Looks pretty good. Are you using the same control scheme as penguin's? Are you going to make this a clone of penguin's or just your own version of geo wars.

Either way, good work so far

I don't know, I couldn't test thepenguin77's version

For now, it's the square of keys around 5 to move, and the one around x,t,Θ,n to fire.

My goal is to do my own Geometry Wars, but since there isn't two games like this one, it'll be hard to do two really different ports.

@Vijfhoek : I don't know much things in trollfaces, so I picked up the wrong one changing it

Too late, I changed it to another one

Also, if you think of a better keyconf, just share it.

in France the 83+.Fr was quite popular it seems and over where I live many stores (Future Shop, Best Buy, Zellers, The Source) only carry the 83+.

That would be great if true, but it is worse. Most French people buy 82 Stats.fr
However, it is true that there are a lot more 83+ than 84+ here

Quote from: DJ_O on November 04, 2012, 01:56:14 pm

in France the 83+.Fr was quite popular it seems and over where I live many stores (Future Shop, Best Buy, Zellers, The Source) only carry the 83+.

That would be great if true, but it is worse. Most French people buy 82 Stats.fr
However, it is true that there are a lot more 83+ than 84+ here

That sucks X.x, although I guess that since it's cheaper then it can be understood. I kinda wish that over here there was a cheaper alternative to the 83+ like the 82 Stats because not every parent can afford $130+ for a calculator.

I wonder how hard it would be to make that game for the 82 Stats, seeing how Jetpack8x was ported to that calc despite being made in Axe? (IIRC, you disassembled the code then changed stuff so it runs on a 83/82 Stats?)

I searched for Geometry Wars on Ti-Calc, and found the one of thepenguin77. Then I downloaded it and ...

Quote from: thepenguin77

Only for 84+, sorry.

Tehe

Anyways, since you have 1/3 of the power, you're probably going to have to use 1/3 of the calculations. After my later updates (with super optimizing and partitioning) geometry wars started to lag at about 70 enemies (especially 70 dodging enemies). I usually estimate that while playing geometry wars, there are about 30 bullets on screen at any one time. This means 2,100 bullet-enemy collision checks per frame. I also ran the game at 30 fps. So I was pulling off a massive 63,000 bullet-enemy collision checks per frame. This means you should shoot for about 20,000 checks per frame (assuming you can match my detection speed )

Since I've already thought about this, here's what it looks like to decrease each variable:

• Enemies - this one is straight forward, take out enemies (at the cost of an easier game)
• Bullets - you can either decrease the rate of fire (which will make people hate you), or make the map smaller so they hit the edges quicker
• FPS - You're probably thinking that 30fps is really fast, but I'll tell you that the game needed that. When I used 15 fps, bullets would often travel right through enemies. This meant that if you tried to bulldoze the enemies, typically, one of the little squares would squeak past and kill you.

My suggestion would be to use a smaller map with more enemies and keep a high fps. This I believe would lead to the highest quality of gameplay on an 83+.

But, good luck

Update !

I've added two enemies types, now you have to destroy them I've also done the particle explosion when you destroy an enemy



And why not release it ? Then you'll see that the screenshot is much slower than the game on-calc prgmAXOMETRY is the executable (I wasted 19 bytes with Buff(19) only to make it exactly 4000 bytes ) and appvGeoMap1 is the level you have to put in RAM.

The controls are :

Move :
     8
4        6
     2

Shoot :

         mode
alpha           stat
         apps