Well, I'm on a phone right now, so if you don't want to wait until tomorrow evening of my time (in 20 hours) ask ben_g.

Bump,

Just saying that if you want, you can mock-up some patterns that you would want to see implemented in one boss or another you can also give me ideas of enemies, because I'm terrible at imagining them.

I'm working on my entry ò_ó

I planned an upgrade at the beginning of each level, so you'll see soon

I have a problem with the last weapons though. Since I check collisions with every active enemy for each bullet, it kinda slows down the game when you shoot too much bullets at a time (the very last weapon shoots 6 bullets at once). I'll try to optimize.

I'm doing it in Axe and I already explained why I used a rectangle. And yeah, I erase plotSScreen every frame. And yeah I planned to make the ship blink.

And yeah xD the first level is hard, but now you have 3 lives

Update !

Got the second level working with of course new enemies and another boss to beat

I also made a quick and ugly lives system : when you get hit, you can't be hit again for 64 frames (you see that with an inverting rectangle on your ship, not definitive). You can also pause with [alpha] (and resume with [x,t,θ,n]) and thus see your lives in the upper right corner.

Small almost-non-spoiling screenshot of the 2nd level :



The game is of course faster and not as ugly on-calc.

Binaries attached

I can provide a backspace routine from cmdOS if you want, it's OS-independant

Big update !

I've got most of then engines used by this type of games done ! By that, I mean a bullets engine, an enemies engine, a patterns engine and, big news, a boss engine ! Though, I had to remove the bullets' ability to have their own behaviour to keep a good speed at 6MHz.
What's remain now is a bonuses engine, a continue system, and of course everything related to menus. Most of the game core is done, but I only did a full level with its boss, so I need to take care of the 15 other levels and bosses (with my newly-founded team ).

Anyway, eye candy time ! To not spoil the level if you want to try it, I just attached non-animated screenshots

If you want to beat level 1 ... try to do so with the attached program (for MirageOS, and you'll also need prgmIKRGLVLS, it contains the level).

Controls are explained in-game in the tutorial at the start of the game. You can skip it by pressing [×]. For now, the game quits when you get hit, so it's very hard to make it through the level (which only lasts 4 waves) and to beat the boss (which has 192 HP and 3 patterns ). On your ship's sprite, you can see a small 'T'-like thing. Congrats, you found your hitbox

Also, the program runs perfectly (while sometimes a bit slowly) on 6MHz calcs. It doesn't use Full anyway.