GemChase Alpha

[Huehnerschaender]

I don't know if you have an off-by-one error, but apparently you can have 0 in life and still play :eh:

Oh yes, thanks for that! My life value is of "single" type and if it reaches a value <1> 0 it is shown as 0 I will change that!

An completely different thing. I've been thinking about creating a game were the control will be the same as in your game. May I ask how you do the movement in your game. I was thinking of using a vector to represent motion and one for gravitiation. Is that how you did it?

I have 3 Vectors and 1 constant.

Position, Velocity and Acceleration = Vector
Gravity = constant

Now... in this little game I do not really need Acceleration, becaus I just set y value of Acceleration Vector to Gravity. But you will need it for other things like rockets etc.

The new position is always calculated something like this:

Velocity := Velocity + Acceleration;
Position := Position + Velocity;

Now you can change things like Acceleration or Velocity to control the movement...


@godbeast:
It seems that your video card/driver has problems with texturefonts from DanJetX. I will upload a new version tonight, which uses both, prerendered texturefonts and runtime generated fonts. It would be nice if you could test if you can read anything written on screen.

@skri: I have ATI X1600 Pro PCIE
I don't think that the issue is brand related... but I guess it is some kind of problem between DanJetX and NVidia drivers.

@Setharian:
Please tell us your driver version so we can check if there maybe is an issue with NVidia drivers.

Thank you all very much for testing!

[Legolas]

ForceWare 165.01 and BIOS video version 5.73.22.07.02 here, if it can help

[Huehnerschaender]

Thanks Legolas.

New upload (link is in first post).

Unfortunately no changes to the video card related issues.


- added some test levels. Collect the gems shown in UI (bottom of screen) in a given time (countdown is shown upper right, this is just a placeholder for a real countdown) to procedd to next level.

- added changing background support

- added random meteor attack (which spawns only in level where it is configured)

- added bonus colors. If a bonus color period occurs, the gems of that color give 10 extra points when collected.

- more sound, more music

- If countdown runs down to zero, game ends

I think thats it for today... I need to get up early tomorrow.

Greetings,
Dirk

[savage]

Hi Dirk,
I find the meteor shower a bit annoying and it really comes down to pure luck whether you survive them or not. Maybe only have them appear for a limited time if you fail to pick up certain bonuses.

[Huehnerschaender]

Hey Dom,

the game is still in Alpha state so the meteor shower spawns much too often, the meteors are too fast and the frequency of single meteors also has to be adjusted. It was added just to show it in this version. There will be some other "handicaps" which happen during gameplay. It shows just the idea.

I assume the game runs well on your machine?

Greetings,
Dirk

[savage]

I assume the game runs well on your machine?

Yes the game runs fine. No glitches to report.

[pstudio]

I just tried it out, and though I know it's still in alpha I have some thoughts.

It doesn't make sense that the metoers can fly through walls. It woulds seem naturally for me if they deflected instead. Perhaps made an explosion instead, which you don't wanna be near of.

It would be an idea, if you made sure that the game actually spawned the gems you needed. I waited 30 seconds to get 3 fuchsia gems. I died of time out :?

That's it for now.

Btw. Love your intro

[Huehnerschaender]

It doesn't make sense that the metoers can fly through walls. It woulds seem naturally for me if they deflected instead. Perhaps made an explosion instead, which you don't wanna be near of.

Yep, meteors will collide with walls. So you can hide under a platform during a meteor shower (reducing the risk to get hurt, but losing time)

It would be an idea, if you made sure that the game actually spawned the gems you needed. I waited 30 seconds to get 3 fuchsia gems. I died of time out :?

I know... The levels in the last Alpha are "worthless". Just a test to show what I have. I already have implemented more leveldata. I can now configure the chance of each color to spawn, and I also can configure the amount of simultanous spawns.

I had some problems with timing all the states of the game, but I am nearly done and a new Alpha will come tomorrow I guess. Now with a lot of speech-sounds (I sat the whole day recording my damn voice and changing the pitch to make it sound like I thought it should be (the UFO is steered by a green little alien, and you hear his voice during game) )

The program becomes more and more a real game each additional hour I work on it.

Btw. Love your intro

Thank you very much! *rofl*

[savage]

The program becomes more and more a real game each additional hour I work on it.

Does this mean we will see this as part of Valgard's Fate ;-)?

[Huehnerschaender]

*hehe*

No.


Valgards fate is still in progress, don't worry. I am just a little lazy with rendering characters animations. I want him to have a hammer in his hand which forces me to redo all animation renderings

This little game her was meant to be finished in a few days... ok, I did not finish it within the timerange I thought, but there are already much more features than I wanted to include. But some of them were really necessary to make it worth to be called a game.

The game will be finished within this week! There is no excuse, no reason that it will not. The only thing which may be left open are the issues on some computers... I already spent much time in them, but I did not find any fault in my own rendering procedures... I am on it on Dans forums.