I've been saying for a while that I'd make a physics platformer shmup.  Well, I've finally gotten it off the ground, and figured it's about time to make a thread for it.

As of now the only thing that works properly is the movement engine (and that to an extent)

When any of the fire keys (keys forming a square around [apps]) are pressed the program crashes soon after, I think that's b/c of a list being written to wrong, making zero items to 65535 and causing random spots in mem being written to..


Anyway, a screenie showing the somewhat-complete movement engine and the character's running animation.
Also I attached the source, in case anyone wants to test it.  There's an etherpad showing the source: http://piratepad.net/gSHUMP

Attached things..prgmWAT is the compiled program, other three are source.  (select prgmSGSHUMP in compile menu)
Made with Axe 1.0.3.

EDIT: re-uploaded compiled prog, something was left out


Update here

This looks pretty cool.  Nice job, Darl.

Got it to work over last night, with help from runer and leafy in the etherpad
(Turns out it was just the loops needing the offset, the copy() in gside was fine )

Also updated the pad.  Was able to completely re-do gshoot so it now works while an arrow key is being held (it didn't before, b/c getkey?# was used)
WAT03 is executable, source is zipped.

I'm starting to think up some plans for this...maybe a remake of the old Duel on the side..
The AI thread was for this project, I might be bumping that sometime soon.

First things first, tho, I've put in a limit to how many bullets could be out at a time (also limited the fire rate, it's now half of the rate in this screenie ), but it whould be kind of hard to top ~75 bullets at once..
Soon to come is the platformer aspect, actual gravity and maps and such.

EDIT I've been thinking of an alternate title.. how does "Essence" sound?

EDIT:

so I can play metal-slug-like game in calc soon? cool!

Do you mean Metal slug like this?
That's not exactly what I'm going for, tho it's an idea...

Btw got it somewhat working with a map, gravity and such.  Working on a second weapon type.

Nethapult ftw

*UPDATE TIME*
I don't feel like making a huge post wall describing stuff, plus it's school lunch so I don't have the time, so see screenies

There are some buggy things, such as how you can hold down multiple fire buttons at once and multiple forces are applied to the bullet (making things like stationary plasma or fast-moving bouncers possible, enjoy it while it lasts b/c I have an idea how to solve it)
(also if you pause in-game the mode menu is displayed fsr, lingering keypress or something idk)

WAT is still exec, source is zipped.
Also, the pad has been updated with the latest source (tho it's full of the weird stuff sourcecoder injects, but it's in there)

controls: arrow keys move, keys around apps shoot, apps scrol through weapons, F1-F5 select weapon, mode pause, clear quit.

EDIT forgot to upload map outside of zip.  Level needs to be in archive.

 
I was just about to make something like this, (contra remake) then you show up and make one that's better then I even imagined for mine!!!
 
DAMNIT!!!


*Brooding*


Anyway, since you crushed my dreams, I might as well show you what I was planning. It is a really cool animation for a machine gun. (At least better than dots(No offence)(Attached)) You could store the levels externally, allowing users to make their own levels, etc.

Anyway, my machine gun is extremely slow as it is in basic, but you can get the idea of how to make it look cool like that.

 

Well, you could still make a run 'n gun type of thing, doesn't have to be Contra (I'm not doing Contra anyway, Deep Thought's already doing it ), there's plenty out there

I'm not sure if I'm going to try to port something with this, prolly just make it up as I go


And that would work pretty well for a machine gun (or lazar maybe? ) but I'd have to make some pre-calculation process to see where it would hit player, map or side of screen and would cause a noticeable lag (prolly something like what Pixel Fury causes)
Tho if done right, it could work...

Thanks for the feedback! I am not actually upset that you are making a run and gun, (everybody is), I am upset because I recently learned that everybody is. So, the machine gun program is attached. It shoots with random lines from one point, so if you make the y displacement equal on both sides, it would look more like a dragonball z laser and less like your cannon thing slowed down (spread vs thick line). If that is confusing, I will update this post later with a gif of the idea, and an 8xp.
Suggestion for plasma cannon: Make the circle it draws filled white.

P.S. How were you able to update this from school lunch?