Retro games

[Connors]

So what are you going to do then?? Have each screen be a different level? You can't backtrack and explore around then. But then I guess it's too early to decide exactly what it will do and how.
But here's my two cents: if you use a different card for every room you can set it up however you like and have each card say what rooms it connects to.

[Gan]

That's how QOM works. Very nice way of organizing.

[Connors]

That's what I can't do with mine though, no cards. I want to figure it out but if I put all that info (connected rooms, dialogues, treasure) in the same code file I'd likely go nuts.

[Gan]

Hm. Probably best to separate into code files.
In Xcode you'd just make different classes to split them up, or just have verything in one class but fold the code so only a certain level is showing.

[EqwanoX]

So what are you going to do then?? Have each screen be a different level? You can't backtrack and explore around then. But then I guess it's too early to decide exactly what it will do and how.
But here's my two cents: if you use a different card for every room you can set it up however you like and have each card say what rooms it connects to.

but theres alot more to it, you gotta save all the enemy postitions, enemy types, pickups, keycards, and so on for each room. not to mention it would make level designing much harder. i think the gameplay should be fast paced,  and backtracking would just slow down the experience

basically right now, advanceing to the next level restores your regular speed so you can get the boots pickup for each level, keys get cleared, and health and ammo carry over

i want to alter the graphics more for the different enemy types, and ill work on a boss fight, if you fight boss' one on one we can probly add projectiles for the boss without slowing down the engine

[Zoo]

Yeah, sound's great. I'll keep working on basic levels.
Maybe there should be like 3 or 4 levels to a set of levels, then a boss battle, then a cutscene, then you get basic stats back and start the next set. That would organize things a little. How big is the window the game is in? I could work on a menu in Photoshop.

[Zoo]

Here's a map


 Â  LET spawntimer=8    //time between enemy spawning
 Â  LET enemylimit=50    //enemies in level
 Â  LET maxenemy=17   //maximum amount of enemies on-screen
 Â  LET line$(1)=  "00000000000000000000000"
 Â  LET line$(2)=  "10000111100000000000000"
 Â  LET line$(3)=  "1000019h100000000000000"
 Â  LET line$(4)=  "1000011R100000000000000"
 Â  LET line$(5)=  "10000000000000000000000"
 Â  LET line$(6)=  "100000000000p0000000000"
 Â  LET line$(7)=  "10000000000000000000000"
 Â  LET line$(8)=  "10000000011111110000000"
 Â  LET line$(9)=  "1000000001BpAA010000000"
 Â  LET line$(10)="10000000010000010000000"
 Â  LET line$(11)="10000000011111010000000"
 Â  LET line$(12)="100111T1111111010111110"
 Â  LET line$(13)="1001xxx00001a10101xxx10"
 Â  LET line$(14)="1001g0x000b0a10101k0y10"
 Â  LET line$(15)="10001ux10000a0010tbaa10"
 Â  LET line$(16)="10001111111111110111110"
 Â  LET line$(17)="10000000000000000000000"
 Â 

[EqwanoX]

hey gan, if you get a licence on the mac app store for a year, can you release as many games as you want within that year with no extra charges? would you want to try to submit gangwars while we work on this game? i went to the gangwars guys house and he doesnt live there anymore so i dont think we would have to worry about royalty fees or anything

[EqwanoX]

thats a good start. just make the player work a little harder. i tweaked it a little to show you. try not to wall off the edge of the screen and you should be ok

 Â  LET line$(1)=  "000010000000001hbh10000"
 Â  LET line$(2)=  "000010000000001000100A0"
 Â  LET line$(3)=  "0A10001T10Y00011R110000"
 Â  LET line$(4)=  "0A1000T9T000000000000Y0"
 Â  LET line$(5)=  "0111101T111111111100000"
 Â  LET line$(6)=  "00000010000100000000000"
 Â  LET line$(7)=  "00YY001h010001000000000"
 Â  LET line$(8)=  "00011R11111111011100011"
 Â  LET line$(9)=  "1011z000010A0A01A00000A"
 Â  LET line$(10)="00010g010RbzA001000Y000"
 Â  LET line$(11)="0K0100z1011111110000000"
 Â  LET line$(12)="11111111001AA1p1011R110"
 Â  LET line$(13)="0hA1xxx00010010101b0h10"
 Â  LET line$(14)="00010b0100110101010u010"
 Â  LET line$(15)="000000010000000101A0A10"
 Â  LET line$(16)="0001111111111111011111h"
 Â  LET line$(17)="000000A0000000A000000A1"

[Zoo]

Oops. I actually forgot about that. Um... Yeah. There wasn't supposed to be a wall there.

[Gan]

hey gan, if you get a licence on the mac app store for a year, can you release as many games as you want within that year with no extra charges? would you want to try to submit gangwars while we work on this game? i went to the gangwars guys house and he doesnt live there anymore so i dont think we would have to worry about royalty fees or anything

Yeah, unlimited amount of apps. As for the gangwars, who is this guy? I'd hate to put up a game that isn't fully yours. Well, I could put it up free but we'd have to make sure we're in the clear if it's a paid game.

[Zoo]

I like it.
I'll make more maps.

[Zoo]

I just made an intro to the game, Mind if I call the space station the player is in "Station EQ"? It sounds cool, and it is your game. Some airplanes autosend messages to an airport or whatever if something goes wrong. In my menu, it shows a screen of a computer that says that an auto sent message is incoming. Then it shows a message and says it was sent at 5:47 4/5/20XX. Then it says: Respond? Y/N. I'm thinking if you hit Y it starts the game, and if you hit N it quits.
http://www.mediafire.com/?5y3vsyq939d8p2x
I didn't make it a movie yet, but it should work if you throw it together in iMovie.

[Gan]

I like it:
Retro Game Title Movie

[Zoo]

Thanks. With a little movie editing, gan turns 21 pictures into an intro to a video game. What's the music you used, Can I have a download so we can loop it at on the menu?