Slayer wip

{cYan|de}

(Posted 2004) [#1]

lo, ive been working on converting my game Slayer to max the last evening or so, almost done! started on the shadows just now however i cant make them dynamic like the original until i add my player.

im using c.d.beans alien tiles for testing, the worklog can be found in my sig of course.

edited out - old pic -

btw this pic shows the text issue i posted about in the bug forum.

ImaginaryHuman

(Posted 2004) [#2]

Looks nice. Looks like AlienBreed. Looks ... square ? ;-)

{cYan|de}

(Posted 2004) [#3]

ahha well aye, that tileset is placeholder, and the level is pretty basic, the actual game is more of an fps from the top down, well its all in my log nehow:P

added the shadows back in now thou woot.

LarsG

(Posted 2004) [#4]

this looks cool.. kind of like alienbreed.. :)
this is a conversion from B3D to BlitzMax, right? Any chance of a little demo in the (near) future?

{cYan|de}

(Posted 2004) [#5]

hehe well the view is like alienbreed the tiles are going to be totally replaced soon i hope, the control is like an fps with the player looking towards the cursor (the camera is positioned between the cursor and player)

you are free to move in any direction while looking anywhere you like, so you can strafe, backup while fireing folwards etc etc, however the levels will be a survival based theme, hords of monsters porting in and you pretty much have to survive till the end of the map rounds.

should be a nice bit of carnage.

was quite suprised to see my dynamic shadows n all working on my p3 800 with not asmuch as 1 frame lost ever! (constant to my max refresh)

and i cant really stick up a demo as mark requested not to post exes.

LarsG

(Posted 2004) [#6]

aah.. I can imagine the controls like you explained.. it's similar to another game made in blitz, but I can't remember what it's called...
It's a shame you can't post a demo, but perhaps you can record an avi of it or something?!

{cYan|de}

(Posted 2004) [#7]

can give the recording stuff a shot, will edit this post with a link if it works.

Hotcakes

(Posted 2004) [#8]

you are free to move in any direction while looking anywhere you like, so you can strafe, backup while fireing folwards etc etc, however the levels will be a survival based theme, hords of monsters porting in

Cool, it sounds like Alien Breed as well ;]