GATTACATTA
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| Hmmm...I first thought I was making fun of gattaca, but then it's still a real gene sequence as gattacatta, haha. DOH! EITHERWAY, after a VERY long time of doing nothing or not much at all with blitzmax or any game coding, I was in the mood to start something, so I made this experiment. It's still in the very earliest stage, but it's already kinda fun, I think. I hope it brings nobodies machine to its knees, but well, it does realtime rayshading on the player itself. - COMPLETELY PROCEDURAL: all content is being created on the fly (I've just decided to reduce the little enemies to balls, but there's a complete spaceship random design routine in there!) - COMPLETELY NONVIOLENT: ...so far! 8}   GAMEPLAY: - STEAL the orange glowing TOKEN from the little sperms (I guess, haha) - DELIVER it over the pulsing circle SCORING: - TIME between you carry the token to delivering it to the circle multiplied by the current subwave of enemies presents. TODO: - ...make an actual game out of it - ...nice LED system instead of font - ...procedural sound creation - ...nice receiver units (no more pulsing circle) - ...plenty of new modes - ...intro/menu, hiscore, level codes - ...even more funny procedural design routines - ...optimize the whole code (it's very crude right now!) DOWNLOAD LINK (latest update!): GATTACATTA |
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| Hey look! It's Taron!! Awesome little game thingy. Everything is procedural, you say? |
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| amazing gameplay, even now looking forward to a full game |
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| THANK YOU, Ben! The way I'm making this is so wild, it's surprising me by the very nature of it. I'm basically setting up a number of systems and rules and it just designs itself. Currently it doesn't show much of this, but soon you'll see...haha...it's really funny! 8))) Yes, Plash, everything is procedural! The background design, even the vignette, the player ship, although I currently fixed the parameters and soon you'll see all the random design enemies. The game logic has only very few rules and I may open it up even more for parametrical minigame designs, but that's gonna be a while... Anyway, THANK YOU BOTH for the quick and highly encouraging feedback! I'm really having a blast, thank you! |
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Highest score is 125 so far :) |
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| Amazing! The graphics are awesome, the gameplay is addictive... magic! :D |
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| Wow, thanks Andrei, that's really a fantastic compliment! I'm starting to get a little scared now to keep it growing adequately! :} Yay, Plash, if you try to hang on to the token for as long as possible before dropping it off, you'll get even higher scores! ;) |
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| Nice looking game that, quick question though, does each one of them enemies hold 23 chromosomes? <---- Joke!!! :D Well done! ;) Dabz |
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| Yay, Plash, if you try to hang on to the token for as long as possible before dropping it off, you'll get even higher scores! ;) Ahh.. I was wondering what that multiplier thingy near the score was all about! |
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| Very stylish, I love it. |
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| Very nice...as usual from this guy. ;) But what's with the weird res? |
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| Uh, reactions, and more nice ones, too! SWEET! Dabhand: I'm still trying to put sense into it, but it'll come... ;) wmaass: THANK YOU! :) MGE: I was already bracing myself, when I saw you've responded, haha. I like it that way for some reason. Might be the cinematic confinement of the "arena". I already have a plan to really make this explain itself, but it'll be a while before the final kicker comes into effect. THANK YOU, by the way! I'm flattered :blush: ... :} |
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| It reminds me of spaceship quidditch for some reason. :D Very addictive tho, well done. |
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| Dabhand: I'm still trying to put sense into it, but it'll come... ;) Pardon the pun eh! ;) Hehehe Dabz |
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| cool concept |
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| Quick question: How are you drawing the trails? Lots of particles, or continuous mesh? |
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| Ah, lines from particle to particle. Stores anchors per particle, to automatically sort them correctly. It all goes through one single type. I had written a spring system for my first game a long time ago for which I already came up with a similar solution. This one, however, is a whole lot easier... :} THANKS, Zambani & ICECAP! ;) A new version is coming up. I hope it won't burn up the slower machines, hehehe... (ARGH) |
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| Ah, I see. Easier than I thought. :) I was asking because I've been working on a ribbon (continuous mesh) system for a few days and was curious if you might have optimization secrets you might want to share :) Once again, excellent result with dynamically generated content. When I last tried dynamically generated content, my results were all very... unnatural. Guess it was because my experience as an artist was very limited. Your project on the other hand feels very lively :D I'm thinking it's the lighting effects that do the trick. |
