Invaders Corruption (Anniversary Release)

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VomitOnLino(Posted 2011) [#1]
I have been working on and off on 'Invaders Corruption' for pretty much exactly one year now. And finally the game has made it's way to the App Store, as well.

I built it using mostly Blitzmax with a smattering of C and OpenGL. The sounds are courtesy of John Nesky, the fantastic soundtrack was provided by Carlo Castellano.

The game now features:
-12 Enemy types with 19 different AI behaviors
-10 Powerful power-ups
-15 Different backgrounds
-Procedurally generated everything
-Completely customizeable controls & settings
-Difficulty, look and game-play determined by seed
-And of course retro-cool graphics

To commemorate this huge update and new release I thought that I'd also best make a topic here.

To see a brief trailer head here or for the old musical trailer here.

Obligatory screenshot:


Oh almost forgot, the game is free and available for grabs for PC and Mac on it's website here.

If you have any questions, ask away! :)

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Nice_But_Dim(Posted 2011) [#2]
Very nice Vomit much better than a basic card game.


Kryzon(Posted 2011) [#3]
Retro yet contemporary... I think it's awesome. The soundtrack is exciting too.
What parts did you use C for?

@It: Apples and oranges mate :)


VomitOnLino(Posted 2011) [#4]
Mostly boring but often-run iterative functions, such as Randomization (Tweaked Brucey's Rnd), AI (Collisions) and some network-related things.

Nothing too extravagant as my C knowledge is so-so at best.
Basically did this as I didn't want to resort to arrays for my object keeping, but wanted to make up the 'lost' speed elsewhere.

The biggest gain comes from using native Open GL calls for the primitive geometry, though. As Blitz opens and closes the GL (context?) every time it draws something, which is dog slow.

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TomShep(Posted 2011) [#5]
That is really cool, I like the near miss bonus - thats a pretty cool concept!


John Cage(Posted 2011) [#6]
I like this kinda of games.


Dabhand(Posted 2011) [#7]
Yeah, looks good that! :)


Very nice Vomit much better than a basic card game.



lol... That surely should be contender of "Havent a clue what I'm on about" quote of the year! :D

Dabz