A simple AGS Shoot 'em up

abstauber · Fri 27/11/2009 09:19:38

Have you already switched over to raw drawing?

I'm using *cough* GUI buttons. But they work perfectly and I have the feeling, that moving buttons around is much faster than overlays.

Anyhow, I use one GUI for the Enemies + Player, one GUI for enemy bullets and one GUI for player bullets. Since you can have 30 elements per GUI and as much GUIs as you like, I think that's fair enough

Also you don't have to worry about z-order and animations.

Arboris · Sat 28/11/2009 16:45:55

I've been using rawdraw (or DrawImage as it's known now) for a while now. As you can see in the test versions (not the demo linked in my sig) I've got the basics down now, and 'just' need to create a decent game with it now. Which means creating sprites, attack patterns etc.

the only thing i haven't tried yet is some sort of boss composed out of multiple objects. you can't have a shooter without some sort of boss fight

abstauber · Mon 30/11/2009 08:38:42

Quoteyou can't have a shooter without some sort of boss fight

Exactly

Bosses are just chunks of enemies so it should take you long to implement them. Speaking for myself, attack-patterns are a real pain...

Arboris · Thu 03/12/2009 00:30:29

Did a bit of work again this night, trying to get some sort of boss fight. The boss wasn't really thought about, and I just made it on the fly.It was a 'right that works, now what should it do next?' process. You no longer use the mouse to move your ship, and you'll have to use the keyboard. Directional keys for the movement of your ship and Space to shoot.

Download Test version 1.04

A little disclaimer:
The sprites that compose the various boss parts are not mine. Neither is the music (that one comes from Streets of Rage)

Ryan Timothy B · Thu 03/12/2009 02:47:00

Don't forget to add a WASD and a 8456 (keypad) control too. Some keyboards (like my laptop, for example) can't use arrow keys in a certain combination with the space bar. (Like down+left and space. The arrow keys will be ignored and the ship will stop dead)

I played around 10 or so times and still can't beat the boss guy.

I either suck, or it's hard.

abstauber · Thu 03/12/2009 07:40:02

Nice work. Although the boss is really tough, I had fun blasting him away

@Ryan:
Attack early and stay close, then it's quite easy.

Arboris · Thu 03/12/2009 12:05:21

And here I was thinking it might be a bit too simple. You still have the unfair advantage of using the test gun, which spits out an enormous amount of bullets every cycle

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The keypad should work already, wasd is easily enough implemented.

DoorKnobHandle · Thu 03/12/2009 12:52:23

I had no trouble beating the boss actually!

Nice work!

Ryan Timothy B · Thu 03/12/2009 17:40:19

See! I just suck.

I actually beat him after a few more tries, but I definitely wouldn't say it's easy. Perhaps it's mostly because my bullets are so freakin huge that they distract me from enemy fire.

DoorKnobHandle · Thu 03/12/2009 17:49:57

You have to destroy the center guns first as they are dangerous. If you start shooting before the boss even appears, the first one can be broken before it fires one shot. Then get the second and after that it's a piece of cake.

Arboris · Thu 03/12/2009 20:26:41

Your bullets aren't THAT huge, you just fire an ungodly amount of them. Which makes it look like a sea of blue

Kweepa · Tue 15/12/2009 03:46:45

This is pretty cool!
This and the shooter section of abstauber's latest game make me want to get back to the AGS conversion of Imagine's Arcadia I abandoned...