news version to the Unity store as soon as I have updated the docs on it.

One thing I have added to the game is a Space Invaders-ish part and again it amazes me how brillant Space Invaders actually is.

I will post some stuff soon...

Good stuff.

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and again it amazes me how brillant Space Invaders actually is.

Yep, I was actually playing Space Invaders on my Atari 800 today!   

Very nice playniax!  I love that ufo's animation sequence.  I have to admit, after playing your webgl version last month I was allkinds of inspired to do a rail shooter myself ( been working on it for about a month or less now ).  Something about the old style arcade'ish playstyle I can't get enough of.

Keep it up! I very much am lookin forward to seeing your final release.

ps: You aren't kidding about how simple those games looked but once you start coding some game logic you find out pretty fast that there was a lot more to them then we thought.

Quote from: Steve Elliott on January 17, 2023, 18:53:21
Good stuff.

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and again it amazes me how brillant Space Invaders actually is.

Yep, I was actually playing Space Invaders on my Atari 800 today!   

I keep meaning to go back and finish the space invaders game I wrote around 5 years ago now. It's probably around 90% done - the dreaded percentage - but I'd need to rip out all the art stuff I used, such as copies of the cabinet and original graphics, just to be safe. Only meant it to be a little test project to learn some new coding tricks but it was a good little game. Probably because the original game is. This is why developers liked doing conversion work so much back in the day, I reckon. You don't need to make the game fun, just be as accurate as possible to the original game, because the designer already did that.

Quote from: Steve Elliott on January 17, 2023, 18:53:21Good stuff.

Quoteand again it amazes me how brillant Space Invaders actually is.

Yep, I was actually playing Space Invaders on my Atari 800 today! 

Really? I guess can't beat the originals

Quote from: Alienhead on January 17, 2023, 20:54:59Very nice playniax!  I love that ufo's animation sequence.  I have to admit, after playing your webgl version last month I was allkinds of inspired to do a rail shooter myself ( been working on it for about a month or less now ).  Something about the old style arcade'ish playstyle I can't get enough of.

Keep it up! I very much am lookin forward to seeing your final release.

ps: You aren't kidding about how simple those games looked but once you start coding some game logic you find out pretty fast that there was a lot more to them then we thought.

Thanks, I am really impressed with your stuff too man. Do you do your own art as well?

Quote from: Xerra on January 19, 2023, 17:12:04Only meant it to be a little test project

This is sometimes how it starts but get out of hand quickly