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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.

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.

Japanese Neko games!

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.

Alex

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?

Good idea. I think at this point I am leaning towards a Lightnings Shadow game, because then I could support multiplayer too.

Nice!
By the way, do you have any time limit of some sort?

my geuss is the only limit would be it has to be done by the end of the semester. So early/mid May

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.

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?
ambient, windy stuff, maybe?
and shots, kabooms and crackles?

How is EvilPenguin allowed come back as EvolPenguin when he was banned?

OT, but I wondered that too

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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.

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

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.

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 ) or something.
And add some flowers and bushes and stuff