[Construct2] Hovertank shmup - Playable in browser
polycounter lvl 7
Finally made a thread for this.
Playable in browser at:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16993876/Game7/index.html
Updates:
- Rockets!
- Rockets!!
- Rockets!!!
- Camera shake (more is more)
- Low-health warning system
- roadkill support
Todo:
- Things that are less funny and tend not to get done.
old posts in WAYWO:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1780145&postcount=2417
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1783488&postcount=2662
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1793603&postcount=3274
Playable in browser at:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16993876/Game7/index.html
Updates:
- Rockets!
- Rockets!!
- Rockets!!!
- Camera shake (more is more)
- Low-health warning system
- roadkill support
Todo:
- Things that are less funny and tend not to get done.
old posts in WAYWO:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1780145&postcount=2417
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1783488&postcount=2662
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1793603&postcount=3274
Replies
Out of curiosity, how difficult are you finding it to keep a project like this organized? I'm plugging away on my platformer and although I'm not that far into it, it's starting to get a little hairy. I decided to add the ability to crouch yesterday, and I was ready to throw the entire project out :P
The game stands on it's own already, but here's a few suggestions:
Would like a way to tell where my mortars are going to hit. The slowdown is nice, but it feels too long or too slow? Also, I'm sure you're getting to it, but it needs that title screen/gameover screen treatment.
brb playin again.
It is actually represented in the UI, but if you dont see it, ill just have to make it clearer..
It is quite tricky to keep things organized, but I dont think thats as much an issue with C2 as with making games in general. But I use separate event sheets for separate features an try and put things in well labeld event groups.
Oh, and also, I got the plugin "function" wich basically lets you setup and call functions, thus greatly slimming down your "code"
About the mortars: Yes, they are quite tricky. Ive been thinking of implementing upgrades, and one of them could be a target indicator for the mortars. Also, ive been thinking of changing the mortar throwing system so that you fling away them with the kinetic force of the hovertank. Testing will tell.
As for menues, they pretty much fall in to the todo category of "Things that are less funny and tend not to get done". But yeah, eventually..
Thanks man. Thats been one of my goals from the getgo. I chose to make them poor in detail so that i could make them rich in animation and behaviour instead. Im glad that shows.
Again, to all of you, tanks for the kind words.
playable in browser at:
http://www.oskarstalberg.com/game/hovertank08/index.html
(i moved the hosting, since DB wasn't working very well)
Updates:
- Completely revised UI
- Distortion blast waves for explosions
- A little better roadkills
- achievements for killing enemies in new ways.
Todo:
- unclear.
The game doesn't appear to be working for me
I changed the hosting from Dropbox to my homepage. It should work better now.
fixed and playing
1. Did you easily understand how grenade-throwing works (including how far you throw them)?
2. Did you understand how tesla grenades work, and how its determined when you throw them?
3. Did you easily understand the "achievment badges" in the boddom-right corner, and how many of them did you get?
Q1: yes, but is a hard to fire in those fortress ! in my opinion u could define a marker for grenade launcher, something like grenade luchers marker in gears of war !
Q2: i guess how it works, tesla grenade is a magnatinc grenade where it hits the ground it will effects nearby enemies, the best way to use them is to shoot them in short range ! i hope i am right !
Sometimes i want to save my tesla grenades for a specific time but its really hard to do that, for example when too many enemy launchers are aiming ! i know that collecting the grenades allows me to storage 4 tesla grenade but it get mixes by normal grenade and makes it really hard to use them in times that i want use them ! in my opinion u can define a specific key (Middle Mouse Button) for launching tesla grenade !
Q3: yes i did . i wasnt able to earn all those achievement badges.
Thanks. I'm glad to hear that people are enjoying it. As for the intern-thing, I'm actually done with my internship as of this week and start as an employee on tuesday. My position at Massive is technical artist, so its nice to do some less technical stuff such as art, animation and design for this project (altough I can't help but write a few shaders in the process).
anyway, I got destroyed by 2 rockets, and after that I should have re-spawned but nothing happened. the meter's reacted to what I was doing, firing and lobbing grenades. but it had no effect on the enemies, and the tank wasn't visible on screen.
