BitRoamer Update-IV
BitRoamer Updates:
- Add healthbars to user and enemies
- Add visual effect to mobspawners. This will become more dynamic as development continues
BitRoamer Update-III
BitRoamer Updates:
- Add user healthbar
- add enemy healthbars
- add more mob spawners
Follow @Liquid_Software on Twitter
I noticed that we have had an increase in User accounts on this site. It made me think maybe I should get a twitter hooked up, so here it is!
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BitRoamer: Upcoming Features
Let’s list some of the things I have planned to implement in BitRoamer very soon. I generally try to plan based on “what can I get done tonight” It keeps development moving faster, and prevents me from getting overwhelmed or burnt out. I have a large backlog of other stuff to add, but I am prioritizing the stuff that makes this a game first. That means, penalties for bad actions and rewards for good actions.
- Enemies drop items that represent cash or credits
- 3 credits will let you place a “fence post”
- 2 fence posts make a wall (do you see where I am going with this)
- 2 credits will get you a widespread weapon: shotgun
- killing a mobspawner drops a special item that allows you to plob a mobAttractor.
- MobAttractor will act as a beacon that… attracts mobs and takes the heat off of you.
- If the player gets out of the range of the beacons attraction, the mob will start coming at you again
- Add some sort of penalty for the player taking a hit (reduction in health) and when the player dies put up the “Game over/Restart?” screen
- Add new healthbar
- 1 credit allows you to buy a healing item
Let me know what you think about the credit/buying system or anything else by signing up and leaving a comment on this webzone.
BitRoamer Update-II
New things added to BitRoamer:
Update 02:
- Enemy and player now have burst fire and reload mechanics.
- lowered enemy HP
- optimized renderer to fix framerate issue
- change play area to widescreen
- Removed old Top bar. will replace later
BitRoamer Update
I add some more features to BitRoamer:
Update 01:
- Enemy now faces target.
- Player marker follows mouse.
- Better centering of image data so that it corresponds to hitboxes
AS3 Physics Liquid and bitmap effects
This is also a cool thing I found in the past couple days that is related to my BitRoamer work. It’s related because they both render to bitmaps and use distortion effects, which I had just recently learned for the trail effects in BitRoamer. The technique demonstrated explains how 2D games have done such good water effects, like World Of Goo
http://www.patrickmatte.com/stuff/physicsLiquid/
AS3 Freeroam
This is an old project I worked on that is a 2D action shooter. Click the link to check it out
Atari Breakout
If you google image search ‘atari breakout’ and just let it sit there a moment it will do stuff.
Atari Breakout Google easter egg
I tried pulling the source, but it looks obstruficated.
Instead of the google source, heres an HTML5 example https://github.com/brayniverse/breakout
Planetside 2 Xbox 360 Controls
After a couple hours of flying in PS2 I’ve gotten my 360 controller layout to be really comfortable.
Get Joy2Key. http://www-en.jtksoft.net/
Use this config. http://liquid-software.com/PS2/PS2-Pilot.cfg
Here is the button layout (mapped by function). Most of the binds map to the default PS2 keys. If the controller doesn’t work like it should, check your mappings in joy2key and compare it to the mumble or PS2 bind. For instance, I added a mumble key of the ‘ character. Joy2key see’s that as something else but if it doesn’t work just set it yourself. To see what joypad keys are what in joy2key open the windows control panel and open usb gamepads, go to properties and press the physical button and see which one lights up on the screen.
