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Post by rudel_ic » Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:30 pm

wormguy wrote:I haven't seen a truly excellent top down shooter yet.
Sho Ren Sha. Goldrunner 2. Xenon II. And some japanese ones I've forgotten.
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Post by Eric » Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:44 pm

i kinda like that because of how fun mario is. but then again i can always just play mario on an emulator (or NES), so why bother.
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Post by Nuky » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:56 pm

Japanese Neko games! :D
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Post by EvolPenguin » Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:29 pm

Just letting you know Jeff, Quartz is hella slow. Believe me when I say this. OpenGL is probably a better path for you if you want to make a game. You might make puzzle games or stuff with Quartz, but I'm pretty sure it would be a better idea to use OpenGL. Take these words with some salt though, i have yet to complete a game using Cocoa (i quit a little while ago, as my partner was adamant on using BlitzMax, and I figured a BASIC (although OO) derivative is easier for me to learn than for him to learn Cocoa and such. Sorry for the rants, but good luck on w/e you do, I vote for a top down black shades clone myself.

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Post by Flickta » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:04 am

How 'bout a Worms clone? Something along the lines of Lightning's Shadow, but with three/four weapons and removed-pixel-by-pixel, not by-huge-chunks-of-background landscape?
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Post by Jeff » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:41 pm

Good idea. I think at this point I am leaning towards a Lightnings Shadow game, because then I could support multiplayer too.
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Post by Crill3 » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:09 pm

Nice!
By the way, do you have any time limit of some sort?
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Post by Eric » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:04 pm

my geuss is the only limit would be it has to be done by the end of the semester. So early/mid May
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Post by Jeff » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:25 pm

I need to do this by May 3rd. If you guys want to start creating graphics and ideas, that would be sweet. I will post updates as they come, although I probably won't be able to do some serious coding for a couple of weeks - I only have one Cocoa class per week which is where I am going to learn the language.
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Post by Nuky » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:22 am

What kind of "people" would be shooting eachother?
I doubt you'd use worms or mages.. :)

I'd gladly do some graphics, if even only to be rejected. I don't care if you would use it or not, cause the fun is in the making of it :)
/me thinks of stuff to draw

you need soundeffects / background music? :P
ambient, windy stuff, maybe?
and shots, kabooms and crackles? :P
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Post by Renegade_Turner » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:50 pm

How is EvilPenguin allowed come back as EvolPenguin when he was banned?
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Post by Crill3 » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:06 pm

OT, but I wondered that too :)
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Post by Silb » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:44 pm

<Off-topic warning>
I wondered that too, but if you look at EvolPenguin's profile you'll see he joined the forums a long time ago, on Apr 7 2004 (more than a year before EvilPenguin, Oct 9 2005, btw), so he's probably a different person.
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Post by Nuky » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:32 am

Uhm... I got bored and started making a map and stuff...

http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... ie13wy.jpg

This is something of the brightest I have made, but, oh well..
Layers are in this order:
  • Background
  • Clouds (hidden)
  • Simplified mask (less edges than foreground, also, this is where they would walk/projectiles would hit)
  • Grass (Yes, grass are behind the ground, but before the peoples)
  • Ground
  • Windmeter Background (hidden behind Windmeter)
  • Windmeter
  • WDirection background
  • WDirection arrow
And, no, I have no idea if this game would use wind at all, but maybeh :P

And, yes, it's not nice.
Quickly done.

Sorry.

/me goes to add more ugly stuff... oh, wait, I can't. I don't know how this game would be.


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Post by Crill3 » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:17 am

Sweet!
That was NOT ugly.

But that does not mean it can't be improved.
I don't think the ground should be green,
make it brown (earth :wink: ) or something.
And add some flowers and bushes and stuff :D
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