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Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on July 13, 2006, 03:59:00 pm

Galactic is a person against the CPU space fighter. This place is where you post any ideas of what you think Galactic should include.

Here is a list of already included things:
Grayscale intro
Cool GUI
Grayscale sprites
4 enemys
Highscore counter
Menu

***Galactic Release date is set for August 10th***

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 14, 2006, 10:55:00 am

wow grayscale, will this be for the SE/84+ or both regular 83+/SE?

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on July 14, 2006, 11:12:00 am

Yea man idk cause it might be good enough to run on the 83+ because it goes at 18 fps on the 84+ and thats not even the SE so I'm thinking that I might port it or something like that.

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 15, 2006, 09:45:00 am

18 fps??????????? O_O

thats like 6x the speed of Metroid II on my SE o.o

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on July 15, 2006, 09:47:00 am

Yea dude so far I have only used one IF then statement in all my coding for Galactic.

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 15, 2006, 09:57:00 am

hehe lol XD

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on July 15, 2006, 10:16:00 am

GALACTIC CONTEST(had to put it in caps so people would notice)

If you can guess the boss of this game then you will win a prize. THe prize is that you will recieve a copy of all the games I make from now until a die a week before it is realesed on omnimaga,ticalc.org, or even my site or to my friends. You can only ask yes or no questions that I will answer and a hint is that the boss is a famous space fighter.

Title: Galactic
Post by: Dragon__lance on July 19, 2006, 01:29:00 pm

Is it a character for GC/Xbox/Ps2? and sweet project! how will the shooting work? :)

Title: Galactic
Post by: katmaster on July 21, 2006, 02:44:00 pm

This looks coolz. Don't feel bad if you don't get it done by your set release date though. We all understand :)

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 04, 2006, 09:17:00 am

Yea i cant get it done by then cause camp was a total burn they confiscated my calculator for the whole three weeks and also you push up to shoot but only one of your guns works because the other one is broken

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 04, 2006, 09:47:00 am

ouch that sucks, did you had some fun at least tho :(

Title: Galactic
Post by: bfr on August 04, 2006, 12:13:00 pm

QuoteBegin-Killerplayer+Aug 4 2006, 03:17 PM-->

QUOTE (Killerplayer @ Aug 4 2006, 03:17 PM)

This project looks great. I hope this get finished :)

Title: Galactic
Post by: katmaster on August 04, 2006, 03:35:00 pm

Don't worry, I was gone for 2 weeks for camps too. Take your time. The best projects take time (unless your xlibman, then you can finish them in like 3 days and they still rock :)

)

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 05, 2006, 12:57:00 am

QuoteBegin-katmaster+Aug 4 2006, 10:35 PM-->

QUOTE (katmaster @ Aug 4 2006, 10:35 PM)

(unless your xlibman, then you can finish them in like 3 days and they still rock :)

)

(uhm yeah about that when I start I can't stop >.< )

Title: Galactic
Post by: katmaster on August 08, 2006, 05:27:00 pm

I wish I had that kind of time and motivation.

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 09, 2006, 02:07:00 am

well i have full time job as well I mostly do it when I have free time, but often I dont even do anything it really go with motivation

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 09, 2006, 02:04:00 pm

Ok so I hate the idea of following the same path as my original Galactic so I threw away all my ideas and totally revamped the game. It's now gonna be an rpg space type solving game. I have been working on it for five days already and I already have tiles,sprites,intro,storyline,menu,scrolling engine,matrix compressor and decompressor. Right now I am working on NPC's and a lot of algorithms for different parts of the game.

EDIT: Also I'm looking for a co-programmer not just someone who helps with code snippets but an actual programmer who does the serious stuff like me. I have the game already well documented so you could probaly jump right into it. It's in BASIC with Xlib.

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 11, 2006, 05:18:00 pm

Got a bunch of detection routines in the game. At the rate im traveling now I think I could finish within like a week or a week and a half. I got a 5 hour car drive tommorow yeaaaaaaaa.

Title: Galactic
Post by: Dragon__lance on August 12, 2006, 04:05:00 am

wow,your working at xlibman's speed XD

Great work,can't wait to see some screenies!Is there gonna be a storyline?

Title: Galactic
Post by: katmaster on August 12, 2006, 09:59:00 am

Oooh 5 hour car drive. Have fun!

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 12, 2006, 05:55:00 pm

Yes there is a storyline an in depth storyline that runs the whole game.

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 12, 2006, 06:07:00 pm

Idk im having trouble with the NPC's though :(

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 13, 2006, 10:28:00 am

QuoteBegin-Dragon__lance+Aug 12 2006, 11:05 AM-->

QUOTE (Dragon__lance @ Aug 12 2006, 11:05 AM)

wow,your working at xlibman's speed XD

Great work,can't wait to see some screenies!Is there gonna be a storyline?

well the problem is that when I start coding I cant stop :paf:

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 13, 2006, 03:53:00 pm

That's so hard for me not to stop because when I'm stuck on something I just throw the calculator(overdramatic), but if I'm getting somewhere then yea ill keep going until I die but that usually never happens.

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 14, 2006, 03:31:00 am

lol like me ._.