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| Absolutely, the lighting is kind of like polishing turds, HAHAHAHA! But, yeah, it's some artistic decision-making for sure. I love to experiment and if the results look encouraging then...uhm...it's encouraging to continue and inspiring, of course. As for optimizing...well...some solutions are as tight as they come and the rest is expert coding. I know non of the above for sure, HAHAHA, but I'm certainly trying my best. If I knew exactly what you're doing, I'd be happy to help brainstorm it. But something tells me you should be way ahead of me. UPDATE IS UP (DOWNLOAD FROM FIRST POST!) I'm trying to come up with a different scoring concept. Away from the whole currency idea of numbered scores, I'm developing a type of "resource based" success system. Right now it's just preliminary, but ultimatively it's energy you'll collect to create upgrades and goodies. I wrote a spiral/lens opening formula, which makes a neat looking element, but it may slow down the systems a bit?! Let me know, if it's too much trouble, please. On my system (3ghz) there are no problems, except a few jerks when all "sperms" are exiting after each wave. Gotta check into that, too. I'm also working on a second meter system, which rewards again the time you hold on to the energy. I might do two type upgrade system for it. One is extra gadgets, the other is ship traits (speed, agility, (spoiler alert <LOL>) burst modes) |
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| Another little update! (link's always in first post!) Added a "Pause" function. Just hit "p"! It's just rudimentary and I'll put eventqueuing back in, I think. |
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| Well, downloaded it, but it opens a 'windows' (without border) - left centered, and I can't see part of the screen/playground. I like the 'graphics' |
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| Well, downloaded it, but it opens a 'windows' (without border) - left centered, and I can't see part of the screen/playground. Ditto. Makes the game unplayable for me. Nice graphics. |
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| Taron - For the next update, keep your code/logical screen the same but tie into the new virtual res/screen available and perhaps allow use the user to enter an optional starting physical resolution. ? |
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| Strange...?! I've uploaded a mild change now... does that fix the issue? I purposely removed the frame, but it should be centered. On two different machines here, running winxp 64 and 32 at different resolutions (1280x800 and 1680x1050) it pops it smack into center! Let me know, if the new version fixed that, please!? Sorry about that... |
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| Oh, we must've typed at the same second, haha! I'm not sure if I understand "the new virtual res/screen available"?! Sounds very interesting, but I'm just not sure what you mean... :{ ...hope you don't mind if I ask? OOOOOHHHHHHHH there's a new VIRTUAL RESOLUTION thingy... hmm, I couldn't update my SVN lately for some reason. I gotta check into that. Not sure how any of this works, yet, though. Any hint is very welcome, of course! THANKS! Ultimatively I'm sure I need to start with a selection window for resolution and maybe a choice between directX and openGL. Thanks for the suggestion and care, MGE, sorry I missed the comment and respond a bit confused. I have to warm up to coding again, too. :} Grrrr...just updated blitzmax to 1.36, which added almost 10kb to my compile. :{ (UPDATE ABOVE, by the way!) v0.2d Eitherway, now I can see if I find out what's the deal with the virtual stuff. |
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| UPDATED! (first post download) Hit P to pause the game. While paused hold down the left mouse button to reposition the window! I'll find a cleaner solution, too, but just for now. Also, for those, who had trouble with the window position, please tell me your resolution, OS and if it was a dual monitor perhaps? Thanks for checking it out again, then, too, of course! |
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| Nice little game, but is causes a crash in my computer. Intel Core Quad Q9450@.... GeForce 9600GT. |
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| Woops! Thanks and I'm sorry! Dare I ask roughly about the situation? It's still very crude, so there may be some sloppy things happening, but I'll have to track them down... ...hope you don't mind letting me know at what point it went down? |
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| Am I alone in my hatred of people with this much talent? How the hell can you generate that ship procedurally? Outstanding work once again, Taron. |
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| HAHA, Thanks John! Man...that really makes me wonna release the little enemy ships, but they'll have to wait. :} I've posted an update, found a problem and solved it. However, this is all still experimental, so the funny clown nosed obstacles are just a test. Wrote a simple collision system that seems to work fine and add interesting nonsense into the mix! 8P Eitherway, thanks again, John! I only wished I could do it in openGL with shaders. That way I might be able to tickle a whole new level of wild out of the look and speed. |
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| Ok, tried version 0.2f P to pause, and mouse to move the windows works. I'm running on Windows XP pro sp2 in 1024x768 (my monitor can handle up to 1280x1024, my eyes no... :D) I've tested in 1280x1024 and it works correctly (window is 'centered' and everything is visible) Grrrr...just updated blitzmax to 1.36, which added almost 10kb to my compile. :{ I think this is due to the new compiler option (speed vs size) used in the latest BCC version. |
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| Seriously...when you combine someone who can code and is also an incredible graphic artist, you get Taron. Just jaw dropping amazing. |
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| Hey degac, that's great news, I'm happy! I'll see that I take care of resolution options next, too! MGE, I'm still working hard on doing justice to your kindness. I seriously hope I'll learn to instruct the GPU to really find out what machines can do nowadays. However, if I had your dilligence and consistency I'd be inclined to blush less at such wonderful compliments! :} |
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