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[9_6]

Gm Version 7

Resolution 320x240/640x480
Changes screen resolution Never. 'Resize 2x' just stretches the window.
Genre Bullet hell simulator

Screenshots


Description
Dodge thousands of bullets thrown at you in random patterns and survive as long as possible.
If things become tricky, you can slow down time or unleash a devastating charged attack to blast your enemies away and get health.
Watch the replay if you're not sure how to play this game (or want to laugh at how much I suck at my own game =P) and aim for the highest score!
In-depth information is in the game.

-DOWNLOAD-
YYG


The zip file contains the source.
Don't re-distribute the altered version of it without asking me first.
You may use all the sources I made (everything except the music) in your project if you credit me.

Highscore

Enjoy.

Online highscore done by siert. Thanks man.

Edited by 9_6, 18 March 2010 - 10:14 PM.

[scoz]

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Thank you SO MUCH I'm just so happy

+curtain shmup
+BRILLIANT curtain shmup
+Retro graphics
+REPLAYS!!!!!

and the mother of them all

+SOOOOOUUUUURCCCEEEE COOOOOODDDDEEEE


This ticks all the boxes

(but shouldn't this be in shooter?)

[9_6]

Thanks.
About the replays, they are off sometimes. Just a little tiny bit but it's enough to alter the outcome tremendously because of the slow motion.
That's not always the case though.
I made quite a lot and they always worked, then I uploaded it here, thinking I finally got it to work, make another one and BAM, death in round 3 although I reached round 23...

All my attempts to solve this -recording the slowmotion rate and the moments you get hit along with the input etc.- only resulted in a more unprecise outcome. I have no idea what gives.
The result even changes if another instance than the mainmenu starts the replay although there is NO reason for that and I searched for it... believe me I searched... 3 cursed days did I spend on searching!

Anyway, you have the source so if anyone has any idea what's wrong (if you can make sense of my code) I'd apreciate it if you told me because I have absolutely no idea and I tried everything. Even the things that don't make sense and oddly enough, they even had an effect.

Edited by 9_6, 29 January 2009 - 05:48 AM.

[scoz]

Thanks.
About the replays, they are off sometimes. Just a little tiny bit but it's enough to alter the outcome tremendously because of the slow motion.
That's not always the case though.
I made quite a lot and they always worked, then I uploaded it here, thinking I finally got it to work, make another one and BAM, death in round 3 although I reached round 23...

All my attempts to solve this -recording the slowmotion rate and the moments you get hit along with the input etc.- only resulted in a more unprecise outcome. I have no idea what gives.
The result even changes if another instance than the mainmenu starts the replay although there is NO reason for that and I searched for it... believe me I searched... 3 cursed days did I spend on searching!

Anyway, you have the source so if anyone has any idea what's wrong (if you can make sense of my code) I'd apreciate it if you told me because I have absolutely no idea and I tried everything. Even the things that don't make sense and oddly enough, they even had an effect.

well, it's a LOT of stuff to go through so I don't know if you already have this but couldn't you put an if clause into your replay, so even if, for whatever reason there is a collision between bullet and ship if it's not when the death occured the collision event is ignored? So, put the time of death in the replay data?

I can't believe this hasn't had more attention. It's awesome

[9_6]

Thanks.

well, it's a LOT of stuff to go through so I don't know if you already have this but couldn't you put an if clause into your replay, so even if, for whatever reason there is a collision between bullet and ship if it's not when the death occured the collision event is ignored? So, put the time of death in the replay data?

Had that already.
Problem is, if you get hit, time slows down so if a hit gets ignored, the whole timing gets out of whack.
I've been through recording the moments you get hit along with recording the slowmotion-rate and it only lead to replays that are even more off than before with you buzzing through dense bullet curtains without getting hit, then suddenly getting hit although the bullets are miles away etc. and like I said, all measures to force precision into it only resulted in it being more and more off.
It's a very sensitive system.

The only other solution would be recording the positions and angles of all sprites each -or each second- frame but that would lead to notable loading times and quite large replays.
I've let that run for 2 seconds once and it hit the 320000 max length of arrays already!

Edited by 9_6, 31 January 2009 - 11:33 AM.

[Overman]

I like it, 4/10.

[banov]

Wow-- saw your post in my topic, realized you were the competition. Good luck! I played this earlier when I saw the Bytejacker episode, so I suppose I may as well share my thoughts...

I liked it! Really cool straight-up schmup, with a cool timing mechanic that makes the game feel fresh while simultaneously keeping our beloved shooting intact. Only problem is that it didn't feel like it had a great deal of depth, and as such didn't have much to keep me playing for long.

Again, good luck on Bytejacker, I wouldn't be surprised to see this do well in the polls.

[Hach-Que]

I completely suck at this game, but it's still good.

[siert]

I love this game. And I've had no problems with the replay (which is a great idea!).

I've got to say that this has got me started on my online highscores again.

5 out of 5

[scoz]

I just saw who posted this.

Why are you making new games when you could be finishing Hyperwars???

[9_6]

Uhh... sorry?
Also that's not quite as new as you may think.

Edited by 9_6, 09 February 2009 - 10:59 PM.

[scoz]

Uhh... sorry?
Also that's not quite as new as you may think.

No, I know how old Hyperwars is (a couple of years). I also know how good hyperwars is, but you said that it was only 40% completed.

[Legendary]

Uhh... sorry?
Also that's not quite as new as you may think.

Yeah, I remember playing this a long time ago. It is a very good game, any particular reason you waited until now to make a topic for it?

[9_6]

Well first it was intended as a minigame in another game but I sort of gave up on that.
Also I added some new features to it before making the thread here.

Uhh... sorry?
Also that's not quite as new as you may think.

No, I know how old Hyperwars is (a couple of years). I also know how good hyperwars is, but you said that it was only 40% completed.

You know, I have a version of it lying around with twice the content (because of those 2-way levels) here.
The only thing that keeps me from releasing it is the crappy powerup system that stops the gameplay flow and the lack of a propper epic final boss that fills 10 screens.
I'll get to it again some day but it's so full of stuff that it's not fun to work on it anymore.

Edited by 9_6, 10 February 2009 - 08:04 AM.

[Ratchetmon]

Yeah we all get tired of developing eventually.

I really like this game. It's fast pace keeps me on the edge of my seat and at the same time not burning my eyes.

Keep up the good work!

[9_6]

Update
Thanks to siert, this game has online highscores now!
The links in the first post have been updated with the new version!

Unfortunately I didn't get any further with implementing the new replay system so -apart from that- there are no new features.

Oh yeah, it's created with gm7 now so it should be fully vista compatible.

Edited by 9_6, 16 February 2009 - 10:17 PM.

[Diptoman]

Just one word to describe this: 'BRILLIANT'! (Plus, I'm really surprised at the low number of sprites used after looking at the source file of this. I never expected that you assembled different ship body-parts into a sprite!)
This is the first retro shooter I like, and I'm addicted to it.

My newest high score is 60313! OMG! Wonder if anyone can beat that...However, the replay's busted on this one and shows that I died at 14818 or something like that. (But I still have my replay on my previous score of 42197 which works perfectly!)

[Broxter]

I love the 'Replay' functinon. It's cool to see you playing your own game.

- Broxter

[ghettoblastar]

Haha,
Awesome work.
I liked the insults alot.
"Idiot" "You Suck!"
Made me angry,
So i played even more!

10/10

Edited by ghettoblastar, 21 February 2009 - 01:11 PM.

[Hach-Que]

Woo! 60460! That would have put me at number 5 on your highscore list (if it was actually submitted there).