Now there's more !

I've finished implementing everything around the power releases system, that is, power absorption, storing and release. So let's get a quick look at it :

Basically, you build up power by absorbing bullets of your polarity. You can build up up to 120 power units at once, absorbing one bullet giving you one power unit. When you have at least 10 power units, you can execute a power release : your ship then fires one auto-guided power laser per ten of power units. That is, if you have 23 power units when releasing power, you will fire two power lasers ; if you have 109, you will release 10. After a power release, you lose all of your power units, regardless of the amount being divisible by 10 or not. To avoid wasting power units, you can see completed power slots (on the left of the screen) blinking, and the one that you're currently filling is not blinking.

A power laser (generated by a power release, opposed to a normal laser) is very fast and cannot miss its target, but since it goes straight to the enemy that is the nearest to it, it will break your chain easily. It's also very powerful as it inflicts 10 damages at once, and 20 to an enemy of the opposite polarity ! So it's particularly useful if you want to quickly clear a mess around you or badly hurt big enemies.

One clever thing to do is to kill big enemies with power lasers of their polarity ; that way when dying it will fire a lot of bullets back and you'll can quickly reload your power gauge.

And here's a demonstration of it working :



And here's the link for those who want to try : http://www.mirari.fr/eTV6

Beware though, I've changed commands to make it better-played on emulator :

Commands for this beta :

    CTRL : fire
    SHIFT : switch polarity
    DEL : release power
    arrows : move
    ESC : quit

Temporary debug commands:

    4 : enable touchpad (obviously, it only works with touchpad Nspires)
    5 : disable touchpad
    7 : enable background
    8 : disable background

The beta ends when all enemies are defeated or quitted the screen.

Enjoy and share your scores !

Wow, this looks REALLY good! I don't have an Nspire, but now I kinda wish I did.

You have earned one more internet...

This is looking amazing, i love the explosions and points. The laser looks cool, too, though it feels like it's just cut off at the end.

Bump,

nKaruga now has a startup menu where you can set up various things



And those things include custom keys



Keys default to CTRL to fire, SHIFT to switch polarity and DEL to release power, but if you modify them once, they are stored in a config file so you don't have to re-enter them anymore (you should move the config file along with nKaruga.tns if you move the latter to another directory).



I'm also thinking about storing the other settings in the config file, but I don't think it's really necessary. What do you think ?

A word about difficulties : there are 3 difficulties, Easy, Normal and Hard. The whole game is the same regardless of the difficulty, but there is a slight difference nonetheless :

• In Easy mode, there is no fire-back. You're free to kill any enemy with the polarity you want.
• In Normal mode, only enemies that are killed with weapons of their polarity fire back.
• In Hard mode, every enemy fires back. The only thing is that they fire only half of the intended bullets if you kill them with their opposite polarity.

While this doesn't look like much of a difference, just try beating what I've already coded of the level in Hard mode ... even if you can't get killed (for now), you'll quickly understand the real difficulty and if you don't, well, think that it's just level 1

Download demo : http://www.mirari.fr/eTV6

I said +300, not 300 Thanks anyway ! Also, about the config file ? Should I save everything in it or just the controls ?

Well I meant either this or to not store them at all but yeah, I'll store them anyway.

I like that option menu above. sadly I can't watch the other screenshot, though, since Tapatalk doesn't play most animated GIFs so I'll try to watch it at home.

Progress : you can die now Isn't that marvelous ?



http://www.mirari.fr/eTV6

I still have to display remaining lives though.