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 14, 2006, 05:50:00 am

O yea i got the NPC routine done and then engine still runs fast, also got the text parser done for the NPC's so i can write their text into strings then parse it

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 14, 2006, 05:59:00 am

glad you got it to work! does the npc move around or stay at the same place all the time? i cant wait to see it in action

Title: Galactic
Post by: Dragon__lance on August 14, 2006, 02:51:00 pm

me too! Screenie! Screenie! :D

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 14, 2006, 05:58:00 pm

yea im have both moving and standing still its just a matter of changing the list which is easy but I can't get an animated screenshot because I am using calccapture and Tilem because i have an 84+, but anyways i cant find a good cap interval to gif interval ratio so my screenshots suck

Title: Galactic
Post by: Dragon__lance on August 15, 2006, 03:59:00 am

If you send me a copy, I'll take a screenie for you :D

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 15, 2006, 10:07:00 am

I cant wait

btw I usually use 50 for capture interval and 100 for gif interval, if it goes too slow or too fast use 100 for capture interval and 200 for gif interval (less CPU intensive). If you have grayscale its not very good looking in TilEm tho but its still cool anyway

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 15, 2006, 03:42:00 pm

Thanks

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 26, 2006, 09:50:00 am

UPDATE:
-Currently I am really stuck on making my fighting engine
-I have optimized about like 65% of my programs
-Got a pause menu fully working

Title: Galactic
Post by: bfr on August 26, 2006, 11:51:00 am

Good progress! I hope you get the fighting engine finished. This looks like it's going to be great!

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 26, 2006, 01:18:00 pm

sound cool, feel free to post code if you need help optimising it ;)

Title: Galactic
Post by: katmaster on August 27, 2006, 03:18:00 am

Yups. This is looking great btw!

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 28, 2006, 03:08:00 pm

Bad news: My old engine got erased
Bad news: Spent the whole day making a new one
Bad news: Found the old engine on my comp after I made the new one
Good news: The new one is faster with the Xlib getkey not TI-OS

So later on I will post some screenies showing the difference in speed

Title: Galactic
Post by: katmaster on August 28, 2006, 06:53:00 pm

Wow, lotsa work. Cool that it's faster though.

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 29, 2006, 10:28:00 am

too bad this had to happen :(

at least I,m glad you got it done again

Title: Galactic
Post by: katmaster on August 29, 2006, 11:24:00 am

At least something good came from it.

Title: Galactic
Post by: kalan_vod on August 29, 2006, 11:38:00 am

Yeah, and I find xLIB to be quicker than that of the OS.

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 29, 2006, 01:20:00 pm

@kalan Yes it is faster but it can not be used with a While statement like
real(8
Ans->K
While K!=0
...so on...

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 29, 2006, 01:21:00 pm

very true, and it may stop moving twice all the time when pressing the key for more than one picosecond

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 29, 2006, 01:24:00 pm

yea that's another thing that I hate about the the xlib getkey I think it is because it uses "getcsc" or however you spell it instead of "getkey"

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 29, 2006, 01:27:00 pm

key detecxtion can be a lil slower on xlib getkey, it allow more possibility tho. it use direct input actually, but I dunno what is the routine

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on August 31, 2006, 03:06:00 pm

I need help because this routine doesn't work i need a routine the returns zero if C or D or E or F not equal to zero and return zero if G!=8 or 80 or H!=8 or 48. Heres my code that doesnt work. I need it to return one only when both are right

(((G=8 or G=80) or (H=8 or H=48)) and (C or D or E or F=12))

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on September 01, 2006, 08:51:00 am

Also on another note the game is basically done except for one problem I have about 15-180 maps to make and interface them all together with hooking and stuff for program scrolling so if anyone would be interested in helping me develop some levels that would be great. I have made my own mapmaker already with an extensive set of about 94 tiles that you could use.

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on September 12, 2006, 11:36:00 am

I got this sweet AI that is fairly simple and never depends on the coordinate's of the player or it never just moves around randomly. The AI is based on a sight routine that I made that I'm looking to edit in the future but for now will work. Also the AI will look for a position to hide if it becomes badly hurt.

Title: Galactic
Post by: Dragon__lance on September 12, 2006, 03:13:00 pm

cool, screenie! :D

That sounds very advanced, how fast does it run?

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 13, 2006, 01:07:00 am

wow I missed this topic, nice to see this progressing. How many maps do you have so far?

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on September 13, 2006, 11:11:00 am

it runs fairly fast becuase i dedicated a whole section of this game to a fighting engine lol its not just a modded regular engine. And I have 37 maps done right now.

Title: Galactic
Post by: elfprince13 on September 13, 2006, 11:26:00 am

excellent, keep up the good work

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 13, 2006, 02:24:00 pm

cool to hear, any chance of seeing a new screenie soon?

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on September 14, 2006, 09:09:00 am

no srry xlibman but I have too much hw and my parents getting on me about all this crap that is so annoying but there might be idk depends on how I feel

Title: Galactic
Post by: ryantmer on September 14, 2006, 11:29:00 am

This is a sweet looking game... Seeing all this stuff really makes me want to get back into programming, but I never have any good ideas and I don't know whether to learn assembly or just expand my BASIC-ness (as opposed to l33t-ness) <.<

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 15, 2006, 10:42:00 am

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Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on September 19, 2006, 09:28:00 am

wtf does that mean?

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 20, 2006, 01:14:00 am

lol its leetspeak (a language better than english (j/k)) it means you shall fear the power of ti basic

Title: Galactic
Post by: katmaster on September 20, 2006, 11:58:00 am

Hacker slang. Mmmm tasty.

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 20, 2006, 12:38:00 pm

providing you dont actually hack, illegally

Title: Galactic
Post by: Halifax on September 23, 2006, 10:43:00 am

I'm sorry to say but I'm shutting down Galactic and moving on to work on an RPG called Eve of the Afternoon. I have learned some things about myself though while creating Galactic. Anyways I'm shutting it down cause personally I think Galactic sucks and the motivation to output that code when I don't like it is not there.

EDIT: Can an admin please shutdown this forum topic

Title: Galactic
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 23, 2006, 04:18:00 pm

I'm sorry to hear this I'll delete it when I have time :(

, so many projects dying recently :(