Wow, I thought my current leveldesign would last about 3 minuites, so thats cool.
it's actually not really a texture, but more of a solid color. I'm thinking of adding some environment art, but a tiling ground texture would not be a part of it. Simply because it would either be samll and thus tile very obviously or big and thus take too many bytes.
thats not as much of a bug as a feature not yet added. Currently, nothing happens when you die. needles to say, that will eventually be fixed.
I'm sorry to say that that will not happen. Some people don't like the current controls, but some people do (incuding me) and they are an important part of the originality of the game. I have to keep the game design tight and within one vision, and I can't do that while maintaining two separate control-systems.
By the way: Would you recommend Construct for someone that's completely new to coding? I've just started to learn to make my own games and trying to get used to javascript and Unity. I guess Construct's "visual scripting" approach is great for beginners? Any thoughts?
I would defenitly recommend Construct2 for someone thats new to coding. Its way simpler than javascript and unity. Although I knew some code and a lot of game logic before I started working with C2, I used The Games Factory before that when I was a kid and it has allmost the exact same structure as C2, and that was very easy to lern.
Playable in browser at:
oskarstalberg.com/game/hovertank09/index.html
Update
- Start Menu
- Pause (press P or Pause)
- Graph of score progression (shown when paused)
- Some minor things
- Extended the level design to have content troughout the level
Todo
- Death, upgrades, or a new enemy
Minor update. I wont even bother with a screenshot.
oskarstalberg.com/game/hovertank11/index.html
Changes:
- Pathfinding for enemy infantry
- Enhanced achievement badges
Great work on the visuals, especially the effects and attention to detail. Some sound effects and a nice background tune would really complete the circle.
Playable in browser at:
http://oskarstalberg.com/game/hovertank12/index.html
I was gonna do a bunch of cool stuff, but since y'all was whining about not dying properly I went ahead and fixed that instead.
Changes:
- Highscore(!!!!) Go climb that leaderboard!!!!
- Game Over!
- Tesla now occasionaly leap from soldier to solider.
Todo:
- Develop reliable hard surface pipeline
Btw how you made the explosions and muzzle flashes to look so good?It's not hand painted i guess?
Actually they are 100% hand painted. It took me a while to figure out the best workflow and I tried a bunch of stuff before I got there. Now I just paint them frame by frame in photoshop and use the PS timeline to preview. I use layer styles for the shading, so that all I have to paint is a silhouette. Plus they are like 8 - 14 frames each, so they're quick to redo if I'm not satisfied.
oh, and thanks for the compliments.
Update!
Just a small update. no screenshot
Playable in browser at:
http://oskarstalberg.com/game/HovertankGame/index.html
Changes:
- Made the game easier.
- Made tesla grenades better and cooler.
- Tweaked soldier movement.
- Replaced hovertank art (though this is NOT final)
- Started uninevitable score inflation (so go climb that leaderboard!)
So is there a way to choose between the electrical grenade and the explosive one? Not sure when the blue one is being thrown.
Nice work man!!!
thanks! I've seen you on the scoreboard!
No, there is no way to chose, but you can see wich one is up next by looking at the mortar ammo queue just above the machinegun heat bar. When you pick up a tesla-grenade, its added to the back of that ammo queue.
It's all created in the awesome game engine Construct2, that outputs html5 and javascrip (I'm not entirely sure how everything works). I really recommend checking out C2 if your intrested in making 2d games super fast and easy.
oh and, BOSS FIGHTS!!!
Game crashes when i get to a certain point. Running in Google chrome.
Got a high score as well
14692! and i was going strong.
That's a shame. Do you have any idea of why it might have crash? Did you get an error message? Is it reproducable?