Retro remakes competition will open soon !

[Eriken]

2 weeks and a few hours away... The Deadline for the competition..

So, how's everyone doing? Starting to get stressed out? Looking at the time every 2 minutes?

If it's any comfort, we're abit worried about time as well, the DGDev-team which have made some effort to make a little something :twisted:
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Eriken

[cairnswm]

Not enough time to really do things properly. I have spent about 10 hours on my game so far but it looks great:

http://www.cairnsgames.co.za/timepilot/index.htm

Only screen shots for now. I'll try add the EXE and source later today if I get time.

[savage]

That looks very authentic. I was big fan of 1942 as well. Pumped a small fortune into that baby.

[cairnswm]

Thanks

I just want to fix a bug for game over then I'll put the EXE and source onto the web page.

The program has been written without using objects at all. So everything is stored in Record based arrays (not good). Also the use of ticks may actually cause a problem on really fast machines.

Oh well - dont have time to fix it so it will go in as it looks now.

[cairnswm]

All Finished

http:\\www.cairnsgames.co.za\timepilot\index.htm

Includes all Source code - and some utilities if you want them.

Executable (including all images) 1MB - Zipped 300KB
All images, Source, EXE, Utils - Zipped 1MB
Images and Source - Zipped 500KB


Note this source code is freeware - you can take it and use it for anything. I do not expect anything for it. Just please dont download it and send it in for the remakes competition :cry: .

The following aspects of the game can be improved:
1. Some intelligence on the enemies to hunt and kill the player
2. Guided missiles should actually try and target the player
3. Add additional logic for guided missiles in 1982 and 2001 phases
4. High Score function
5. Multiplayer function (The other player appears as a plane on your screen).
6. Change all images to 8 bit as it would make the game look better and smoother
7. Enemies and player should be able to face 16 directions instead of just 8 (The missiles already do)

I also wanted to make a 6th stage - Starwars - with lasers etc :twisted: .

[cairnswm]

The final results are up - they got 81 entries (3 were time pilot). I dont know if downloads prooves a game is popular but if so can everyone download entry number 56 for me


http://www.remakes.org/website/competition/results.php

[Momor]

Hey I've also been able to complete my entry !

It's called RunOut (#31 on the list).

That's the first time I make a game in so few time (I began this game on 2 of July).

That was fun.

[cairnswm]

Well done - I'll try take a look at it this week sometime

[Alimonster]

Congratulations to everyone who made a game!

Traveler, did you manage to complete yours?

[Traveler]

I'm almost ashamed to say no ops:

I know, my start may have looked good, but now that I look back on it, I can savely say that it was not. For example, the images I posted are pretty nice, but also totally useless. The fighter you see could't be used in the game. It's simply too wide. When I decrease it's size for ingame use, you can barely make out what it is. The best thing would be to make a new model.

Problem two. Somehow, I was under the impression that I was already capable of making a 3D game. I found out too late that I'm not. Not in two months time.

Problem three. (I can't really lie to myself, by ignoring this). Warcraft 3 has me in it's grasp. Now that I have access to BattleNet (since a month or two), I have wasted many hours playing custom W3 games like Tower Defence, Hero siege, pig defence, kodo tag and more.

All in all, I could have done a lot better. But not all work is wasted though. I may not have won any prizes, I did learn a couple new things.
Besides, now that the compo is over, it doesn't mean I can't continue the game...