WIP : Invaders in a week
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I know it's not original. I know it's been done before. But I've always wanted to work this one out.
OK, inspired by @SteveZX81 and his game in 48 hours I decided that might be nice but because of my work (not Fuze) my availability and time can be limited and unpredictable. It's all too easy to suffer from never finishing your projects so I think this is a great idea.
So... Invaders in a week. It will never get through share approval due to copyright but that's not my objective :D I tried to do this back in about 2013 on the Mac and never got far. Well, you know what they say, "Only Fuze makes it possible..." (they don't, that's actually the Amiga, but hey, we can nick it)
This is basically progress at the end of day 2. It's actually 1 evening and a day but who's counting apart from me?
You'll have to take my word for it that when the invaders reach the line at the bottom of the screen the background goes red and it all stops updating which for now signifies game over. But that would make the video very long.
[EDIT] Oops - just realised the tweet says half of that too !
Enjoy.
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Super, nice work !
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Totally inspiring! Nice!
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Great stuff indeed! Can't wait to see the destructable bases ;)
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@SteveZX81 said in WIP : Invaders in a week:
Great stuff indeed! Can't wait to see the destructable bases ;)
You're just cruel! I have some ideas now though.
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Amazing work and great that you've stuck with it. Enjoy seeing these retro 2D games.
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So, I just wasn't really feeling it yesterday. Eventually after a walk at 11PM I came back around midnight and spent a couple of hours just creating the font and doing a bit of work on the screen layout. This is what I'm aiming for so far, subject to change. The borders are grey during normal gameplay but of course I needed to see what the Game Over text looked like.
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I can't help but feel that is screaming out for a game in its own right! Revenge of the lonesome Invader!!
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Not much to really show from yesterday so no video (that and I'm working), but
- Player gained the ability to fire and kill the invaders
- Confirmed the speedup works as expected
- Added a simple game over mode so that rather than just giving an "array out of bounds" error once you've killed all the invaders you get a green game over screen instead of red if the invaders land
- Implemented all the different types of enemy missiles and started work on the firing logic. There's a few rules to how often they fire, what types of missiles they can fire when, and certain missiles have certain behaviours - bet you didn't know that :)
So actually quite a lot was done yesterday but not much of it is really visible.
Still a tonne more to put in yet and I really don't know if I'm going to make the 1 week deadline but we'll see how we go.
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Hold on a minute.. 'different types of enemy missiles'! what?
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Yep, 3 physically different kinds. One will always appear directly the above the player, another has limitations because it cannot be on the screen at the same time as the UFO, and one cannot appear when there are 8 or less invaders left. There are 3 counters controlling these and the limit the counters have to reach before they can spawn a missile varies depending on the player score.
I'm approaching this from a bit of a hybrid way. Some parts of the game like that and the movement will be a (hopefully) exact implementation. Other parts such as the screen, the layout and so on will be an implementation appropriate to the Switch. So it's a bit of a mix and match between clone with a bit of artistic license thrown in. It is 100% programmed in a Fuze way using sprites and all the rest of it. I'm not doing anything like coding an emulator.
Oh, and at the end, if I can muster up the skills then maybe I will do an "alternative graphics" version too that could be submitted to the showcase. We'll see. I want the original done first.
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Very interesting! can't wait to play both versions!
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As I suspected might happen, work and life has got the better of me after the bank holiday and there has been no work done on this since the Bank Holiday. Hopefully the "week" will resume at the weekend. I know it clashes with the gamejam so people will be busy with that but no matter.
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I hope you're counting the hours put in.. no cheating now, Total time of 1 week and 1 hour is not allowed ;) Just admit it mate, you've put it off because you don't want to do the bases. lol
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Hah! No. Just can’t face programming in the evenings after doing it all day. If we’re counting hours then I’ve got loads left because most of last weekend I didn’t do much at all during the day and usually started after dinner in the evening.
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..waits for update patiently..
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I was only thinking about this earlier. I'm hopefully going to get back to it at the beginning of the week for a day or two. I've got some things lined up and ready to go in my head, it's just getting the time now.
