PGD Big Boss Entry: Earth Under Fire

[Galfar]

You can download my PGD Competition entry called Earth Under Fire from
here (4MB, source included)


large screenshot

It is simple space shooter. I didn't have much time for it - four levels only,
code is messy. Some bugs that were in final PGD entry version are fixed
in this one.

[savage]

Screen shot looks great. I'll try and download it this week-end.

PS. Your post has now been promoted to being a news item.

[Traveler]

I second that,..

Going to give it a try this weekend

[cairnswm]

Yay - A game small enough for me to download and test

[Traveler]

I played your game today. It worked pretty much okay for me, despite one access violation during the first level (after training).

Overall I thought the game was quite slow. Fighters, bullets, lasers, everythings is going a bit slowly. It lacks the action I see in other spaceshooters. I feel you could have done more to spice it up a bit. Your weapon variations are nice though.

The collision detection needs some work. There were several times where rochets went through either myself or the enemy.
Also (more of a design issue), unless you want to have a highscore, there's little need to actually destroy the enemies (except for the bosses) Its quite easy to go around enemies to collect pickups without getting destroyed in the process. I did notice in further levels fighters were equipped with guided missiles so that appraoch might not work there, but it's still something you might want to look into.

[Chebmaster]

The info windows at the top are incomfortable, making my eyes run to the top to check the health/energy and distracting from the battle.

Suggestion 1:
With ships so though, taking many hits to destroy, they just ask for the pain skins. I think, even the simple blackened spots will do.

Suggestion 2:
Make energy level visible on the ship itself (some variably glowing part, or something like that).

Suggestion 3:
That huge, spectacular, rotating nebula is too obwious (looks cool at first, but then more and more like a solid object). Slow it down to make its rotation less noticeable, or make it rotate on the edge of the screen, with only half of it visible.

[WILL]

Is there a homepage or project site for your game?

And BTW, very nice visuals! I couldn't play it unfortunately because of a crash bug that comes up at just after the title. :?

[Galfar]

No project homepage yet.
Sorry about crash bug
(I hope that judges haven't encounter it).

[Galfar]

There is a new version of Earth Under Fire available at:
http://galfar.vevb.net/cms/projects/euf.html.

Game has been extended and many bugs have been fixed since Big Boss version in May.
There are new missions, new weapons, new ships, and other things. High score tables and saving of players progress in campaing has been added too.

Some issues that Traveler and Chebmaster wrote about in previous posts has been fixed too:
gameplay is somewhat faster now, missile collisions were fixed, energy levels are now visible on directly on your ship (and bosses and your allies too).

I would appreciate any comments or bug reports.

If the game seems too tough you can set difficulty to Easy in Setings.exe program.

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[savage]

Hi Marek,
Did anyone make this a news item? I don't remember seeing this on the news page.