NOTE: You need the XNA Framework for this! One Wall! A game where you have only got one wall, and you have to survive as long as possible the horde of... (I don't know how it's called)
Controls: - Mouse to point and shoot - A & D to move up and down(which is useless but fun)
Surprisingly challenging. Pretty good overall. Could of course use a bit of polish and would have wanted more theme orientation somehow. But the one wall thing worked aswell. The wall was gone pretty fast though.
The file size was a lovely change from downloading 10MB a piece games here.
But here is some critique: - Do not quit the game on Escape without asking. - Movement in horizontal direction would have been nice, even if it would have had no impact on gameplay. - Some basic audio would have been nice. - Gameplay progression worked rather well.
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joppiesaus16 Dec 2013, 15:35
Yeah... it needed indeed some polishing, and sounds! I'd wish some new upgrades and stuff, and better gameplay. But next time better! Thanks for the opionions! :D
A tip I want to give you is adding some simple hit animations. A simple white frame and 2px knockback give a more solid feel to your bullet hits. Liked the game a lot!
Really difficult, but challenging. I thought "Lol, this car drove right past me" then I saw the game over screen :D The upgrades could be a little bit cheaper, to see progress faster. All in all nice work
The game was fun and I played it for quite a while over and over again because it was really difficult at first. Once I got the hang of it it was good though. The only big problem I saw was the lag. The farther I got in the game, the laggier the game got when I shot. But it was still very fun. Also, I fixed the link to my game so if you could try it, that would be awesome. Thanks!
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joppiesaus18 Dec 2013, 08:01
Super Hamster, you're right indeed! The lag and the difficulty is the biggest problem of the game. I may do a post-compo, with more stuff, better balancing and polishing, if people like it. Also, your game is fun too! and 01rafael, the framework, XNA, doesn't support web. :(
interesting, but i would have made the wall a bit more durable since it's what the whole idea seems to be based on. i also kind of expected the cars to explode and kill the enemies in its blast radius, but that's probably just me ;)
Fun small game. Got to the point where shooting caused my fps to drop like a stone, and from your source I can tell it's because each bullet check collusion with each enemy, and you spawn all the enemies right at the start so it gets heave to check all this collisions on the farther waves, try making a counter for how many more enemies you should spawn and decrease it with time, not all at once (you can't see the enemies anyway..)
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joppiesaus25 Dec 2013, 14:23
@Vladp995 I figured the same out! I should have coded it different like you said. However, in the collision code I have this piece: if (pos.X <= 0 - tex.Width) continue;
That means I tell your computer that if the enemy is not visible(the X-axis is out of screen) the computer should skip that. Which didn't fix any lag sadly. I figured that later out, I didn't had time in the compo. Thanks for the feedback thought! :D
My wall fell quite fast when the cars started coming, but I was surprised when that didn't end the game. Income felt quite slow, especially at the start, I would have liked to have some cheaper upgrades. I wasn't quite sure what bases did, even after I bought one. But it was pretty fun anyways.
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joppiesaus29 Dec 2013, 15:58
BluShine, the goal of the game is... keep the enemys as long as possible away from the right-hand side of your screen. A base will block them, it's a sort of wall, but then stronger. I made some mistakes indeed you mentioned there. I had to balance it more.
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The file size was a lovely change from downloading 10MB a piece games here.
But here is some critique:
- Do not quit the game on Escape without asking.
- Movement in horizontal direction would have been nice, even if it would have had no impact on gameplay.
- Some basic audio would have been nice.
- Gameplay progression worked rather well.
The upgrades could be a little bit cheaper, to see progress faster.
All in all nice work
and 01rafael, the framework, XNA, doesn't support web. :(
I figured the same out! I should have coded it different like you said. However, in the collision code I have this piece:
if (pos.X <= 0 - tex.Width) continue;
That means I tell your computer that if the enemy is not visible(the X-axis is out of screen) the computer should skip that.
Which didn't fix any lag sadly. I figured that later out, I didn't had time in the compo. Thanks for the feedback thought! :D
I made some mistakes indeed you mentioned there. I had to balance it more.