So a couple days ago I ran into a little roadblock. I had left all of my sprites in about 1000 X 1000 resolution, pretty much just for the heck of it. Well I just found out that the app wont launch if it has to load like 7 mb of asset data... wtf? A Lot if not most games made for psm have like 200 mb of asset data. :| Not cool. Anyway I'm dumbing down some of the uselessly large sprites to compensate for this. *sigh*

This doesn't really make much sense, because if it crashed because of out RAM, just no... The Ps Vita has ~600 Mb of RAM so there is no reason it couldn't load > 7 mb of data.
BTW this doesn't crash when loaded from a comp. If you were wondering.

Could have just been an error with a corrupted file or something cause when I removed a specific 3 pictures it stopped bugging...

Anyway huge update because I've changed a lot of how I do things now. I'm now giving all entities the ability to use a command/function/method, but use booleans for each to tell wether or not it can truly use them. VERY flexible. Lol.

Anyway finished the building menu and stepped on a couple bugs:

I hope the project doesn't seem dead, I started school.
Anyway I don't have a video right now cause my friends laptop doesn't have the right software I need, and I have already put enough stuff on this thing.
But i do have the audio to the new track for Abandoned. Check it out:

Been working on the contest so I put this on hold. X|

Anyway as for the sprites I'm going to reduce some of them, just to save on loading time.
The sprite size wasn't corrupting it or anything, it was just the new galaxy sprite I put in got corrupted. so I had to replace it.
No crashes now.

The problem was I couldn't figure out what was causing it to crash because I didn't put any try and catch's in. If I had put in a try and catch. I might have been able to tell myself using a console printing command that It was unable to load. I'll be sure to make use of them later.

So each Narkovid has a different number of eyes and legs ? Sounds fun !

Quick question!

What do you think I should add, I'm missing something for this RTS, I just know it...

I have.

Human Ships & Buildings

Constructor - The basic and only unit capable of building space stations. No attack, and low health, average move speed.


Frigate - The basic unit of attack. Average health, Average attack, Average speed.


Carrier - Able to Carry and build basic ships on the go, moves slow and has low attack but high health.


Mining Ship - Use for the sole purpose of resource production, can mine from asteroids, planets, and other dead ships. No attack, low health, Average speed.
(sprite unfinished)


Solar Ship - Produces energy by solar conversion of energy. No attack, low health, Average speed.
(sprite unfinished)


Fighter - A small ship mainly for hordes and bullet hell type strategy. Average attack, low health, fast speed. Loss of these are not significant.


Cruiser - A medium sized ship with multiple phasers High health, slow speed, but high attack.


Mobile Shield Ship - Produces a shield aura around the ship, temporarily taking damage for itself and ally's around it.


Bomber - A small ship that flies fast, but has low health and high attack.


Capitol Flag Ship - A huge ship capable of mass amounts of hanger bay storage, along with its massive missile, Gauss, and Phaser arrays. It moves slowly but has an extreme amount of health, and extreme attack, this behemoth is also capable of creating all other ships other than another Capitol Flag ship.
(base sprite/not finished)

Ya, knew I was missing something. got it.
gonna add the sprite.



So what about cost?
I'm not good at balancing costs at all...

Got any ideas?


EDIT: Just finished spriting some more ships. Please check the SHIPS post to see them.