GemChase Alpha

[Huehnerschaender]

Hi people,

in the end of last week I read through the "Fly the copter" thread and played the game a few times myself... It was so addictive, while really simple that I thought about making a little and very simple game myself over whitsun weekend.

Idea is as simple as gameplay:

Collect as many gems as you can to get highscore.

There are different colors of gems:
Purple = 1 Point
Red = 3 points
Blue = 5 points
Green = 10 points
Yellow = 15 Points
Cyan = 20 Points

The gems spawn randomly (color and position).

Controls are easy, too:

Use Arrowkey to thrust... thats it.

Don't hit any walls, it will drain your life. And guess what... if life drops down to zero, you die

It would be nice if some of you could test this Alpha version to see if the gameplay works. The final game will have some additions like a countdown, a changing special color (the gems of that color will give double points for a while), changing levels etc...

I plan to finish the game until monday night, eventually on tuesday.

A screenshot:



And here is the download:
http://www.dino-it.de/GemChaseAlpha.zip

Please report issues and other feedback here

Greetings,
Dirk

[Traveler]

I've tried your game for a bit but I'm afraid it looks nothing like the screenshot you've posted. I can see the gui, walls, the ship and even the trusters on the ship and the explosion when I die, but that's it. No background or gems are visible to me.

From what I can see the game does seem to work like it should though.

[Huehnerschaender]

Hi Alex. Thanks for testing!

Is it possible to see a screenshot? Is the glow around the gems visible? Can you collect gems even if they are not visible?

[technomage]

I tested the game here. It worked Fine , no problems

[Srki_82]

Hi,

everything is looking great. There is GUI, background, ship, thrusters, gems, shader is working nice, but... I can't fly. Left-right is working ok, but when I pres up nothing happens. Thruster is visible but ship is not flying.

[Huehnerschaender]

Is the ship moving left and right?

How much FPS do you have?

[tanffn]

I have the same problem as Srki_82, I can move left and right but not up though the thrusters are visible.

I get 14FPS..

[Huehnerschaender]

Ok, thanks for the hint with FPS...

I think I fixed that problem.

What kind of system do you have? 14 FPS does not seem to be too much...

I will try to improve FPS...

[Srki_82]

FPS is 31.

Windows XP SP2 32bit
AMD Athlon 64 3000+, ~1.8GHz
Radeon X1300

Hope this would help

[Huehnerschaender]

Yes, this helps! Thank you...

I already increased FPS from 120 to 190-200 on my system. I hope I can increase it a bit more. I think the way I render the gems is eating too much performance. It's a 3D model I render to a rendertarget and then add it to the 2D scene...